A permanent concentration camp – America’s plans for Gaza and beyond

Alameen Templeton

Like mad Israeli generals plotting another cunning plan to massacre women and children, America’s politicians are grandstanding a “democratic plan” for Gaza that ensures the enclave never enjoys democracy.

It’s being sold in the cold halls of Congress as America’s “Mega Deal”, to be imposed on ungrateful Palestinians, whether they want it or not. Under it, Saudi Arabia and the UAE will take over from the Palestinian Authority as the enforcers of Washington’s will to turn Gaza into a “neo-colony”.

Following Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s death last week, senator Richard Blumenthal said in a post on X: “After recent conversations w/leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia & UAE, I have real hope that Sinwar’s death creates truly historic opportunities for Israel’s security, cessation of fighting & regional peace & stability through normalization of relations. The moment must be seized.”

America’s jugular vein

He was referring to secretive “mega-deal” to effectively create a US-Gulf regime neo-colony in Gaza, resurrecting the last century’s “mutual defence agreements” that commit the US to going to war for Saudi Arabia, as America prepares for a new cold war with China.

Lawmakers are tying these far-reaching policies vital for America’s global superpower status to the reconstruction of Gaza to make the deal more difficult to oppose. It’s like surgically attaching Gaza to America’s jugular vein.

Members of Congress have been blunt about their vision for Gaza, Israel and the Arabia.

“An independent sovereign nation called ‘Palestine’ with security guarantees for Israel to make sure there’s no future October 7ths,” senator Lindsey Graham, said.

Graham has led America’s intimidation campaign against the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor Karim Khan in May asked for arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders. He knows the US, Israel and their allies will have to try forge an entirely new blueprint for international law because they’re all equally guilty of genocide under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute.

Pie in the sky

“We’ll be next!” he warned Congress days after Khan’s May request, while pleading for strong action against the court.

“It will be more like an emirate than it will be a democracy. MBS and MBZ at the UAE will come in and rebuild Gaza … create an enclave in the Palestine,” the diminutive politician said of his vision, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Graham, one of Congress’s most fanatic fans of Israel’s Gaza Holocaust, praised Blumenthal for being “a Democrat trying to get the votes” for a deal requiring the U.S. to “go to war for Saudi Arabia.”

In a repeat of the 1948 tragedy that created the false state of Israel while ignoring the wishes of ordinary Palestinians living there, America’s politicians brush over any notion of Palestinian self-determination.

Just like they did in 1948, the Zionists are trying to steamroller their ideas through on the back of a genocide.

Soft-soaping tyranny

None of the post-war plans offered have involved an election or process that would allow Palestinians to have a say in their future.

But that’s not the language they’re using. Take Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin. He says he’s working for “a future that fulfills the aspirations of peace, security, prosperity, dignity, and mutual recognition for Israelis and Palestinians alike” while steadfastly ensuring no Palestinian ideas will spoil the party.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, as well as Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, in recent days about “work to bring home the hostages, end the war in Gaza, and chart a path forward that will enable the people of Gaza to rebuild their lives and realize their aspirations free from war and the grip of Hamas,” according to a tweet from the State Department.

President Joe Biden’s team has been desperately pushing for a deal with Saudi Arabia throughout his term, despite all his criticisms and rejection of MBS following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

He now considers MBS’s support as crucial to his “legacy”.

US officials were on the verge of finalizing an agreement before it was thwarted by Al-Aqsa Flood.