In a viral interview last week, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared that “it would be fine” if Israel “took” all the land from the Nile river in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq.

The remark came as Israel’s government advanced further measures to legalise land seizures across the occupied West Bank. Settler outposts are retroactively approved. Palestinian communities are hemmed in, cut off from roads, water, and farmland. The map shifts by decree and by bulldozer.

A new report from the UN Human Rights Office warns of “methodical destruction” of neighbourhoods in Gaza and escalating violence in the West Bank, raising the risk of ethnic cleansing. The territory fragments further by the week.

The Nakba never ended. What began in 1948 as mass expulsion and territorial seizure hardened into a regime of enclosure, fragmentation, and control — denial of return; checkpoints and permit systems; settlements and bypass roads; siege and bombardment; walls, registries, and surveillance grids. It was sustained not only by force on the ground but by weapons contracts, trade agreements, banking channels, and diplomatic protection abroad. The genocide in Gaza is its most concentrated expression.

This is the devastating backdrop against which Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his so-called “Board of Peace” in Washington.

Behind the language of reconstruction lies a familiar formula: security control without sovereignty; billions pledged without rights restored; governance structures designed in foreign capitals; economic management tied to compliance. Gaza’s devastated coastline is recast as an investment corridor. Reconstruction is framed as an opportunity for “modernisation”: digital identification systems, tightly monitored financial flows, the promise of a cashless economy administered under external oversight. A liaison office is established to coordinate with a Palestinian Authority stripped of territorial control. Self-determination is deferred yet again.

In this model, occupation is rebranded as redevelopment. Annexation advances on the ground while a new supervisory regime is assembled above it.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, declined the invitation and called the initiative what it is: a “colonialist operation — others deciding for the Palestinians.”

The description is precise.

What is consolidating is a colonial architecture: territorial absorption normalised; siege maintained through financial and logistical systems; reconstruction conditioned; international law invoked when convenient and ignored when it obstructs expansion. The language may oscillate between messianic fervour and technocratic management; the result converges.

Yet this is not the only architecture taking shape.

Next week, states will convene in The Hague, in an meeting co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, to advance a different logic: that international law imposes obligations on third states; that arms transfers can be halted; that ports can refuse docking; that vessels can be de-flagged; that public contracts can be reviewed; that universal jurisdiction can be activated. The Hague Group was formed to break paralysis — to translate condemnation into coordinated state action.

Concrete action, not rhetoric, is precisely the world’s demand. That is why days later in Amsterdam, social movements, trade unions, parliamentarians, jurists, dockworkers, journalists, and political leaders from across the world will march to Amsterdam for the People’s Congress for The Hague Group. There, they will map the global supply chains that sustain Israel’s war machine; coordinate organising at ports and transport hubs; plan campaigns to cut contracts and financial ties; pursue accountability through courts; target shipping giants and energy flows; and align strategy across borders.

That evening, the voice of the people will move from workshops to the public square. Francesca Albanese. Greta Thunberg. Omar Barghouti. Hind Khoudary. Jeremy Corbyn. Sally Rooney. Chris Smalls. Yara Hawari. Voices from law, labour, culture, politics, and resistance converging in the historic Dominicuskerk to demand an end to the Nakba.

Two projects now move in parallel.

The Board of Peace, led by the United States and Israel, seeks to stabilise domination. The Hague Group, led by South Africa and Colombia, and supported by the peoples of the world, seeks a world of dignity and liberation.

The future of Palestine will not be decided by messianic claims or reconstruction pledges. It will be shaped by the resistance of Palestinians to dispossession — and whether states and peoples are prepared to sever the material links that sustain annexation, apartheid, and genocide: Decolonise everything, decolonise now.

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18 February - Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934, in Harlem, New York. In her own words, she was a "Black, Feminist, Lesbian, mother, warrior, woman, lover, poet doing my work". She devoted her life’s work to challenging classism, racism, homophobia, and misogyny in her society. Read more about her life and work.

24 February - Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown as President of Ghana in a military coup d’etat backed by the US and the UK on this day in 1966. Read more about Nkrumah’s pan-africanism and the imperial plot to shackle it.

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