PEACE HYPOCRISY
©Wendell Griffen, 2025
I am glad that Palestinians in Gaza are not being actively bombed, shot, and starved by Israeli Defense Forces. I am glad Israeli and Palestinian hostages have been released and reunited to with their families. I am glad that Donald Trump was not named the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace prize.
But because I care about justice I will not celebrate Donald Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza. That is also why I am not impressed by the recent announcement that Maria Corina Machado, a far-right activist supported by Trump, has been named the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s 20-point “peace” plan for Gaza doesn’t say a word about reparations to Palestinians whose homes, schools, religious shrines, cultural centers, energy, and other services have been destroyed by the U.S. backed Israeli war machine.
Trump and Machado supported the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. They praised Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government that systematically murdered defenseless men, women, children, journalists, aid workers, health care workers, and humanitarian workers who tried to help Palestinians in Gaza.
Machado has not criticized Trump’s extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans in international waters. Instead, she called for the U.S. to invade Venezuela and supports unilateral U.S. sanctions that have killed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.
Trump and Machado traffic in violence. People who are serious about justice should not hail them as activists for “peace.”