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By Terry Glavin

While Canada and other nations recognize Palestine, the author asks “What about the New York Declaration”? The declaration demands Hamas surrenders and gives up all its weapons and releases all its remaining hostages, and requires the replacement of Israeli forces in Gaza with troops from a UN-commanded “temporary international stabilization mission.”  It anticipates a totally reformed and democratic Palestinian Authority that would gradually assume control over Gaza. It requires the complete banishment of Hamas from Palestinian politics altogether.

Hope may seem an odd thing to cling to at the moment. Israel has never been as diplomatically isolated as it is today and the United States, the only ally that really matters to Israel, has never been as diplomatically distant from Europe and the rest of the liberal-democratic world.

If my transgression here is guarded optimism, I can explain it by going back to a standpoint I laid out in the National Post a week after the October 7 atrocities: The Palestinian problem is not Israel’s problem to solve alone.

Here’s where things stood on the day of the October 7 pogrom:

The “international community” was expecting Israel to police jihadist terror throughout the Middle East, and the United Nations had left Israel to carry the burden of a “Palestinian problem” that Israel could not hope to solve on its own.

The Netanyahu government had chosen to pursue a policy of collaborating with the Qataris to funnel billions of dollars into Gaza in the hopes that Hamas would busy itself with the sordid work of “governing” the dystopian exclave. The point was to nurture the divisions between Hamas and its corrupt and decrepit Palestinian Authority rival in the West Bank.

The policy was a catastrophe, and the unpardonable intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to plot, plan and execute its pogrom on October 7 is evidence enough of that.

It’s all to the good that Israel has decapitated Hezbollah, bloodied Khomeinist Iran and crippled the Houthis’ Ansarallah terror regime in Yemen. Israel may not have achieved a home run in its targeted attack on the remaining Hamas leadership in Qatar, but it was definitely an improvement over Netanyahu’s practice of sending escorts to Doha to accompany Qatari officials with satchels stuffed with millions of American dollars into Gaza City.

From the beginning, it has been obvious to close observers that unless the “international community” was prepared to properly address itself to the unsustainable nightmare Israelis and Palestinians were expected to endure, the bloodshed would go on.

Fury over meaningless gestures

For all the handwringing and anger about the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, Portugal and Belgium joining the overwhelming majority of UN member states in the symbolic gesture of recognizing a non-existent Palestinian state, something else has been going on. While much of the Euro-American world has been disappearing up its own backside over whether to erect 150-foot statues of Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, it has gone mostly unnoticed.

It’s why those “Palestinian state” declarations have been piling up, and it’s about more than just the usual cowardice and tendency to appeasement that has afflicted the liberal democracies in recent years. It’s about more than just a Hail Mary now-or-never move against Netanyahu’s determination to foreclose forever, by further annexations in the West Bank, the possibility of a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

It’s the adhesion of Europe, the Arab States, the United Kingdom and almost everybody else to the UN’s Saudi-French “New York Declaration” of July 30. It’s a jumble, and there are holes in it. Even so:

It demands that Hamas surrenders and gives up all its weapons and releases all its remaining hostages, and requires the replacement of Israeli forces in Gaza with troops from a UN-commanded “temporary international stabilization mission.”

It anticipates a totally reformed and democratic Palestinian Authority that would gradually assume control over Gaza. It requires the complete banishment of Hamas from Palestinian politics altogether.

Fully free and fair Palestinian elections within a year: That would be the first test of whether the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas is sincere in his proclaimed agreement with the Declaration, which further anticipates a $53 billion reconstruction program as an alternative to U.S. President Donald Trump’s notion of a building a vast Mediterranean resort where Gaza once was, or whatever the hell that was about. The plan would also require an Israeli government ending its “land grabs” in the West Bank and a formal Israeli renunciation of any annexation project or settlement policy.

The Declaration fudges the unresolvable and non-existent Palestinian “right of return” to properties Israel expropriated after its War of Independence, but that’s a hell of an improvement over pretending that such a right even exists.

It may be impossibly utopian, but necessary, but so what? So was the creation of the State of Israel in the first place.

This is light years ahead of where matters stood on October 7, 2023. So chin up.

And Happy New Year.

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The WEF is plowing full steam ahead with the globalist agenda to monitor and monetize everything in nature, including the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the very earth we walk upon.

With billionaires Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann as the new co-chairs, the World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes a 50-page blueprint on how to monetize everything in nature.

The WEF’s latest insight report, “Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes,” provides “stakeholders” with dozens of financial solutions for monetizing everything in nature.

Nature pricing, biodiversity crediting schemes, natural asset companies, debt-for-nature swaps, and so much more are all packed into this agenda to overhaul the global financial system with nature-based activities:

The landscape of nature finance is rapidly evolving. From sovereign debt instruments and blended capital platforms to biodiversity credits and emerging asset classes, a growing range of mechanisms is being deployed to fund, finance and de-risk nature-positive action.

The WEF leadership page says that in their work on the board of trustees, “members do not represent any personal or professional interests.”

However, the target audiences for latest WEF insight report are “institutional investors, banks, asset managers, and development actors” – the very business interests that Hoffmann and Fink represent.

WEF interim co-chairs Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann have everything to gain in their business dealings should the documentation, monetization, and tokenization of everything in nature ever come to full fruition.

And they are well on their way.

Hoffmann is also a key player in a whole host of so-called green financing initiatives, including biodiversity crediting schemes, through his various roles as founder, president, and chairman at several companies and NGOs such as: Innovate 4 Nature – the “accelerator for nature-positive solutions” and Systemiq – the “system change company” established specifically to advance U.N. Agenda 2030.

“The economy depends on natural resources. Their value derives not only from their use as direct inputs to production – such as timber for construction – but also for their benefits to society like living trees that help clean the air. Economists use the term “natural capital” to refer to the total value that natural resources provide to the economy and to people.” — BlackRock, Capital at risk: nature through an investment lens, August 2024

“Debt-for-nature swaps [DNS] are a financial mechanism that allow countries to restructure bilateral or multilateral debt in exchange for commitments to fund local conservation and restoration. They are also known as ‘debt-for-nature conversion.’” — WEF, Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes, September 2025

Is your country millions, billions, or trillions in debt? No problem!

With debt-for-nature swaps, you can restructure your nation’s debt just by letting somebody else come in and take control of your natural resources under the guise of conservation and restoration, but what they’ll really be doing is forcing you to “take out private insurance policies to ‘mitigate the financial impact of natural disasters‘ as well as ‘political risk,’” as investigative journalists Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin report in Bitcoin Magazine.

Don’t have any money, but want to create value out of thin air, water, soil, or trees? You can set up natural asset companies that can “convert the full economic value of nature into financial flows via equity models.”

Want to help asset managers, bankers, and hedge fund execs get extremely rich while leaving you with only a tiny fraction? Go ahead and get involved in a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme, where financial incentives are provided to individuals or communities in exchange for maintaining or restoring ecosystem services, like carbon sequestration or biodiversity conservation

And if you’re compliant with their rules, you can be rewarded by producing “positive nature and biodiversity outcomes (e.g. species, ecosystems and natural habitats) through the creation and sale of either land or ocean-based biodiversity units over a fixed period” with biodiversity credits, aka “environmental credits.”

Prefer to be left alone and live on the property that you worked hard for all your life? You better be compliant with all the environmental regulations that are coming in the name of preserving biodiversity, so that the $44 trillion of economic value generated by nature doesn’t diminish.

“Environmental credits are verified units of positive environmental outcomes, including biodiversity, water, carbon and nutrient credits. Though developed independently, projects increasingly blend credits via stacking, bundling or stapling.” — WEF, Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes, September 2025

“Nature is rapidly emerging as a strategic investment frontier and more institutional capital is flowing into new business models and projects.” — WEF, Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes, September 2025

In keeping with the own self-interests of the co-chairs and their business relations, the report highlights “10 priority financial solutions” for these stakeholders to implement:

  1. Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs):
    • Commercial bonds tying coupon rates to nature-related targets for corporates or governments.
  2. Thematic (or use-of-proceeds) bonds:
    • Bonds with proceeds earmarked for nature projects. Scaling-up requires clearer guidance and aggregation to improve outcomes for issuers and investors.
  3. Sustainability-linked loans (SLLs):
    • Flexible debt, linking interest rates to nature-related targets. SLLs need simpler verification, standardized metrics and stronger triggers to drive nature-positive lending.
  4. Thematic (or use-of-proceeds) loans:
    • Loans for specific nature-related projects. Greater clarity on taxonomies and aggregation is needed to enhance capital flows.
  5. Impact funds:
    • Funds investing in nature-positive outcomes, often accepting higher risk or longer pathways to returns.
  6. Natural asset companies (NACs):
    • Publicly and privately listed companies that convert the full economic value of nature into financial flows via equity models. NACs hold significant potential but need more transactions for price discovery and replicable investment blueprints.
  7. Environmental credits:
    • Tradeable certificates for verified environmental benefits, used in compliance or voluntary markets.
  8. Debt-for-nature swaps (DNS):
    • Mechanisms to restructure sovereign debt in exchange for conservation or restoration commitments, with investable components including bonds and loans.
  9. Payments for ecosystem services (PES):
    • Contracts rewarding conservation for specific ecosystem services, driven by the public sector. Private sector schemes require longer contracts, aggregation and supply chain integration to scale up.
  10. Internal nature pricing (INP):
    • Unexplored, voluntary shadow pricing or fee-based tools to incentivize nature-positive performance in companies or across investment portfolios, similar to internal carbon pricing (ICP).

“While some components of nature – such as food, timber and ecotourism are priced and traded in global markets, the value of many critical ecosystem services remains undervalued….

Carbon sequestration, water filtration, flood protection and pollination are often treated as ‘free’ inputs, despite underpinning our economies and societies.” — WEF, Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes, September 2025

“The natural capital approach extends the economic concept of capital to the environment, conceptualizing stocks of natural resources as conventional goods worth restoring, maintaining and enhancing for their productive flows.

This approach includes both accounting – embedding nature in national and corporate balance sheets – and valuation – pricing nature’s contributions into cost-benefit and investment analysis.” — WEF, Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes, September 2025

Putting prices on water, air, and soil is a hot topic among globalists at the U.N., the G20, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the COP meetings.

At the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos this year, Singapore’s President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that water credits and biodiversity credits should be “stapled” on to carbon credits.

The year prior, at the 2024 WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos” meeting in communist China, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership CEO Lindsay Hooper told the panel on “Understanding Nature’s Ledger” that every part of the economy depends on nature, and that in order to protect natural systems, one solution would be to “bring nature onto the balance sheet.”

In addition to putting “nature on the balance sheet,” another proposal coming at the end of the panel discussion suggested putting a tax on natural systems like water in the same vein as carbon taxes.

With putting prices on nature comes tokenization and derivatives.

At least that’s what former Bank of England adviser Michael Sheren said at COP27 in November 2022.

“Carbon, we already figured out, and carbon is moving very quickly into a system where it’s going to be very close to a currency, basically being able to take a ton of absorbed or sequestered carbon and being able to create a forward-pricing curve, with financial service architecture, documentation,” said Sheren.

And with carbon being close to a currency, “There are going to be derivatives.”

Now, under the newfound leadership of Fink and Hoffmann, whose personal business dealings stand everything to gain, the WEF is plowing full steam ahead with the globalist agenda to monitor and monetize everything in nature, including the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the very earth that we walk upon.

Reprinted with permission from The Sociable.

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