Is This The US 'Peace Plan' For Palestine?

I don’t have a clue who Megatron_ron is, but he seems generally well informed. I’ll get to his ideas on the peace plan, but first this excerpt from M. K. Bhadrakumar, which presents a fair idea of where things stand in Palestine, but also in the broader region. This is the view of a highly experienced diplomat from one of the two most important non-Western nations:

Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals

The pattern of Israeli behaviour [the provocative assassinations, ratcheting up tensions] needs to be understood from different angles. This is an incredibly complicated matrix. First and foremost, the Israeli operation in Gaza so far has been a failure. It turned the world opinion, especially in the Global South, heavily against Israel — South Africa’s petition to the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Gaza being the most telling evidence of it —  while Israeli military came a cropper in terms of its agenda to decimate Hamas. 

Tel Aviv has reached none of its stated goals in the Gaza war, which are annihilation of Hamas or disarming of Hamas and release of captives held by Palestinians in Gaza. That brings the security and military establishment in Tel Aviv, whose reputation has been seriously dented following the October 7 attack, under immense pressure. On the other hand, there has been a cover-up of the heavy casualty suffered by Israeli troops in the Gaza operation. The Kerman terrorist attack and the killing of Saleh al-Arouri actually betray a high level of frustration. 

In political terms, there is a convergence between the security and military establishment and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (whose political future hangs by a thread) and the ultra-rightist fascist forces aligned with him, whose interests lie in an extended war. 

The only external force capable of pressuring Israel is of course the US administration. But it is too much to expect President Biden to draw the ‘red line’ to Israel — that is, even assuming that he has the political will to do so — given the Israel Lobby’s control of the Congress and its seamless capacity for making or destroying the careers of US politicians. 

Washington has not changed the intensity of Israeli  military operation. On the other hand, the US has shipped to Israel 10,000 tons of arms to Israel in the recent period alone. In fact, it cannot be a coincidence that every single Blinken visit to the region since October 7 has witnessed a particularly brutal Israeli attack to up the ante. In effect, the US is broadly in support of the Israeli policy and a commitment to the destruction of Hamas, in particular. 

Therefore, Biden’s interest narrows down to prevent the war from spreading in the region lest direct American military intervention becomes necessary. The US rhetoric and diplomatic posturing largely aims at damage control in Washington’s relations with its erstwhile allies in the region. Quintessentially, Blinken’s mission comes down cheap window dressing — viz., to bringing the regional states to the same page that Israel is facing an existential crisis. But it does not take into account that the region has changed radically. 

What truly distinguishes the present crisis is that the Arab world is profoundly concerned and feels outraged by the barbaric Israeli behaviour toward hapless Palestinians — ‘animals,’ as Israeli politicians have described them. The Arab psyche is convinced that an enduring final settlement of the Palestine problem cannot be postponed indefinitely. Something has fundamentally changed even for Saudi Arabia which had clandestine dealings with Israel for decades and was inching toward establishing formal relations with it.

This is like a Humpty Dumpty venture—no way to put it all together again. But according to Megatron_ron that’s exactly what the US is playing at:

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⚡ 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇦 Biden wants Saudi Arabia to resume talks on recognizing Israel

Foreign policy:

"Riyadh's recognition of Israel is being considered in exchange for Tel Aviv's restraint in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and a promise to take Palestinian interests into account."

Who pays for the Brooklyn Bridge? Or, who thinks the Israeli’s will respect Gaza and the West Bank in the morning? And who will get Zhou his double scoop?

Megatron:

I already wrote that the US attempt is to sell off Gaza in exchange for a truce, that is, for Israel to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank, but for Saudi Arabia and the UAE to take control, which are more pro-Israel in the conflict.

This will keep Iran away from Israel as in the case of Jordan.

The main goal is to stop a major war in which American statesmen have already announced that Israel has no chance of winning, and Iran and Hezbollah have refused a truce.

The problem for the US is not the defeat of Israel itself but how to convince the population [i.e., the American people] when they get directly involved in the war with boots on the ground.

Reports are already coming in from the US that Blinken is in the Middle East in his last ditch effort to prevent a major war. He literally walks around and constantly calls for a 'ceasefire' with Hezbollah, declaring it publicly at press conferences.

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3:43 AM · Jan 9, 2024

Israel is not going to give up their illegal occupation of the West Bank. They’ll fight that to the last American. Thus, Blinken simply has nothing to offer to the Arabs. The whole plan looks totally goofy, and yet I think Megatron_ron may be on to something. This may simply be a ploy to sell war to gullible Americans.