Russia and China give green light to Trump's colonial plan

The Palestinian people have no friends among the rulers but only below

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Russia and China’s abstention in the UN General Assembly on Trump’s plan for Palestine is politically decisive. An abstention means relinquishing all veto power, and relinquishing veto power means granting the American colonial plan the formal backing of the United Nations.

US imperialism, which for two years shielded Zionist barbarism, repeatedly resorting to its veto at the UN, has now secured from its rival imperialisms not only a long-awaited pass but the highest diplomatic cover. This is what Trump demanded. This is what Trump obtained.

This outcome exposes a marketplace of bargaining between competing interests.

China is not only a central trading partner of Israel; it is also embroiled in global negotiations with the United States — on trade, on rare earths and tariffs, and on the broader balance of power, beginning with the Asian seas. Beijing’s green light to Trump will weigh heavily in these negotiations.

Russia, for its part, is not only the Zionist state’s second-largest political partner after the United States; it is also seeking to cash in on Trump’s overtures in Ukraine and the Arctic. Washington’s Bonapartist venture requires reciprocal concessions elsewhere, and Moscow knows it.

Both Russian and Chinese imperialism, moreover, are determined to maintain good relations with the Arab regimes — especially the Gulf monarchies. And the Arab regimes needed, and still need, UN diplomatic cover to take part in a US-led “international stabilization force” in Palestine, with all the uncertainties and risks this entails, including the anger of their own populations. Moscow and Beijing provided exactly the cover required.

Diplomatic hypocrisy thrives on deception. Two days before offering their spectacular green light, Russia advanced its own proposal in the Security Council, citing the eternal canard of “two states for two peoples.” The aim was to boast later that the UN resolution contained some vague reference to the Palestinian question, supposedly the fruit of its pressure. But rhetorical pretenses are worthless. They serve the Arab regimes as camouflage for their subordination to US imperialism and Zionism; they serve Russia and China to parade their supposed merits before those same regimes. What matters materially lies elsewhere.

The Trump plan can now proceed with its back covered, and from a more entrenched position. Meanwhile, the Zionist state continues its slaughter: in Gaza, further torn apart by Israeli forces, where the destruction of homes, deportations, and starvation continue; and in the West Bank, where the army and settler terrorism against Palestinians persists unabated.

The genocide continues — if in shifting forms. The disarmament and destruction of Palestinian resistance remain the common objective of Trump, the Zionist state, the Arab bourgeoisies, and the European imperialisms. As for the Palestinian Authority, on Israel’s payroll for decades, it asks only to be allowed aboard the operation with some symbolic recognition, even if merely for future use.

Naturally, contradictions remain. Israel rejects any Turkish presence in the American-led force entering the Strip. The Arab regimes, led by Egypt and Jordan, are willing to provide occupation troops but want others to perform the “dirty work” of disarming Hamas. European governments are eager to dominate the reconstruction business but refuse to risk deploying troops, offering instead to train a future Palestinian police force abroad, perhaps through the Carabinieri. And even Trump, eager to preside over the colonial protectorate he himself crafted, refuses direct US troop involvement in Gaza, fearing electoral backlash if American soldiers are deployed.

In short, all dominant forces seek their share of the genocide’s final spoils — without paying the price. The pot has no lid. The script still waits for a signature.

But one truth emerges with absolute clarity, today more than ever: the Palestinian people and their resistance have no friends among the old or new imperialist powers, none in the treacherous diplomacy of the UN, none among the Arab governments, none in the so-called European democracies. Their potential allies are below — among the oppressed, in the working class, and above all in the new generation that has risen around the world with Palestine in its heart.

Only a revolution changes anything. It applies to all. And it applies with even greater force to the Palestinian people and the oppressed masses throughout the Middle East.