TheAltWorld Trump’s Gaza peace plan won’t work, it’s an ultimatum under genocide
The so-called peace plan put forward by U.S. President Trump is a non-starter that won’t work, according to international legal expert Alfred de Zayas.
The so-called peace plan put forward by U.S. President Trump is a non-starter that won’t work, according to international legal expert Alfred de Zayas.
De Zayas says Trump’s much-ballyhooed initiative is not a peace offer. It is an ultimatum demanded by criminal rogue regimes that are responsible for genocide – the United States and Israel.
Professor De Zayas points out that Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu have no credibility. Both are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. The very idea of Trump proposing a peace deal amidst an ongoing U.S.-backed mass slaughter, where there is no legal prosecution of the perpetrators of genocide, nor for the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and numerous other war crimes, is grotesque and absurd.
The appointment of British former leader Tony Blair to oversee Trump’s “peace plan” in Gaza is another insult.
“He should be behind bars as a war criminal,” says de Zayas, referring to Blair’s role in launching the U.S.-British war on Iraq in 2003, based on lies, killing over one million people.
On the issue of Gaza, the problem is that Israel, with support from the U.S. and European states, has been grossly violating international law and UN treaties for decades with impunity. This shameful lack of accountability and enforcement of international law makes Israel and its Western sponsors criminal regimes. It is nonsense to expect such serial violators to now propose a peace deal when they have not been held to account for a litany of crimes.
De Zayas says we need a ceasefire in Gaza urgently, with massive humanitarian aid for a population being deliberately starved to death by Israel. But any resolution must be applied with international law and justice for the horrific crimes.
Trump’s plan is a whitewash of the genocide. The Western mainstream media are also guilty of covering up the depth of horror. The media are ridiculously spinning Trump’s offer as genuine and credible, perhaps with a few flaws pooh-poohed here and there. The media are not reporting on the true horror and Western complicity in genocide. That’s because their long-time role is to serve as a propaganda service to sanitize the crimes and systematic lawlessness of Western rogue regimes.
Professor Alfred de Zayas teaches international law and history at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He has worked as a UN staff expert on human rights for nearly 50 years.
His latest book is The Human Rights Industry (Clarity Press, 2023), see here:
https://www.claritypress.com/product/human-rights-industry/
Catch his recent articles on wide-ranging international issues at Counterpunch:
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/alfred-de-zayas/
Trump’s Gaza peace plan won’t work, it’s an ultimatum under genocide
Joe
De Zayas expresses clearly, shortly and simply what should have been said and written by all the so-called “journalists”, “leaders” and “lawyers” all over the world.
Definitely you can’t expect the crime perpetrator to pretend that stopping to beat his victim because he is totally discredited can be called a “ceasefire”.
The human trash Trump even dared to complain that he didn;t get a Nobel prize! These people realy have no conscience, no honor, they are psychopaths.
And Putin, another puppet had nothing else to say than that to the very person behind the aggression of Russia: https://www.rt.com/news/626212-trump-thanks-putin-nobel-prize/
The only problem is that De Zayas works for a globalist crime syndicate posing as some kind of benevolent arbiter, the UN, a well known money laundering operation with full immunity for its many crimes, from the WHO induced genocide with the fake pandemic “covid19” and the forced house arrest, muzzling, isolation and injection of billions worldwide (with now 20 million deaths and counting from the mRNA poison), from the rape scandals of UN “peacemakers”, to UNICEF working with mass murderers like Bill Gates to use African and Indian girls as guinea pigs for their deadly “vaccines” and now their 17 goals towards their 2030/21 agenda to enslave humanity.
https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/17-goals-toward-enslavement-exposing-the-real-agendas-behind-the-2030-agenda/
https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/laundering-with-immunity-the-control-framework-part-1/
Switzerland is a concentration of criminal syndicates such as the WEF, the WHO in Geneva and the “world bank” in Basel head of the global banksters mafia.
But he did well to expose Trump and his zionist pimps and their fake ‘ceasefire’.
Leah McStravick
It’s not the World Bank but the BIS that sits in Basel , same criminals anayway but it’s important to precise that.
Moderatoron
Important to never remember these criminal corporations which might be your employers, or your providers, or your sponsors:
COMPANIES PROFITING FROM THE GENOCIDE
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AeroVironment, Agilite , Aimpoint , AMAZON, AM General , BAE SYSTEMS, BOEING, CATERPILLAR (, Cellebrite DI Ltd, CISCO, COLT, Corsight , Day & Zimmermann , DJI , ELBIT SYSTEMS, Emtan , Flyer Defense , FORD , GENERAL DYNAMICS, GENERAL ELECTRIC, GENERAL MOTORS, GOOGLE – ALPHABET, HONEYWELL,HYUNDAI, InfiniDome , Israel Aerospace Industries , JCB , L3Harris Technologies, Leonardo (, Leupold & Stevens , LOCKHEED MARTIN, MDT Armor , Mercedes, MICROSOFT, NextVision , Nordic Ammunition Company , NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Oshkosh, PALANTIR, *Paz Oil, Plasan , Rafael , Renk, Rheinmetall , ROLLS-ROYCE, RTX, Shield AI , SK Group , Skydio , SMARTSHOOTER , SpearUAV , *, THYSSENKRUPP, TOYOTA, *Valero, Woodward Inc, XTEND
Amazon
The Israeli military publicly admitted to using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its capabilities during its war on Gaza, along with Google and Microsoft cloud services.
Of these three companies, Amazon reportedly has the closest relationship with the Israeli military.
Israeli military intelligence uses AWS servers to store masses of intelligence information on almost everyone in Gaza.
Since 2021, Amazon has been providing cloud services to the Israeli government under Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract it shares with Google. It provides cloud services to all branches of the Israeli government, including the military, the Israeli Security Agency (Shabak/”Shin Bet”), Police, and Prison Service; weapons manufacturers Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael (see above); and government agencies related to Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.
Google/Alphabet
The Israeli military publicly admitted to using Google Cloud to enhance its capabilities during its war on Gaza, along with Amazon and Microsoft cloud services.
In October and November 2023, Google received, accelerated, and granted an urgent request from the Israeli Ministry of Defense to expand its use of Vertex, a Google service that allows users to apply AI algorithms to their own data.
In March 2024, the Israeli military signed a consulting contract directly with Google to expand its access to Google Cloud.
Throughout 2024, Google processed several additional requests by the Israeli military for increased access to its AI technologies, including the Gemini generative AI language model.
The Israeli military has also used Google Photos’ facial recognition features as part of its mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza during the war.
Since 2021, Google has been providing cloud services to the Israeli government under Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract it shares with Amazon. It provides cloud services to all branches of the Israeli government, including the military, the Israeli Security Agency (Shabak/”Shin Bet”), Police, and Prison Service; weapons manufacturers Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael (see above); and government agencies related to Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.
Google’s contracts with Israel do not include the company’s standard terms of use; instead, they give the Israeli government total discretion over what Google products it can use and how it uses them.
In April 2024, Google fired more than 50 employees who protested the company’s activities in Palestine/Israel.
In February 2025, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lifted a ban on using its AI tools for military purposes, such as developing weapons and surveillance tools.
Microsoft
The Israeli military publicly admitted to using Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service, to enhance its capabilities during its war on Gaza, along with Amazon and Google cloud services.
The military’s use of Azure spiked dramatically during the war, increasing by more than 155% between June 2023 and April 2024.
Between October 2023 and June 2024, Microsoft agreed to provide the Israeli military with 19,000 hours of engineering support and consultancy services.
AI tools that the Israeli military receives through Microsoft Azure include the GPT-4 generative language model, automated translation, and automated document analysis.
By March 2024, the military’s consumption of Microsoft Azure AI services was 64 times higher than it was before the genocide.
Microsoft fired two employees after they organized a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza.
BAE Systems
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The world’s seventh largest weapons manufacturer, U.K. company BAE Systems manufactures the M109 howitzer, a 155mm mobile artillery system that the Israeli military has been using extensively, firing tens of thousands of 155mm shells into the Gaza Strip.
Some of these shells are white phosphorus bombs, the use of which is forbidden in densely populated civilian areas and potentially amounts to a war crime.
Israel’s M109 were made by BAE in the U.S. decades ago and went through multiple rounds of improvements in Israel. They are slated to gradually be replaced by the 155mm Ro’em/Sigma, “the world’s first fully automatic howitzer,” made in Israel by Elbit Systems.
BAE also manufactures electronic missile launching kits and other components for Israel’s F-15, F-16, and F-35 fighter jets, which the Israeli Air Force has used extensively in all of its attacks on Gaza, including in 2023.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments) see our company profile on the Investigate database.
The Boeing Company
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The world’s fifth largest weapons manufacturer, Boeing manufactures F-15 fighter jets and Apache AH-64 attack helicopters, which the Israeli Air Force has used extensively in all of its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, including in 2023.
Boeing manufactures the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, which convert unguided bombs of the MK-80 series, made by General Dynamics (see below), into guided munitions. Israel has been using these bombs extensively, including in:
A March 27 air strike on an emergency and relief center in the Habbarieh, South Lebanon, that killed seven civilian volunteers. According to Human Rights, this was “an unlawful attack on civilians that failed to take all necessary precautions” and “should be investigated as an apparent war crime.”
The Nov. 1 bombing of Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, which killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and could amount to a war crime, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Bombings on Oct. 10 and 22 that killed 24 people of the al-Najjar family and 19 people of the Abu Mu’eileq family in Deir al-Balah, in what Amnesty International called unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians” that could amount to a war crime.
Boeing also makes the 250-pound GBU-39 guided small diameter bomb (SDB), which is also extensively used by the Israeli Air Force. According to the New York Times and CNN, Israel dropped two such bombs in its May 26 airstrike of the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah. The attack caused a massive fire that resulted in the death of at least 45 people, mostly civilians.
Immediately after Oct. 7, Boeing expedited delivery of 1,000 small diameter bombs, and another 1,800 JDAM kits, to Israel. Both deliveries were part of an older order that Israel placed in 2021 during its previous large-scale attack on Gaza.
Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company has important production facilities outside of Los Angeles, Seattle, and St. Louis. For more locations, see this map.
https://thebusinessofwar.substack.com/p/mapping-the-business-of-war
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
Caterpillar
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For decades, Caterpillar has been supplying Israel with the D9 armored bulldozer, which the Israeli military routinely uses to demolish Palestinian homes and civilian infrastructure in the occupied West Bank and to enforce the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Armored D9 bulldozers have been crucial for Israel’s ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, accompanying combat troops and paving their way by clearing roads and demolishing buildings.
D9 bulldozers were also used in raids of Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarem, where a bulldozer was used to destroy a memorial to former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. Deliberate destruction of cultural heritage sites during an armed conflict can constitute a war crime.
Since December, Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and other heavy equipment have been systematically destroying civilian buildings and other property alongside the Gaza Strip border, creating a half-a-mile-wide “buffer zone” over roughly 16% of the Strip’s area. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, “extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime.”
On Dec. 16, Israeli bulldozers were reportedly “running over and crushing displaced people inside their tents in Beit Lahia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital courtyard,” killing several people in the process.
In February, Caterpillar bulldozers and other heavy machinery participated in building a new road that runs across the Gaza Strip from east to west, designed to facilitate Israeli long-term “logistical and military control in the region.”
On Mar. 28, a military bulldozer, likely made by Caterpillar, was captured on video dragging and burying in the sand two bodies of Palestinian men, who were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Before they were killed, the men appeared unarmed, and at least one of them was seen repeatedly waving “what appeared to be white fabric.”
Israel placed an urgent order for dozens of additional D9 armored bulldozers after Oct. 7.
Some of Israel’s D9T bulldozers have been converted into remote-controlled or semi-autonomous vehicles so that they can operate without a driver in “complex,” “high-risk areas.” In November, Israel Aerospace Industries, the company that converts the bulldozers, modified more units for the Israeli military for its operations in Gaza.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
Cisco
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Between November 2023 and January 2024, the Israeli military purchased over $2 million worth of Cisco servers and associated “professional services.”
Cisco hardware powers the Israeli military’s central data center, which integrates hundreds of combat, intelligence, and command and control systems.
The company also provides the Israeli military with its Unified Communications System, which enables information sharing among different military units, and its Webex video conferencing system.
Cisco also supports the Israeli police and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In December 2024, Cisco employees sued the company, alleging that it had unlawfully suppressed their concerns about Israel’s use of its technologies.
For sources and more information, see this company’s profile on the Investigate database.
General Dynamics
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The world’s sixth largest weapons manufacturer, General Dynamics, supplies Israel with artillery ammunition and bombs for attack jets used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
The company developed the F-16 fighter jet, although it has been manufactured by Lockheed Martin since 1993.
General Dynamics is the only company in the U.S. that makes the metal bodies for the MK-80 bomb series, one of the primary aerial munitions Israel has used to bomb Gaza. The Israeli Air Force extensively uses 500-pound MK-82/BLU-111 bombs, 1,000-pound MK-83/BLU-110 bomb, and 2,000-lbs MK-84/BLU-109 bomb. Different designations (MK vs. BLU) indicate a different explosive filling. When converted into guided munitions using Boeing’s JDAM kits (see above), these bombs’ designation changes to GBU-38 (500 pounds), GBU-32 (1,000 pounds) or GBU-31 (2,000 pounds).
The largest of this bomb series, the 2,000-pound MK-84/BLU-109/GBU-31 bomb, is notorious for the damage it creates, and cannot be used in densely-populated urban areas without causing massive civilian casualties. The explosion of a 2,000-pound bomb means “instant death” for people within 100 feet, with lethal fragments extending for up to 1,200 feet. According to a CNN analysis, Israel dropped more than 500 such bombs in the Northern Gaza Strip until Nov. 6. These include, for example, the Nov. 1 bombing of Jabalia refugee camp, which killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and could amount to a war crime, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
According to a New York Times analysis, by mid-November, Israel dropped over 208 2,000-pound bombs on the Southern Gaza Strip, in areas “where Israel had ordered civilians to move for safety.” This includes, for example, an Oct. 10 bombing that killed 24 people of the al-Najjar family and potentially an Oct. 22 bombing that killed 19 people of the Abu Mu’eileq, both in Deir al-Balah. Amnesty International called both attacks unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians “that could amount to a war crime.”
Between Oct. 7 and Dec. 21, the U.S. reportedly sent Israel more than 5,000 MK-84 bombs. On March 29, it was reported that the U.S. had “quietly authorized” fulfilling a number of older Israeli munitions orders, including more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs. In early May, the U.S. government reportedly decided to hold up this shipment to pressure Israel not to conduct a attack on Rafah.
General Dynamics is also the only company in the U.S. that makes 155mm caliber artillery shells, which have been used extensively to attack Gaza. One source reported that, by Nov. 25, one Israeli brigade fired some 10,000 such shells using BAE’s M109 howitzer.
155mm shells have been part of the U.S.’s recent weapons shipments to Israel. The U.S. is planning to send “tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that had been destined for Ukraine” to Israel. Their use by Israel, according to Oxfam, is “virtually assured to be indiscriminate, unlawful, and devastating to civilians in Gaza.” On Nov. 13, more than 30 organizations issued a letter opposing the transfer.
General Dynamics also partnered with Flyer Defense (see above) to develop an armored patrol vehicle that Israel is testing.
On an Oct. 25 call with investors, General Dynamics CFO, Jason Aiken, said, “I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out of [the attacks on Gaza], the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.”
General Dynamics is based outside of Washington, D.C., in Fairfax, Virginia. For more locations, see this map.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
*General Electric
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The world’s 31st largest weapons manufacturer, General Electric manufactures T700 Turboshaft engines for Boeing’s Apache helicopters.
GE is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
General Motors
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Provides engines and transmission units for multiple vehicles used by the Israeli military, including the Flyer 72 (see above) and all-terrain vehicles of the Z-series, made by IAI (see below). Israel buys GM parts using U.S. taxpayers’ money, even for vehicles made in Israel.
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.
Leonardo
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Italy’s largest weapons manufacturer, Leonardo makes the Oto Melara 76/62 Super Rapid 76mm naval guns installed on the Israeli Navy’s Sa’ar warships. Israel’s newest warship, the Sa’ar 6, was used operationally for the first time on Oct. 16, 2023, firing at targets in Gaza using Leonardo’s gun.
On Dec. 27, Leonardo subsidiary DRS Sustainment Systems, based in St. Louis, was awarded a $15.4 million contract for manufacturing heavy-duty tank trailers for Israel. The contract is funded by U.S. taxpayers’ money and is estimated to be completed in December 2026.
For more information on this company, see our company profile on the Investigate database.
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
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A German automaker that, in November, expedited the delivery of 112 Arocs trucks to the Israeli military, which uses them to transport its Merkava tanks as well as other heavy armored vehicles and bulldozers. The Israeli military chose Mercedes as its main supplier of tank transporters in 2022 and ordered a total of 460 trucks, customized for its needs.
Rheinmetall AG
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Germany’s largest weapons manufacturer, which is providing Israel with 10,000 rounds of 120mm precision tank ammunition. Israel made the request in November, and Germany reportedly considered speeding up delivery of the ammunition by providing it from its own military’s existing stockpiles while ordering more from Rheinmetall.
*ThyssenKrupp
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A German engineering company that built the Israeli Navy’s four Sa’ar 6 warships, which were used for the first time on Oct. 16 against targets in Gaza.
Toyota
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A Japanese auto maker that manufactures the pickup trucks used by the Israeli military as the basis for the David Urban Light Armored Vehicle (see MDT Armor above).
RTX (formerly Raytheon)
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The world’s second largest weapons manufacturer and largest producer of guided missiles, RTX supplies the Israeli Air Force with guided air-to-surface missiles for its F-16 fighter jets, as well as cluster bombs and “bunker buster” bombs, although there is no conclusive evidence that Israel has been using them in Gaza since October 2023.
RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney manufactures engines for F-15 and F-16 fighter jets.
As part of a joint venture with Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturer Rafael, RTX makes interceptors for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, which have been part of the U.S.’s recent weapons shipments to Israel.
On an Oct. 24 call with investors, RTX CEO, Greg Hayes, said, “I think really across the entire Raytheon portfolio, you’re going to see a benefit of this restocking.”
RTX moved is headquarters from Waltham, Massachusetts to Arlington, Virginia in 2022. For more locations, see this map.
https://thebusinessofwar.substack.com/p/mapping-the-business-of-war
For more information on this company (not including these latest developments), see our company profile on the Investigate database.