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I almost didn’t get to work the other night after being caught in a massive traffic jam.

Roads were filled with thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters urging Hamas to accept Donald Trump’s peace deal and end the genocide.

Ok … you know that’s not true. And the fact you know it’s not true tells you everything!

The first thing that needs to be said about Trump’s bold plan to end the Gaza conflict is that it exposes the pro-Palestinian movement for what I’ve always suspected it to be.

It’s an anti-Israel movement rather than a peace movement.

If there really was a genocide occurring in Gaza, you’d expect pro-Palestinians to be rejoicing at Trump’s plan.

An immediate ceasefire. A phased withdrawal by Israel. Humanitarian aid flooding into the war-torn region.

If the Palestinians are experiencing a genocide, then surely, this weekend, we should expect to see thousands marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Bob Carr will lead the conga line, and Ed Husic will be firing confetti cannons – urging Hamas to accept the deal.

Who knows, rather than carrying portraits of the Ayatollah, the crowd may even parade with images of Donald Trump in appreciation for convincing Israel to end the genocide.

I can’t believe I wrote that with a straight face.

I think we know it won’t happen. And isn’t that damning?

Unacceptable

Greens Deputy leader Merheen Faruqi posted this on Instagram after Trump’s peace plan was announced,

Palestinians should determine their own future – not colonial powers. End the genocide. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.

So she wants an end to the genocide, just not an end to the genocide like the one announced.

And I have some sympathy. If the war stops, what will the Deputy Leader of the Greens have to talk about? It’s not like the environment interests her or her colleagues these days.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she was very concerned about the peace plan.

Sarah Hanson-Young told journalists:

Donald Trump would like to be the king of the world if he got his way.

Like they say… if Trump came up with a cure for cancer, the Greens would accuse him of putting oncologists out of work.

I guess you have to admire the Senator’s single-minded focus, though. Never let a Middle East peace plan that will finally end the suffering of Palestinians get in the way of hating on Donald Trump.

Then said this:

“It seems very clear to me that what is missing at the heart of this is to stop the genocide of innocent people and to protect the innocent lives of children who have been bearing the brunt of this brutal war.”

Um … a stop to the brutal war isn’t what’s missing from the plan… it IS the plan.

But not everything Senator Hanson-Young said was inaccurate. She added this:

I’m of course not across all of the details of the proposed arrangement.

That part was true.

Of course, I’m not saying there isn’t terrible suffering in Gaza, but if there’s mass starvation and a genocide, then Hamas – not to mention all those who support Palestine – would immediately embrace the deal. Right?

If there was an actual genocide – as we have been repeatedly told – pro-Palestine supporters would be screaming for Hamas to accept Trump’s deal.

Hateful Hypocrites

Outside the White House, right after Trump and Netanyahu held out the olive branch, pro-Palestine protestors chanted:

Long live the intifada.

Seriously? If the “genocide” doesn’t end on our terms… we prefer it continues? That was their stance?

You can’t make this stuff up. As the Middle East discovered peace, Western soy latte lovers discovered irony.

Or is it that everything we’ve heard about a genocide for the past two years has been a lie?

Again, just to be clear, I’m not for a moment saying there hasn’t been tragic suffering in Gaza.

Of course, there has.

Which is why, if you care about the Palestinians – as protestors say they do – then you’d cheer for Trump’s plan that promises the immediate cessation of hostilities. Wouldn’t you?

Calling yourself ‘pro-Palestinian’ while rejecting an American peace plan, backed by Arab and Muslim states, isn’t solidarity – it’s heartless war-mongering by people obsessed with fighting Israel to the last dead Palestinian.

And here’s another thing.

Numerous Arab states have thrown their support behind Trump’s 20-point peace plan.

So now it’s the US, Israel, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan and the Saudis… against Hamas and a bunch of Western university arts students.

Can you imagine Islamic States all supporting Trump’s plan while pro-Palestinian supporters do not?

Awkward Albanese

But it’s not only the pro-Palestinian supporters who are exposed by Trump’s peace plan.

The plan – which offers a clear pathway for Hamas to surrender, release hostages and hand over Gaza to an interim authority – shows the utter emptiness of Anthony Albanese’s grandstanding over recognising a Palestinian State.

That announcement may have earned our PM a round of high fives at the United Nations – something he will no doubt treasure forever – but made not a jot of difference to the lives of Palestinians.

Ironically, Albanese even made a virtue of the fact that his government’s decision to recognise Palestine flew in the face of our American allies.

He bragged:

“Our foreign policy isn’t determined in Washington, or Beijing, or Wellington for that matter.”

What a pity our foreign policy isn’t determined more closely with Washington… we could have been part of a historic peace deal.

That’s not to say we didn’t get a mention. Trump told journalists:

“Several countries have foolishly recognised the Palestinian State as you know some of our European friends and allies. Good people. But they’re really doing that because they’re tired of what’s been going on for so many decades.”

Our government was using the United Nations General Assembly as a platform to woo voters in Western Sydney, while the real peace work was being done by the United States.

As a one-time close ally of both Israel and the US, we could have been part of the peace plan.

Instead, all we got was a selfie.

When Albanese addressed the media, he told them:

Australia welcomes President Trump’s plan to bring peace to Gaza after almost two years of conflict and a devastating loss of civilian life.

It’s the equivalent of turning up to a wedding uninvited, and then clapping along like you organised it.

The statement only served to demonstrate just how far away from the pulse of real-world politics our student activist leaders – Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and Tony Burke – really are.

They’ve spent the past week doing a victory lap for recognising a Palestinian state that doesn’t exist – as if they had actually done something – and now ‘welcome’ President Trump’s actual plan that offers actual peace.

Who knows whether Hamas will accept Trump’s deal?

Anyone who cares about Israeli and Palestinian lives should demand that they take it.

A failure to do so would expose Hamas as the terrorists they are.

And Pro-Palestinian supporters?

Well, it seems to me that if you aren’t desperately hopeful for this peace deal to succeed, you’re neither pro-peace nor pro-Palestinian, and you’re certainly not pro-humanity. You’re just anti-Israel… preferring dead Palestinians to letting Israel exist.

I’m sure that’s not the case.

I look forward to pro-Palestinian marchers blocking the Melbourne and Sydney CBDs this weekend, chanting “Thank you, Donald” and waving peace signs.

I’ll wait.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.