In a follow-up to his bestselling book, ‘Catastrophe Nakba II’, writer Fintan Drury has released ‘Genocide: the Destruction of Palestine’’.

In it, he focuses on how the United States and the UK stand accused of directly influencing the scale of the terror Israel has wreaked on Palestine and its people. Drury is unequivocal that it’s their direct sponsorship and that of some others which made Israel’s ongoing genocide possible…

THE MOTIVATION WASN’T to ease or even erase past trauma. This concerned how those involved in brokering and supporting the process could help ensure its sustainability and benefit from their efforts. There was to be no hiding what this was about, no subtlety. ‘So I hope everybody’s now joining up. Now we have no excuses. We don’t have a Gaza, and we don’t have Iran as an excuse. That was a good excuse.’

It wasn’t a mistake, a clumsy off-script remark. This stunning comment was written down. ‘We don’t have a Gaza’ meant that this ravaged place, home to two million Palestinians, would no longer be an obstacle to whatever scheme Trump and his allies would decide upon.

His intentions were laid bare; the moment when any small hope that humanity was a fragment of his motivation evaporated. In history, there have been opaque peace agreements drafted to hide the real intentions. This one did not have that failing; there was no attempt to conceal that commerce was the plan’s primary driver.

President Trump wanted to assure the nations whose support he needed that, as the plan’s originator, he could guarantee it would yield them a meaningful return. He said the participation of the four signatories to the agreement was on that basis, and that others could become involved if they chose to do so. Unsaid, it was safe to assume Israel would be a big part of the plan.

Trump’s ignorance or indifference to facts has rarely been so manifest. That the land belonged to Palestine didn’t matter........

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