US President Donald Trump. Picture: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP It’s so sad. That poor, kindly man on the phone at all hours of the day and night, 79 years old and still trying to do good and bring peace and that, but as soon as he hangs up they’re right back at war again.
First it was Africa in June, when Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a peace deal in Washington after decades of conflict. Donald Trump said it would help increase trade between them and the US. However, neither side actually stopped shooting in the eastern Congo and, right now, the M23 rebels – backed by Rwanda – are conquering their third big city there, Uvira.
DRC presidential spokesperson Tina Salama has had to deny that the peace deal involved “selling out on minerals to the Americans… it’s not peace for minerals”. That’s a sure sign that the peace deal was really about selling out on minerals to the Americans. In July, Trump spoke his words of wisdom to the Thais and Cambodians, who immediately stopped fighting and began beating their swords into ploughshares.
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But last weekend the shooting started again. But Trump’s crowning triumph was in Gaza, shattered after two years of genocidal war. Since he forced Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire on 10 October, the Israeli forces have killed only 377 Palestinians, of whom 70 were children.
More than a thousand Palestinians have been wounded and several Israeli soldiers have also been killed. This is Trump’s second ceasefire in Gaza this year. The first was just one day before he took office in late January and it lasted until mid-March before Netanyahu broke it.
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