…which is why Zionist Israel is hellbent on regime
change in Iran at any cost after they made an offer
to Hamas that could not be refused. Next we will
see the Houthis and Hezbollah be given either a
Trump deal that’s too sweet to pass up or threats
to serious to ignore.
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As Israel’s unending genocide of Palestinians in Gaza “fades” from world headlines amidst its ceaseless violations of the Oct 2025 ‘ceasefire’ deal, Trump is now touting his new Board of Peace (BOP) for Gaza on which will sit indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada has dubbed this new imperial body the ‘Board of Predators.’ His and Craig Mokhiber’s critiques of Trump’s BOP are linked below.
But first, to get an idea of how Trump & Co. envision Gaza’s future, check out Jared Kushner’s Masterplan for Redeveloping Gaza, recently unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos. UK Column News spotlights the “extraordinary” lies in Kushner’s presentation:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-january-2026
–Advance to 26:00 (7min)
Comments by Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada:
Craig Mokhiber, international human rights lawyer and former UN official:
Hamas to disarm?
Jared Kushner seems extremely confident that Hamas will “disarm,” but as Craig Mokhiber (comments above) reminds us:
“…as a matter of international law, the Palestinian people have a right to resist the foreign occupation, colonial domination, and racist regime to which they are subjected, and people around the world have the legal right and the moral duty to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in this struggle.”
The power and global reach of the Zionist Israel Lobby must be acknowledged. Thanks to ‘arm twisting’ by this Lobby (and its Washington accomplice), the 15-member UN Security Council voted to authorize Trump’s Board of Peace (BOP) in Nov 2025. Russia and China “abstained” when they could have delivered a veto. In “rewarding the perpetrators” of the Gaza genocide, Craig Mokhiber called the UN Resolution on Gaza “an atrocity.”
Hamas and other Palestinian factions, of course, rejected the UNSC resolution. Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News briefly summarizes their views: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B2Whe11pH0U
What about Iran?
While many Arab and Muslim states are now rushing to join Trump’s BOP (e.g. Egypt, Jordan, Gulf kingdoms, Turkey, and Pakistan), Iran was not invited and remains strongly committed to the pro-Palestine “Resistance Axis” – an alliance that includes Hezbollah in Lebanon, anti-HTS militias in Syria; Iran-aligned militias in Iraq (U.S. still controls Iraq’s oil revenue); and Ansarallah Houthi brigades in Yemen, all standing in solidarity with Hamas and other Palestinian factions fighting Israel’s illegal takeover of Palestinian lands, including Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank (video).
BTW: Local populaces throughout West Asia overwhelmingly support the Palestinian cause.
As Robert Inlakesh writes: “…the real reason Israel seeks to topple the Islamic Republic [of Iran] is because of its role in supporting the Palestinian struggle.”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/why-israels-drive-to-destroy-iran-is-ultimately-about-palestine/ (If blocked, copy link into browser to access article.)
Regime-change intervention in Iran, even if welcomed by Iranian dissidents, would deliver a major blow to that Resistance. Not only would Iran’s vast oil and gas deposits again be up for grabs by foreign investors, but we would likely see an even more theocratic, belligerent, and spy-driven Zionist entity in Jerusalem, plus a new Jewish Third Temple replacing the Al-Aqsa Mosque, all bent on expelling Palestinians while bolstering the Greater Israel project reaching into Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and beyond – and supported by the U.S. taxpayer.
The alternative? An end to the Apartheid Zionist regime replaced by one of the many proposals for One Democratic State dedicated to equal rights for all.