The Trump Plan is designed to reframe the issues in favour of Israel. Palestinians have been betrayed again.

A repost from 4 october 2025

The indicted war criminal Netanyahu has got what he wants. The felon, Trump, so eager for a Nobel Peace Prize, has obliged him. Tony Blair’s involvement suggests satire rather than diplomacy.

It is reported that the Plan was designed by Netanyahu’s right-hand man Ron Dermer and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. It was claimed that the Plan was endorsed by (puppet) Arab states. It now seems the Plan they saw was later amended by Netanyahu without their knowledge as to the conditions and timetable for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. It is also reported that the original Trump Plan had 21 points, but only 20 points survived. The dropped point was a commitment by Israel not to annex the West Bank.

As John Whitbeck put it, “Hamas is being offered a choice between accepting injustice, denigration, humiliation and permanent illegal occupation or accepting the credible risk of imminent physical extermination. While many people in Gaza, after suffering through almost two years of unimaginable horror, might now be willing to accept injustice, denigration, humiliation and permanent illegal occupation in return for the possibility of at least temporary shelter, food ,water and survival, early indications are that the Hamas leadership, however and whenever it may now be constituted and located, will choose to adhere to the motto of the US Marine Corps “Death before Dishonour” knowing that death would in any event be likely to follow dishonour if they were to choose otherwise."

If Hamas does not accept the Plan, Trump has told us that Israel can “finish the job”. We have not yet heard the Hamas response. That response will be difficult as Israel has assassinated so much of its leadership.

But if there is any consolation in this Trump Plan, it will pause the mass industrial killing of Palestinians by the IDF.

The Hamas raid in October 2023 is the Israeli excuse and cover for the genocide. The Hamas attack did not occur in a vacuum. The intent of the Israeli response has been to kill or displace Palestinians from Gaza and to continue the century-long ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their own........

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