While popular support for Palestine has grown to unprecedented levels on the back of the anti-genocide movement, the solidarity movement’s job is not yet done.

Right now, it has to fight for unhindered aid to Gaza, for what South African ex-United Nations official Jonathan Whittall has called “Palestinian-led reconstruction”, for boycott, divestments and sanctions against the settler-colonial state of Israel and, most of all, for Palestinian self-determination.

This is because the imperial institutions with power are aligning more closely to suppress Palestinian sovereignty. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on November 17 that endorsed United States President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza.

While the latest plan is not the bizarre “Riviera of the Middle East” proposal, it does include the same billionaire mega-project reconstruction logic that Gaza is “a blank sheet”.

As Tony Karon pointed out, from the colonial-era British Mandate through to the Zionist settler-colonial state of Israel, those in power have always insisted that Palestinians cannot rule themselves.

Jonathan Cook said UN Resolution 2803 makes “Trump the debauched feudal overlord of Gaza”. It means that “oversight of the system of control........

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