By Ilana Mercer
August 19, 2026
The pedestrian, uncontested reality is that the many ceasefires reflect power differentials untempered by a shred of American and Israeli honor or decency...
When Trump is gone, there'll be a new Barnum to oversee the US-Israeli ceasefire circus. ~ilana
Allow me to vent spleen over the many ceasefire "agreements"- 10-point (April 2026), 15-point (August 2026), and the MOU, Memorandum of Understanding in-between-whose details the "experts" continue to belabor and rehash.
Enough already!
Can we quit the cretinous, make-believe commentary over fakery ? Consult a Ouija board if you are in doubt as to how these unilateral things progress. But quit making a mystery of what are manifestly cover operations.
I'll unburden you if you find it hard to untangle and flush what are layers of loo-paper.
The MOU, the " Hormuz talks," the 10-point plan, the 15-point plan, the Gaza 'Peace' Plan, are all pointless as anything other than cover operations.
Ceasefires à la Israel and America, the two symbiotic, congenital liar entities lording it over the universe, are just one more weapon wielded to destroy the Axis of Resistance, or any resistance to Superpower and Sidekick.
Who the dominatrix is and who is the submissive in the US-Israel relationship-that vexation, I venture, has been adjudicated by reality, as well.
Each one of these farcical ploys, the ceasefires, is meant invariably to end in bombs, with blame imputed to their victims. How do I know ? In the same way you ought to know. Reality. Res ipsa loquitur. The thing itself speaks. Screams. Writhes in agony under the rubble.
Did not all of these preordained "negotiated" traps begin with fanfare and end, as described above, in "bombs, with blame imputed to the victims"?
Islamabad was a burlesque to begin with. To arrive at their destination, in April of 2026, the amiable Iranian negotiators had to circumnavigate Israeli assassins, only to confront the tricks and turns and greasy chicanery of the diplomats deputized by another criminal Svengali: Trump.
No sooner was the agreement signed than the US violated it. The Islamabad burlesque continues with an ostensible extension. By the caprice of the same one man, it ended almost as soon as I concluded typing the previous sentence.
The same thing transpires daily in Lebanon, where yesterday, August 17, the Israeli terrorists murdered 11 souls.
When Trump is gone, there'll be a new Barnum to oversee the US-Israeli ceasefire circus.
More obscene even than this is the fate of Gaza. There, so-called ceasefires and prattle about them coincide with bombs.
Kushner's August-16 papal visit to Cairo, to meet with Hamas negotiators, leaders and senior officials; who came to Cairo as an effort " to 'preserve' the Gaza cease-fire"-this had no bearing on the bombs. They kept falling.
For all we know, strikes and talks could have been timed to coincide. For the Jewish-Israeli terrorists, fugitives from justice, kept up their fiendish "operations" across Palestine, irrespective. On the 16th, Israelis killed a " 14-year-old boy in Gaza."
That's about the score!
The process-based case against these ceasefires rests on another pedestrian, uncontested reality: The ceasefires reflect power differentials untempered by a shred of American and Israeli honor or decency.
Distilled, the reality on-a-loop is this:
The victim parties (Axis of Resistance) righteously assert and defend their negative, natural, leave-me-alone rights to live unmolested in sovereign territories, to enforce their riparian rights, namely their control over the waterways that abut their lands, and to trade freely and free of US-Israeli violence.
The impugned victims further insist on their right to reject and eject from their midst the overpowering, enervating presence of the Superpower and its Sidekick.
Media pontificating, picking apart, dignifying these make-believe ceasefire games are partaking in The Big Lie. Layering the loo-paper. This Brownian motion, this constant white noise around the US-Israel ceasefires gambit, is a game. The perpetrator block's victims are like mice before cats.
For those for whom recognition is yet to dawn, the US and Israel lead this orgy of evil and ugly. From Greenland, to Latin America to West Asia to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, powerless peoples are being corralled, bribed or terrorized by the duo, financially, economically and militarily.
Why ? Because, this Axis of Evil views the very acts of asserting and enforcing national sovereignty and self-determination as acts of terroristic resistance, if in defiance of the US-Israeli elite interests and ideas.
Palestinians have been sequestered in an America-approved and assisted genocide for three years. Since Israel's actions have been sanctified at the highest of political altitudes; the genocidal entity has seen fit to add to its extinction list a few more Axis-of-Resistance member states:
The Lebanese, the Yemeni and the Iranians.
This Axis or Resistance enunciates The only Truths, licit in natural and international law, to be found in the clutch of ceasefire documents:
The right of Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemeni and Iranians to live free of Israeli and American violence and to defend that right and each other. The right of the brave people of the Resistance to use their native intelligence and natural resources to benefit their own people. Their right to freely trade the bounty from these natural gifts with other willing entities. To have what was stolen from them returned; and what was damaged and destroyed restored, made whole. In other words-
Not only do Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemeni and Iranians have the right of resistance and the obligation to stop genocide-rights and obligations which are licit in natural and international law-but so do they have the right to recompense. To reparations. Because-
After two genocides and the crimes of unprovoked aggression-the crimes-of-all crimes-comes justice, not peace.
The complicit, impunity conferring Superpower and the Serial-Killer State must cough-up and then f-ck off.
The celebrated Palestinian poet Refaat Al-Areer, RIP, perfectly summed-up the ceasefire farce: "A ceasefire is when the Israelis fire and we cease." By "cease," I believe Al-Areer meant not cease-to-fire, but cease-to-live, as in die; be deprived of life. The same demons came for him in his home before the year 2023 was out.
When, then, will recognition dawn ? In Bushspeak : "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!" (And, W was an expert in untruths.)
In English: Not allowing the clouds to cap your vision is an admirable quality, but allowing them to cloud reality is hardly praiseworthy.
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