Injustice Is Done. US Peace Plans for Gaza and Ukraine. Manlio Dinucci

The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution adopting the United States Peace Plan for Gaza, providing a legal mandate to the Trump Administration.

The Plan calls for the intervention of an ‘International Stabilisation Force,’ composed of 20,000 soldiers, to govern Gaza. It also provides for the creation of a ‘Peace Council’ to oversee the ‘Peace Plan,’ without clarifying its composition. This is an important diplomatic victory for the Trump administration. The resolution was approved with 13 votes in favour and zero against. Russia and China could have vetoed the resolution but abstained, clearly influenced by the support for it from several Arab and Muslim nations currently on the Security Council, including four that are part of the BRICS: Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In explaining their abstention, Russia and China criticised the plan for not respecting the principle of ‘two states, two peoples’, and for ignoring Palestinian sovereignty.

An operational base has already been opened in Israel, run by the Pentagon, which is ‘planning the future of Gaza.’ Hundreds of US and Israeli military personnel are gathered here, alongside military personnel from across Europe and distant countries such as Singapore, Arab intelligence officers, diplomats and foreign humanitarian workers. However, one fundamental presence is missing: the Palestinians, while the genocide of the Palestinian people continues. Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ ignores the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, now almost entirely controlled by Israel, whose soldiers and settlers are attacking Palestinian inhabitants in increasingly violent ways. At the same time, thanks to US support, Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, Yemen and other countries in the region with impunity.

While the Trump administration is busy with its ‘Peace Plan’ for Gaza in the Middle East, it is also launching a ‘Peace Plan’ for Ukraine in Europe.

According to journalistic sources who have seen it, the Plan calls for Ukraine to cede the (historically and culturally Russian) regions of Crimea (which has already rejoined the Russian Federation through a regular referendum) and Donbass to the Russian Federation. The Plan also stipulates that Ukraine should not join NATO and should reduce its armed forces. In return, ‘Russia must legislate that it will not attack Ukraine or NATO’, a formula that reverses reality, since it was NATO, under US command, that initiated the chain of events leading to war with the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014. The Plan provides for a non-aggression pact between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union, so that “all the ambiguities of the last 30 years will be resolved”.

However, NATO does not appear in the “non-aggression pact”. This erases history: after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the break-up of the USSR, NATO, under US command, had committed itself to ‘not expanding an inch to the east’, but instead it expanded from 16 to 32 members, moving further and further east towards Russia with its bases and nuclear weapons. Also,  according to the US plan, once the “non-aggression pact between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union” is in place, European nuclear-capable fighter-bombers would be permanently stationed in Poland “to protect Ukraine”. Through NATO, they would be under US command and armed with US nuclear bombs.  In this way, European NATO countries, including Italy, would remain on the front line against Russia. They would therefore be forced to further increase their military spending. The US plan also provides for a ‘Development Fund for Ukraine’. The United States will cooperate to jointly rebuild, modernise and manage gas infrastructure in Ukraine. To this end, $100 billion of frozen Russian assets will be invested, and Washington will receive 50% of the profits from these investments. The European Union will add another $00 billion, and the remainder of the frozen Russian funds will be invested in a separate agreement between the United States and Russia.

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This article was originally published in Italian on Grandangolo, Byoblu TV.

Manlio Dinucci, award-winning author, geopolitical analyst and geographer, Pisa, Italy. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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