U.S. Names Gaza Leaders, Forgetting They Just Bombed the Old Ones
A new 'Palestinian committee' has met in Cairo, with its leader Ali Shaath pledging speedy recovery under 'U.S. supervision.' The AP article (from which this information is sourced) paints this as a hopeful step forward, a 'two-year war' (not a genocide, mind you) ending with Israeli troops 'withdrawing from parts of Gaza.' What the report conveniently skips is that 'U.S. supervision' has
consistently undermined Palestinian self-determination, often installing figureheads amenable to Israeli security demands. This isn't the first time an external power has dictated Gaza's future. For years, the U.S. has pressured the Palestinian Authority to take administrative control of Gaza, while simultaneously hindering any actual unity government that includes Hamas, even after democratic
elections. The very idea of a 'committee' chosen by outside forces, rather than by the besieged people of Gaza, echoes a colonial playbook. One might wonder: how many 'next steps' until Palestinians get to decide their own steps?