Dmitry Orlov

The Green New Deal is dead. Trump called it. Appearing before the UN General Assembly and speaking ad libitum (because the teleprompter had failed while he didn’t have a printout of his speech) he called climate change the ”greatest con job ever perpetrated in the world.” He added: “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.” There immediately followed an “expert reaction” along the lines of “Mr. Trump is endangering the lives and wellbeing of Americans and people around the world by wrongly denying the realities of climate change.” The “experts” in question were, of course, so-called “climate scientists” — people who can’t predict the weather two weeks out but claim to be able to predict it two centuries out, since climate is just a fancy word for weather if you zoom out on it.

Which set of liars should you believe, the swindling, bloviating buffoon who is always trying to bluff his way into a profitable “deal” or the self-serving pseudo-scientists with their fake climate pseudo-models, their grant money assured only as long as they keep predicting climate catastrophe and taxpayer-supported green tech as the only way to avoid it?

As goes a popular Russian saying, “If on an elephant’s cage it says ‘Buffalo’, do not trust your eyes.” Instead, you should believe me; would I lie to you? Of course not! I am not any sort of “climate scientist” (thank God) but I do know quite a bit of science — enough to tell real science from fake science. It took me a long time to realize that global warming science is fake. (I used to be more gullible when I was younger.)

Also, I have now lived long enough to witness the failure of some of the older catastrophist predictions — enough to teach me to disregard the rest of them, since they are all based on the same technique: climate scientists make computer models which they then arrogantly claim represents not just reality, but the future! The gall! Of course, computer models predict whatever their operators want them to predict. They tweak the parameters until the desired answer pops out. Obviously, a model that predicts the onset of the next ice age isn’t helpful for getting government research grants.

Climate change is, of course, real; the Earth’s climate, as a statistical generalization of weather, is always fluctuating — predictably over a few days, unpredictably over longer periods. There are some regularities having to do with the Earth’s orbit and the cyclical behavior of the Sun, but there is plenty of what is to us complete randomness superimposed on these patterns. That is, there are certainly some large-scale features that are somewhat predictable, but on a time scale that makes such predictions irrelevant on the time scale of human history.

In very rough terms, the Earth is currently approaching the end of an interglacial period (the Earth is in the middle of a sequence of ice ages which started approximately 2.6 million years ago during a period known as the Quaternary glaciation). Since then, it has experienced recurring glacial and interglacial periods, with the last ice age ending around 11,700 years ago. Any millennium now the Northern Hemisphere could start growing an ice cap and Antarctica a wide apron of ice… but don’t hold your breath — results may vary. The idea that we — a species of simians running around the planet’s surface — could do anything to affect this course of events is, of course, preposterous.

Nevertheless, among these simians there are found some global warming enthusiasts who keep chattering about something they call the “greenhouse effect”: certain gases within the Earth’s atmosphere, called “greenhouse gases,” trap solar radiation, warming the lower atmosphere and the planet’s surface. The only significant greenhouse gas is water vapor: clouds serve as a nice warm blanket to keep us from freezing on winter nights while high humidity on hot summer days prevents our sweat from evaporating and this can cause heat stroke.

But global warming enthusiasts instead focus on carbon dioxide, a gas that is present in trace amounts (parts per million) insufficient to make a difference. The biggest reservoir of carbon dioxide on the planet is not the atmosphere but the ocean, carbon dioxide being water-soluble, and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a function of ocean water temperature. The oceans effervesce carbon dioxide as they heat up and readily absorb excess atmospheric carbon dioxide as they cool down, and so maintain a temperature-based balance. Analysis of ancient ice cores has shown that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations trail temperature changes; thus, they cannot have been causing them.</

Carbon dioxide is an asphyxiant to us oxygen-breathing life forms (in concentrations above 4%) but is minimally toxic at lower concentrations such as sitting around a campfire. Much more importantly, it is an essential plant food: plants convert carbon dioxide to sugar and cellulose with the help of violet-blue and orange-red light while green light is reflected. Thus, higher carbon dioxide levels are a positive for forestry, agriculture and life on Earth in general while current carbon dioxide levels are too low for optimal plant growth.

The idea that burning fossil fuels will increase long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, in turn increasing global temperatures and causing catastrophic, cataclysmic global warming is… what’s that? Oh yes, that would be “pseudo-scientific catastrophist bullshit”. The extra carbon dioxide will make plants (and farmers) happy for a while, but then the oceans will absorb the excess. End of story.

The reason that this bit of pseudo-scientific bullshit has been foisted on us is money: officials and corporations in Western countries thought that they could use the global warming ruse for purposes of extortion. They would put the whole world on a carbon dioxide diet, forcing less developed countries, which have no choice but to burn carbon dioxide-spewing fossil fuels, to pay them carbon dioxide taxes while Western green elves would avoid burning fossil fuels by employing very expensive green technology (solar panels and wind generators) which poorer nations would be unable to afford. Such was the plan, but then it turned out that:

1. Solar panels and wind generators are unable to replace fossil fuel-based energy sources because of the problem of intermittency: the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. Whenever the energy contribution of wind and solar approaches 30%, electric grids exhibit a marked tendency to collapse. This problem could be mitigated by storing electricity; alas, no practical solutions exist for doing so at the scale that’s required (hundreds of gigawatt-hours). The only solution for compensating for intermittency of wind and solar is… burning fossil fuels —natural gas, specifically, since neither coal plants nor nuclear plants can be ramped up and down fast enough to keep up with passing clouds and wind gusts.

2. Solar panels and wind generators are mostly made in China. They don’t last long (a decade or so) and when they fail they become toxic waste. The wreckage from large wind generators is particularly difficult to dispose of. No better solution has been found for their huge fiberglass blades, each as large as the wing of a passenger jet, than to bury them. The situation is no better with solar panels. Hailstorms result in large fields covered with toxic glass shards. The wind generators and the solar panels are only renewable as sources of energy for as long as China is willing to continue making and selling them. Their manufacture involves rare earth elements for which China has a near-monopoly and which are most definitely nonrenewable.

3. The headlong pursuit of “green energy” by the European Union, coupled with its refusal to continue buying pipelined natural gas from Russia and the refusal to continue the nuclear energy program in Germany, has resulted in very high energy prices which, in turn, made European industry noncompetitive. France is continuing with its nuclear program, getting 70% of its electricity from nuclear power plants, but it has lost access to uranium from Niger, its nuclear power plants are getting old and suffering from cracked welds in the piping, and its plans for building new power plants would require unaffordable levels of public spending and haven’t been able to pass France’s own nuclear regulatory agency’s approval process.

4. What made this headlong pursuit of “green energy” possible was, of course, government subsidies. Instead of funneling tax receipts toward public infrastructure, education, health care or other social needs, the money has been spent on useless solar panels and wind generators… until it became clear that the payback on such questionable investments is nonexistent. This made it necessary to redirect this spending toward something else useless, such as the procurement of weapons systems.

5. As a result of this energy crisis, industry after industry — chemicals, fertilizers, cars and machinery, glass and ceramics and just about everything else — is being forced to scale back and to shut down. That way lies mass unemployment and social unrest, rapid deindustrialization and national bankruptcy. Coupled with increased military spending, this makes for a smooth transition to war. More specifically, the transition is to defeat in a war, since a failing industrial economy cannot serve as the basis for victory.

Getting back to Trump’s speech at the UN, it would be a mistake to take his words too seriously. The teleprompter didn’t work, he didn’t have his speech on paper and was just saying whatever came to mind. And what comes to his mind, generally, is whatever he thinks will get him some notoriety and keep the limelight on him for a little longer. By now we should have all realized that he is not a results-oriented person; if he were, then Greenland would be a US possession, Canada would be the 51st state, Panama Canal would be under US control, the Houthis in Yemen would no longer be lobbing hypersonic missiles at Israel, Iran would no longer have a nuclear program, the war in the former Ukraine would have ended a day (or a week, or a month) after his inauguration… Clearly, Trump is going for amusement value, not actual real-world results. A key piece of his strategy is to avoid taking responsibility for his words by reversing his statements almost immediately; thus, at the UN he said that Russia is “a paper tiger” and then hours later he said that it is not.

And so, when Trump said: “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” he was, of course, lying. If “your country” is part of the EU, then there is no getting away from “this green scam”: the money has already been misspent and the energy infrastructure has already been compromised. Russia has already given up on the European energy market and has reoriented its energy exports to the east. For the EU, rapid deindustrialization is now inevitable. Trump’s statement can thus be shortened to “Your country is going to fail.”

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The Palestine Laboratory – EP 1

Al Jazeera (2025)

Film Review

This documentary is based on Antony Lowenstein’s book Palestinian Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (2023). He narrates the film.

Israel is a world leader in the production of drones, missiles, tanks and surveillance technology. Despite their tiny population, they’re the world’s 9th largest weapon maker.

Every year they sell $13 billion worth of surveillance technology every year. They use extensive surveillance technology to monitor the movement of Palestinians, reducing the need for checkpoints and fractious interactions with the IDF.

Hebron in the West Bank is the main testing ground for so-called frictionless technology. There the IDF installs rooftop cameras (with iris scan capability) on nearly every building. All are linked to predictive policing AI to look for “threatening behavior,” ie participating in human right activities. Microsoft’s Wolfpack AI collects data, with Red Wolf AI linking the data to a central room database tracking all Palestinians and Blue Wolf transmits the data to IDF phones.

Israel has also installed remotely controlled AI enabled check points with the ability to fire bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.

A private company supported by the IDF markets this surveillance technology to prion and refugee camps around the world, in the hope of normalizing “predictive policing.”*

In addition to fixed surveillance cameras, Israel also uses surveillance drones and taps phones and social media accounts of all Palestinians, Israel provides all their phone an Internet services. The Israeli government also markets their surveillance and predator drones worldwide, as well as their AI drones capable of gunfire. Like Wolfpack AI, all were pretested in Gaza and/or Ukraine.

Israel also has the ability to infect phones remotely anywhere in the world with Pegasus spy software. Over fifty thousand phones worldwide have been infected with it.

Between 1965 and 2007, the IDF occupied Gaza as well as the Wet Bank. In 2007, the Israeli military officially withdrew from Gaza but retained control of Gazan Paletinians population by restricting food, water, energy and medical supplies allowed to enter the strip and introducing a comprehensive surveillance regime.

Like Lowenstein, commentators acquainted with Israel’s vast surveillance capability are baffled by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that obviously took years to plan.

Google and Amazon built the cloud services Israel employs to store data on the Palestinian population. When Lowenstein questioned Google about their participation in Israeli genocide, they bragged it would put them “first in line” for contracts with bigger countries.

Al Mahadeen English

Pfizer faces a major lawsuit in the United States over claims its contraceptive injection Depo-Provera caused brain tumours.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is facing a growing lawsuit in the United States over claims that its contraceptive injection, Depo-Provera, caused brain tumours in women who used it long-term.

The class action, brought by law firm Levin Papantonio, alleges that Pfizer failed to warn women and doctors about the increased risk of intracranial meningioma if Depo-Provera is used for more than a year.

A court hearing is scheduled in Pensacola, Florida, on Monday.

Since May, the number of plaintiffs has tripled to more than 1,300 cases, consolidated into multi-district litigation. Lawyers expect the total to rise to between 5,000 and 10,000 claims, with potential damages reaching billions of dollars.

Scientific studies have raised concerns about the safety of Depo-Provera. Research published in the British Medical Journal in March 2024 found that prolonged use of certain progestogen medications was linked to a higher risk of intracranial meningioma, a type of benign brain tumour. Depo-Provera was specifically linked to a 5.6-fold higher risk.

While meningiomas are not usually cancerous, they can cause seizures, headaches, and loss of vision or hearing. Surgical removal is often necessary but carries risks of damaging surrounding brain structures.

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/health/pfizer-lawsuit-in-us-links-contraceptive-injection-to-brain

Posted by Internationalist 360° on September 29, 2025

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Only weeks after Israel attempted to murder the negotiating team of the Palestinian resistance in Qatar, Israeli media report that Donald Trump’s ‘peace envoy’, Steve Witkoff, has developed a 21-point peace plan.

Moreover, both Trump and U.S. Vice-President Donald Trump claim that the U.S. government is on the precipice of ending Israel’s war on Gaza.

Is any of this credible?

Dimitri Lascaris examines closely the reported substance of Witkoff’s proposal, as well as the record of the Trump and Netanyahu regimes, with a view to assessing whether Witkoff’s proposal stands a serious chance of ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

What are the 21 points?

The following are the contents of the plan, which have been paraphrased at the request of the sources who provided it.

1. Gaza will be a de-radicalized, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of its people.

3. If Israel and Hamas agree to the proposal, the war will immediately end, with the IDF halting all operations and gradually withdrawing from the Strip.

4. Within 48 hours of Israel publicly accepting the deal, all living and deceased hostages will be returned.

5. Once the hostages are returned, Israel will free several hundred Palestinian security prisoners serving life sentences and over 1,000 Gazans arrested since the start of the war, along with the bodies of several hundred Palestinians.

6. Once the hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful coexistence will be granted amnesty, while members who wish to leave the Strip will be granted safe passage to receiving countries.

7. Once this agreement is reached, aid will surge into the Strip at rates no lower than the benchmarks set in the January 2025 hostage deal, which included 600 trucks of aid per day, along with the rehabilitation of critical infrastructure and the entry of equipment for removing rubble.

8. Aid will be distributed — without interference from either side — by the United Nations and the Red Crescent, along with other international organizations not associated with either Israel or Hamas.

The text of this clause appears intentionally vague and seemingly leaves an opening for the continued operation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as it technically is an American organization, even if it was the brainchild of Israelis linked to the government and was crafted to fit the Israeli government’s prosecution of the war.

9. Gaza will be administered by a temporary, transitional government of Palestinian technocrats who will be responsible for providing day-to-day services for the people of the Strip. The committee will be supervised by a new international body established by the US in consultation with Arab and European partners. It will establish a framework for funding the redevelopment of Gaza until the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program.

This is the US plan’s first mention of the Ramallah-based PA. Israel has ruled out the authority as a potential ruler of Gaza, thereby nixing what has become the key to recruiting Arab assistance in the post-war management of the Strip, given that the international community views unifying the West Bank and Gaza under a single, reformed governing body as essential for long-term stability and peace.

The apparent decision to reserve the PA’s role for an unspecified later date will likely be a difficult pill for Ramallah to swallow, but it also has limited leverage to bear in these discussions.

Point nine appears to borrow heavily from former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s plan for ending the war, which was first revealed by The Times of Israel earlier this month.

Blair and former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner have been working on the Gaza file for months, while advising Witkoff.

10. An economic plan will be created to rebuild Gaza through the convening of experts with experience in constructing modern Middle East cities and through the consideration of existing plans aimed at attracting investments and creating jobs.

11. An economic zone will be established, with reduced tariffs and access rates to be negotiated by participating countries.

12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, but those who choose to leave will be allowed to return. Moreover, Gazans will be encouraged to remain in the Strip and offered an opportunity to build a better future there.

13. Hamas will have no role in Gaza’s governance whatsoever. There will be a commitment to destroy and stop building any offensive military infrastructure, including tunnels. Gaza’s new leaders will commit to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.

14. A security guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas and other Gaza factions comply with their obligations and that Gaza ceases to pose a threat to Israel or its own people.

15. The US will work with Arab and other international partners to develop a temporary international stabilization force that will immediately deploy in Gaza to oversee security in the Strip. The force will develop and train a Palestinian police force, which will serve as a long-term internal security body.

16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza, and the IDF will gradually hand over territory it currently occupies, as the replacement security forces establish control and stability in the Strip.

17. If Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above points will proceed in terror-free areas, which the IDF will gradually hand over to the international stabilization force.

This is the first mention of the possibility that the deal could be at least partially implemented, even if Hamas doesn’t agree.

18. Israel agrees not to carry out future strikes in Qatar. The US and the international community acknowledge Doha’s important mediating role in the Gaza conflict.

19. A process will be established to de-radicalize the population. This will include an interfaith dialogue aimed at changing mindsets and narratives in Israel and Gaza.

20. When Gaza’s redevelopment has been advanced and the PA reform program has been implemented, the conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, which is recognized as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.

The clause doesn’t provide details regarding the Palestinian reform program and is not definitive regarding when the pathway to statehood can be established.

21. The US will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful coexistence.

Haretz

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/steve-witkoffs-latest-peace-plan-is-a-scam/

REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis

ANKARA, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Turkey has joined Spain, Italy and Greece in monitoring an international flotilla carrying aid for Gaza that was sailing east across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday despite warnings from Israel to stop the mission, flight data show.

Flight tracking websites showed that three long-endurance drones originating from Turkey’s Corlu airbase have been circling over the flotilla for three days, highlighting the growing international interest in the boats which have vowed to breach an Israeli naval blockade around

Reuters was unable to confirm the reason for the drone flights. Turkey’s foreign and defence ministries and the intelligence agency did not respond to requests for comment.

FLOTILLA RESUMES JOURNEY AFTER REPAIRS

The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of civilian boats carrying parliamentarians, lawyers and activists including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, was still hundreds of miles off the Gaza coastline on Monday. But it was approaching an area where other flotillas have previously been intercepted, people on board said. Tracking sites showed about 40 boats in the flotilla.

Its advance has raised international tensions, especially after a drone attack last week damaged some boats. No one was injured, but the flotilla had to pause for several days in Greek waters for repairs before setting sail again for Gaza over the weekend. Organisers said on Monday that the mission was now expected to reach Gaza in about four days.

Italy and Spain have deployed navy ships to accompany the flotilla in case of rescue or humanitarian needs, but have said they will not engage militarily. Greece’s coastguard had also monitored progress while the flotilla was in its rescue area.

Italy warned on Sunday that the flotilla was nearing a high-risk zone and repeated a proposal made last week for the flotilla to take the aid to Cyprus for eventual distribution in Gaza by the Roman Catholic Church. The flotilla rejected the idea.

CONCERNS OVER POSSIBLE ISRAELI RESPONSE

Israel has shown several times it has no red lines so it is clear that we are worried by what it could do. We will obviously do everything to have a peaceful, non-violent stance,” Italian European Parliament member, Benedetta Scuderi, told Italy’s Radio 24 on Monday from aboard the flotilla.

Israel did not comment on last week’s drone incident but has previously said it will use any means to prevent the boats from reaching Gaza, arguing that its naval blockade is legal as it battles Hamas militants in the coastal enclave.

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Via https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/drones-turkey-circle-gaza-aid-flotilla-boats-sail-east-2025-09-29/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a White House visit on Monday to extend a formal apology to his Qatari counterpart for a recent military strike targeting Hamas officials in the Gulf emirate that infuriated Arab leaders and triggered rare criticism by the U.S. of Israel.

Meanwhile, the White House has released a plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump for ending the Israel-Hamas war and Gaza governance. There’s no immediate word on whether Israel or Hamas has accepted 20-point plan.

The plan, unveiled by the White House shortly before Trump and Netanyahu were to hold a press conference, calls for a temporary governing board that would be headed by Trump and include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The plan does not require people to leave Gaza and calls for the war to end immediately if both sides accept it. It also calls for all remaining hostages to be released within 72 hours of Israel accepting the plan.

Netanyahu made the call to Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, as he met with Trump for critical talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza and developing the U.S. plan on postwar governance in the war-battered Palestinian territory, according to the White House.

“As a first step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” the White House said in a statement. “He further expressed regret that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future.”

The White House talks, and apology from Netanyahu, come at a tenuous moment. Israel is increasingly isolated, losing support from many countries that were long its steadfast allies. At home, Netanyahu’s governing coalition appears more fragile than ever. And the White House is showing signs of impatience.

The question now is whether Trump, who has offered steadfast backing to Netanyahu throughout the war, will change his tone and turn up the pressure on Israel to wind down the conflict.

As he welcomed Netanyahu to the White House, Trump responded affirmatively when asked by reporters whether he was confident a deal would be soon reached to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

“I am. I’m very confident,” Trump said.

Israel stuck the headquarters of Hamas’ political leadership in Qatar on Sept. 9 as the group’s top figures gathered to consider a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The strike on the territory of a U.S. ally was a stunning escalation and risked upending talks aimed at winding down the war and freeing hostages. No senior Hamas officials were killed in the strike.

The attack on an energy-rich Gulf nation hosting thousands of American troops, which has served as a key mediator between Israel and Hamas throughout the war and even before, was described by Trump as out of step with Israeli and U.S. interests. And Trump sought to move quickly to assuage his Qatari allies.

Qatar, meanwhile, condemned the strike as a “flagrant violation of all international laws and norms” as smoke rose over its capital, Doha. Other key U.S. allies in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, promised their support to Qatar.

The White House said al Thani welcomed Netanyahu’s “assurances” and emphasized “Qatar’s readiness to continue contributing meaningfully to regional security and stability.”

But even as the White House was spotlighting the apology, Israel’s far right national security minister newly defended the decision to carry out Israel’s attack.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, a key coalition partner of Netanyahu’s, in a posting on X called the operation “an important, just and ethical attack.”

“It is very good that it happened,” he added.

Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt urged both sides to finalize an agreement to bring an end to the nearly two-year-old war in Gaza.

“Ultimately the president knows when you get to a good deal, both sides are going to leave a little bit unhappy,” Leavitt told reporters. “But we need this conflict to end.”

Meanwhile, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, said Palestinian officials stood ready to work with Trump and Arab countries in bringing an end to the war.

“Let us not delay a single minute more in doing what is necessary for this just peace to replace the unbearable reality of today,” Mansour said during a Security Council meeting on the Middle East.

Trump joined forces with Netanyahu during Israel’s brief war with Iran in June, ordering U.S. stealth bombers to strike three nuclear sites, and he’s supported the Israeli leader during his corruption trial, describing the case as a “witch hunt.”

But the relationship has become more tense lately. Trump was frustrated by Israel’s failed strike this month on Hamas officials in Qatar.

Last week, Trump vowed to prevent Israel from annexing the West Bank — an idea promoted by some of Netanyahu’s hard-line governing partners. The international community opposes annexation, saying it would destroy hopes for a two-state solution.

On Friday, Trump raised expectations for the meeting with Netanyahu, telling reporters the U.S. was “very close to a deal on Gaza.”

Trump’s proposal to stop the war in Gaza calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages within 72 hours and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian enclave.

Hamas is believed to be holding 48 hostages, 20 of whom are believed by Israel to be alive. The militant group has demanded Israel agree to end the war and withdraw from all of Gaza as part of any permanent ceasefire.

Trump discussed the plan with Arab and Islamic leaders in New York last week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. It doesn’t include the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, which Trump appeared to endorse earlier this year.

The 20-point proposal also calls for an end to Hamas rule of Gaza and the disarmament of the militant group. Hundreds of Palestinians, including many serving life sentences, will be released by Israel, according to the proposal.

The plan also includes the establishment of an international security force to take over law enforcement in postwar Gaza.

A Palestinian committee of technocrats would oversee the civilian affairs of the strip, with power handed over later to a reformed Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu has rejected any role for the authority, the internationally recognized representative of the Palestinians, in postwar Gaza.

A Hamas official said the group was briefed on the plan but has yet to receive an official offer from Egyptian and Qatari mediators. The group has repeatedly rejected laying down arms and has linked its weapons to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

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Via https://globalnews.ca/news/11456141/israel-gaza-middle-east-peace-plan-trump-netanyahu/