Global Sumud Flotilla UPDATES

by Scott Creighton

Last night provided the first real bit of drama in this saga. After the Italian ship cut and ran leaving the flotilla folks to fend for themselves (so much for their promise to stick around and pick people out of the water if shit went south), the leaders of the group thought they might be attacked by the IDF so they got everyone up and dressed and into their life preservers so they could sit around on the decks of the boats waiting like good little protesters for the boarding parties which never came.

But it made for good social media theater, which may have been the point all along.

Gotta get those views.

 

Right now they are sailing under clear blue skies in beautiful conditions, picture perfect for the Mediterranean Sea. By my calculations (from the image from the Global Sumud Tracker website) they are currently 118 miles from the coast of Gaza.

Did Muslim countries agree to a different version of Trump’s Gaza plan?

(It's been reported that 8 Muslim and Arab nations signed onto the Trump 20-point peace plan last week at a meeting that took place at the UN. There are reports and images of Trump sitting next to Erdogan of Turkey. Turns out, Trump and his sycophantic Zionist supporters (Kushner, Witkoff and maybe General Michael "Erik" Kurilla?) then took that agreement to Netanyahu who made changes to the plan and after that happened, the Trump team told everyone those 8 countries agreed to the plan. But that wasn't the case. They hadn't seen Bibi's version which is now on Hamas' table. This is just more scummy and dishonest statecraft from Glorious TrumpyBear and the Genocidal Netanyahu.) 

 from DAWN

US news outlet Axios says deal now before Hamas is significantly different than one US and Muslim countries had previously agreed on. 

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday unveiled a 20-point plan for Gaza. Subsequently, eight Arab or Muslim-majority nations — Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt — “welcomed the role of the American president and his sincere efforts aimed at ending the war in Gaza”.

In Pakistan, the government’s so-called approval of the plan had drawn flak from politicians, journalists and activists alike, who termed the deal a “two-state surrender’’ with the scales weighing heavily in Israel’s favour.

Subsequently, signs began appearing that not everyone was happy with the draft made public by the White House. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar seemingly distanced Pakistani decision-makers from the plan. He also made it clear in so many words that the US peace plan for Gaza would not be acceptable if the am­e­ndments — jointly pro­posed by eight Muslim co­u­n­tries — were not included.

This came after Trump had previously claimed that both Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir were behind the plan “100 per cent”. However, in yesterday’s presser, Dar said the “document has been issued by the US” and that it was “not our document”.