The Gaza 'war' was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House this week tore the mask off 16 months of gaslighting by western leaders and by the entirety of the western establishment media. 

United States President Donald Trump finally dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza. 

This was always, he told us, a slaughter made in the US. In his words, Washington will now "take over" Gaza and be the one to develop it. 

And the goal of the slaughter was always ethnic cleansing. 

Palestinians, he said, would be "settled" in a place where they would not have to be "worried about dying every day" - that is, being murdered by Israel using US-supplied bombs. 

Gaza, meanwhile, would become the "Riviera of the Middle East", with the "world’s people" – he meant rich white people like himself – living in luxury beachfront properties in their stead. 

If the US "owns" Gaza, as Trump insists, it will also own Gaza’s territorial waters, where there just happen to be fabulous quantities of untapped gas to enrich the enclave’s new "owner". Palestinians have, of course, never been allowed to develop their gas fields. 

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