US Backs Division of Gaza, Calls it 'Peacekeeping'
Al Jazeera reports that the US appears to endorse a plan to bifurcate Gaza, creating 'alternative safe communities' in the south while the north comes under Israeli oversight and reconstruction. This isn't just 'dividing Gaza'; it's formalizing a protracted displacement, a page straight from the 1948 Nakba playbook. We've seen this before: 'temporary' refugee camps become permanent, and
'reconstruction' efforts conveniently cement new territorial realities. This 'diplomacy' isn't about peace; it's about managing a humanitarian disaster of their own making to redraw maps. The language is always so pristine, isn't it? 'Safe communities' (for whom?) and 'rebuilding' (whose homes?). One might wonder if the architects of this plan will consult the 2.3 million people living there, or
if their consent is just another inconvenient detail to be 'managed' by the international community. How many plans to 'manage' Palestinian lives must we endure before we call it what it is: ongoing dispossession?