OPINIONS

Sun 01 Jun 2025 9:10 am - Jerusalem Time

Anticipation... Will Witkoff's proposal succeed?

Baha Rahal

This is everyone's question: Will Witkoff's proposal be accepted and approved, thus halting the war? Or will it fail, leaving us stuck in the same cycle, waiting for another proposal while the war of extermination, along with the bombing and killing, continues?
American attempts so far have not risen to the desired level. As everyone knows, America is capable of halting the genocide if it truly wanted to, but to date, it has not exerted sufficient pressure to reach an agreement. What we see from Witkoff's attempts is nothing more than dust in the eyes, and the hesitation and lack of serious and effective pressure we are witnessing is nothing more than confirmation of American bias. In light of this, the question arises: Why has the Trump administration not yet imposed a halt to the genocide by force? It is capable of doing so, but it is not.
The alignment of the US position with that of the Netanyahu government, their shared desire to implement the voluntary displacement Trump spoke of, and their hope of controlling the Gaza Strip, is what underlies Witkoff's proposals, particularly regarding the lack of real, serious, and rapid pressure to halt the genocide.
If the Trump administration wanted to stop the war, it would have done so, but it is not serious about it yet. It is playing a "game of proposals" to give the occupation enough time to continue its massacres in Gaza, which it has been perpetrating for more than 600 days.
The game of propositions to the stomachs of starving people is another form of war, a vulgar mask in light of the ongoing killing and the spread of epidemics, amidst the difficult reality of the situation amidst the rubble, destruction, and bombing.
This toying with proposals does not reflect cunning coming from a superpower like the United States, but rather an unprecedented moral decadence. Because we know that if America wanted to stop the massacre, it would have done so. But it is stalling, delaying, and giving the occupation government more time to commit massacres.
Amid this difficult reality, relying on fair and impartial American proposals in favor of the occupation seems illogical, given the Trump administration's blind bias and full support for the occupation government.
Therefore, we find Witkoff's proposals unserious, and they carry within them the ideas of an entity that refuses to end the genocide, withdraw from the Gaza Strip, open the crossings, and lift the siege. Ultimately, the biased American position is an extension of the state of complicity in the war of extermination, and relying on an American position that carries fair ideas is unattainable. Therefore, necessity alone dictates these days the cessation of the bombing, the cessation of the killing, and the entry of aid to prevent the catastrophe of mass death by starvation.

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The alignment of the US position with that of the Netanyahu government, their shared desire to implement the voluntary displacement of which Trump spoke, and their hope of controlling the Gaza Strip, is what underlies Witkoff's proposals.


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