Tag: 1948 Nakba

The Trump Mandate: Who Needs Palestinians to Run Their Own Lives in Gaza?

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On January 16, U.S. president Donald Trump announced with imperial arrogance a “Board of Peace,” naming himself as its chairman, to oversee the governance of Gaza. This board is composed primarily of top U.S. diplomats, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “Trump’s announcement of the official creation of the Gaza Board of Peace is not merely a new diplomatic initiative,” Israeli Palestinian journalist Jack Khoury points out in the article published here. “It is a declaration with far deeper meaning: the restoration of an international — and above all American — protectorate over the Palestinian people.”

Extreme Right Has Seized Control of Israel

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This was the lead article in the Israeli daily Haaretz on August 7, 2025. In an expansive interview reported in this essay, Assaf David provides a glimpse of the destructive impact on Israeli society from Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Through the accounts of many Gazans he is in direct contact with, David describes the Israeli-caused starvation epidemic in Gaza and calls for an immediate end to Israel’s onslaught. His account is more compelling given David’s biography. He grew up in a religious Zionist home in the urban settlement of Kiryat Arba, abutting Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, later served in the Israeli army for 11 years, was seriously wounded in one of Hamas’ first suicide attacks, and for years was an adviser for the Israeli prime minister’s office.