As the US prepares to present the UN Security Council with a ham peace plan for Gaza, Russia just pulled a fast one on them all. Right, so the United States is walking into the Security Council tomorrow pretending it’s about to unveil a peace plan, when everyone who’s read the documents knows it’s a colour-coded land grab dressed up as diplomacy. They’re calling it stabilisation, which is an interesting choice of wording when the map splits Gaza into a green zone Israel gets to rebuild and police, and a red zone where more than two million Palestinians get penned in like cattle with no reconstruction at all. And they’re pushing it fast, hoping to get a vote in before anyone joins the dots between that map and Israeli ministers openly saying there will never be a Palestinian state and that Gaza will be “cleared” indefinitely. Russia’s already thro ...