A few days ago, the White House unveiled a 20-point plan entitled "Peace Plan," which was signed by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and last night, Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced its response to the plan.
This plan was presented as the beginning of a new era for Gaza, and proponents of the plan claim to stop the war and start reconstruction of Gaza. However, a close study of the plan shows that what the Americans and the West have presented as a solution is nothing more than taking concessions and blackmail; ranging from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the occupation of Palestine in 1948, then the poisonous Oslo Accords in 1993, and today what is called the “Trump Peace Plan.”
Details of Trump's plan for Gaza: From deceptive promises to achieving Israel's goals
US President Donald Trump’s plan, which is actually prepared by the Zionist regime and Netanyahu himself, has deceptive promises in practice: stopping war and paving the way for peace but there are the provisions in the plan that carry serious political risks and poses a major threat to the future of Gaza and the entire Palestinian cause.
- First, an immediate ceasefire is presented as a humanitarian approach to stopping the conflict in Gaza. However, this ceasefire is conditional on further steps that make it a trial ceasefire rather than a binding agreement. As a matter of fact, this stage is a test to measure Palestinians to submit to the new terms and conditions.
- Second, the complete disarmament of Hamas under international supervision is at the central part of Trump's plan. Here, the weapons of the Resistance are presented as an obstacle that must be removed, while the occupiers remain armed and strong, which means that there is no talk of peace, but rather the surrender of the Palestinian people to oppression and occupation.
- Third, the prisoner swap and the release of Zionist prisoners from Gaza are presented as a humanitarian step, but within the framework of an ongoing war. Also, it should be kept in mind that, according to the provisions of this plan, a number of Palestinian prisoners who were detained by the occupying regime of Israel during the war are to be released, which is an unfair exchange.
- Fourth, the Israeli withdrawal is presented as a conditional reward, not as an inherent right of the Palestinians in Gaza. The provisions of the Trump plan also emphasize that any violation of the conditions by the Palestinians gives the Israeli occupying forces the right to remain in Gaza, which means that the Israeli army's withdrawal from Gaza is actually a lever of continuous pressure against the Palestinians.
- Fifth, the formation of a transitional government through an institution called the International Peace Council is the most dangerous clause in Trump's plan, because it effectively places Gaza under direct American protectorate, and dangerous individuals such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair are supposed to oversee it.
This scenario reflects various historical experiences, where the transitional government becomes a permanent international government, opening the door to separating Gaza from the West Bank, and this means destroying the Palestinian cause.
-Sixth, according to Trump's plan, the reconstruction of Gaza is a reward for the Palestinians, but it is completely conditional. The budget for the reconstruction of Gaza is managed from abroad and is used as a tool for blackmail; so that the Palestinians in Gaza must accept all the political conditions of the US and Israel in exchange for the reconstruction of Gaza Strip or there will be no reconstruction at all.
- Finally, the most dangerous condition in Trump's plan is his direct threat; with the content that this plan is not a just peace option, but rather a clear ultimatum to the Palestinian people and resistance, in such a way that Trump is publicly telling the Palestinians that you have no choice but to accept this plan with all its terms and conditions, and rejecting it gives Israel the green light to continue the war in a more severe form than before and with full American support.
Therefore, with the clauses that Trump has included in his plan, this plan is transforming from a ceasefire reconstruction project into a complex political game that is covered by slogans of peace, but includes new tools to impose a long-term mandate and destroy the Palestinian national project.
In fact, Trump's plan is not a transient humanitarian or political agreement, but a strategic step to reorganize the foundations of the occupation of Palestine and destroy its national project within the framework of a new form of protectorate.
Through the mechanisms such as establishing direct international management of Gaza affairs and tying the reconstruction agenda to political and security conditions, the Trump plan’s humanitarian promises are transformed into tools of political pressure. Thus, rather than being a plan to help the people of Gaza and end the war, the Trump plan is a roadmap to redraw the political reality of Palestine in a way that aligns with Israeli interests.
Trump's dangerous Gaza plan: A plan to destroy Palestinian cause
These complex dimensions require us to examine the dangerous effects Ttump plan for Gaza to understand the strategy behind its slogans and to discover what lies behind the humanitarian and security aspects of this plan.
Before we delve into the details and nature of Trump's plan, we should know that what is being presented today is not simply a proposal for the reconstruction of Gaza or a political agreement to end the war; it is rather a precise extension of historical political formulas against Palestine that have been repeated over the past decades and encompass the same basic goals.
The Trump's plan is neither a random plan nor a random set of clauses; rather, it is a carefully designed network of strategic traps, and its goal is not simply to manage a crisis, but to reproduce an old experience of marginalizing Palestinian rights and turning the Palestinian national project into a technical dossier and temporary agenda on the path to its ultimate destruction.
This plan is the cornerstone of an integrated system that seeks to shape the political reality of Palestine under a new guise: humanitarian and security slogans that conceal the mechanisms of a long-term mandate and a new political division.
The Trump’s plan for Gaza is merely tools in a larger scheme designed to establish a reality that legitimizes and perpetuates the occupation. Therefore, to counter this reality, it is not enough to simply superficially study Trump’s plan; rather, it must be analyzed in detail, line by line, to reveal the depth of the dangers of the strategic plan behind it.
Here, the analysis takes us to the next stage; namely, the discovery of hidden dangers at the central part of the Trump's plan, where, clause by clause, it reveals precise strategic tools aimed at systematically changing the reality of Palestine, destroying its national project and sovereignty behind the cover of humanitarian and security.
This process is not limited to simply redrawing the map of the occupation of Palestine, but rather targets the essence of the Palestinian cause with its political and humanitarian dimensions, and challenges the future of the Palestinians, especially at the level of the right to self-determination.
1st danger, From a Temporary Promise to a Permanent Reality
The Palestinian developments throughout the history teach us that temporary expressions often become permanent laws; from the Balfour Declaration to the Oslo Accords, Palestinians have witnessed how temporary promises have become political realities, calling into question the Palestinian national project.
The Trump plan proposes a transitional institution to govern Gaza, consisting of international forces, and claims that this is a temporary process, but a careful study of it shows that such an institution has a high operational and administrative capacity that ensures its continuity.
Therefore, a new political reality will soon be imposed on Palestine through this same institution, according to which, Gaza and the West Bank will be officially separated and the national project will be marginalized.
2nd Danger: turning the natural and obvious rights of Palestinians into a technical and security case
The history of Palestine is full of attempts to marginalize the political rights of its people, turn these rights into a security or technical issue, and strip them of their political essence.
Today, in Trump's plan, the demand for Hamas' disarmament has become a prerequisite for the reconstruction of Gaza, while the issue of the Israeli occupation and its weapons have not been addressed at all.
The result of this is that political dimension of the Resistance is marginalized and the political rights of all Palestinians are ignored.
3rd Danger: economic temptation in exchange for renouncing political rights
This clause is the most dangerous aspect of Trump's plan because it reproduces a historic bargain: the promise of prosperity in exchange for the surrender of rights.
The Balfour Declaration promised development projects to the Palestinians, provided they surrendered their basic rights. The same happened in the Oslo Accords, which made the Palestinian Authority (PA) dependent on international funding in exchange for renouncing basic Palestinian political rights.
Today, Trump's plan promises a new "resurgence" for the Palestinians, administered by international institutions. In other words, the most basic right of the Palestinians, the reconstruction of their homes, has been turned into a tool for political blackmail.
The result is that, if this plan is implemented, Gaza will always have a fragile economy, absolute dependence, and a place without freedom and without sovereignty.
4th Danger: Postponing Essential & Basic Issues
Postponing the main issues to the next stage is a tool to prolong the Zionist occupation of Gaza and to change the reality of this strip.
Previous agreements such as Oslo also included the same tactic, and today Trump's plan repeats this tactic with a more attractive formula, keeping fundamental issues in suspense without a timetable or any guarantees.
The result of implementing this clause is the reconstruction of Gaza without sovereignty, a ceasefire without a solution to end the conflict or a guarantee for a permanent cessation of the war, and turning the transitional phase into an end goal that will destroy the Palestinian national project.
5th Danger: International Protectorate and Political Cleansing
The proposal to establish an international council to govern Gaza is nothing more than a new protectorate in a contemporary form. It presents itself under the guise of neutrality and technicality, but it means delegitimizing and depriving the Palestinians of their fundamental right to sovereignty over their land, and granting decision-making power to external parties.
The result of implementing this clause is to transform Gaza into a dependent entity separate from the national will, which is a threat to the Palestinian national project.
6th Danger: Threat of Violence as a Tool for Negotiation
Palestinian history is full of many examples of the use of force to impose political conditions, and the same equation is repeated with greater clarity today, where the Trump plan explicitly warns that any opposition to the plan will be accompanied by an escalation of US-backed Israeli military attacks on Gaza.
The result of this clause is to entrench the logic of surrender by force, and the idea that peace for the Palestinians means their absolute surrender; not the realization of their just rights.
7th Danger: The Partition of Palestine and Fragmentation of the National Project
The provisions of the Trump plan actually seek to destroy the Palestinian national project by completely dismembering the land and turning Palestinian lands into fragmented lands without sovereignty.
The creation of a separate entity to manage Gaza by international parties would serve the interests of the occupying regime entirely and undermine any prospects for Palestinian national unity.
Reviving the Balfour Declaration and Oslo Accords with New Embellishments
The main idea that emerges from Trump's plan is that it is not simply a proposal to resolve the Zionist-Palestinian conflict; it is rather a sophisticated update of old tools for dissolving the Palestinian issue.
The new techniques introduced by the Trump plan include the formation of an international council to manage Gaza, large reconstruction projects, clever media marketing, and prominent international names that give the plan a new look, but the main essence of the Trump plan is the same as that of the Balfour Declaration and the Oslo Accords: managing the Palestinian issue in a way that ultimately leads to its elimination.
Dangers of Trump's Israeli plan for region
These new tools proposed in the Trump plan, which is actually an Israeli plan, are a prelude to a long-term project that will prolong and consolidate the Israeli occupation.
But the next, more dangerous step of this plan is as part of a broader strategy to reorder the entire Middle East. This strategy is based on several interconnected topics:
-First, regional normalization: The administrative division of Gaza proposed in the Trump plan would place Gaza under international management, separate it from the West Bank, and undermine the Palestinian cause as a single political project.
This fragmentation and division in Gaza make it easier to expand the project of normalizing relations between Israel and Arab countries under the guise of humanitarian action or economic peace, with Arab forces working alongside Israeli forces without the presence of Palestinian forces in Gaza. This plan is therefore a gateway to expanding normalization agreements under international management and free from Palestinian pressure.
- Second, energy security and economic resources: Rebuilding Gaza and creating massive economic projects can serve as a means of economic connectivity and regional integration that serves Israel's interests.
This process involves linking Gaza reconstruction projects to partnerships with large corporations and wealthy countries, and positioning Gaza as an economic hub in the region’s energy networks, ports, and trade corridors—a Gaza that will then be under Israeli control and free of Palestinians.
-Third, pillars of regional influence: The formation of an international council to govern Gaza would reshape the concept of Palestinian sovereignty within the framework of international protectorate, which would have profound implications for the political landscape of the region.
International control of the Gaza Strip will not be a purely domestic event; it will be a strategic step in a broader project to influence the region, in which the United States and Western countries will play a central role, using tools such as Israel's economic and political normalization with Arab countries to dominate the region.
How can Palestinians save their cause?
Observers believe that the Palestinians' rational engagement with this poisonous plan must be based on a deep understanding of the nature of the challenge that the plan poses and on Palestinians' strategic capacity to unite themselves and transform the issue of confronting the occupation into a realistic and unified Palestinian action plan.
A symbolic rejection of the plan was not enough; it must be backed up by clear red lines defining the Palestinian national condition, such that no real reconstruction can be accepted unless it is accompanied by a clear timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces and full Palestinian control over the crossings. This means restoring sovereignty over the land, not merely economic or humanitarian projects without guarantees.
This requires Palestinian unity and amity to reject any management imposed from outside without the full participation of Palestinian national institutions, including resistance groups, the Palestinian National Council, judicial institutions, and representatives of Palestinian civil society.
Palestinian unity and amity at this stage is a strategic weapon that prevents external attempts to divide the country and impose a new reality. Linking the reconstruction of Gaza to absolute Palestinian sovereignty over the Strip should be a constitutional law.
Financial budget agreements for the reconstruction of Gaza should also be drafted with terms that ensure the gradual transfer of ownership and operational capacity to Palestinian institutions through clear and established mechanisms.
This ensures that the reconstruction of Gaza does not become a tool for blackmail or protectorate, but rather a step towards restoring national sovereignty.
On the legal and political level, the Palestinians must pursue a unified national movement to pursue this plan in international fora and impose binding and enforceable conditions that ensure that the administration of Gaza does not fall under permanent foreign management. In this regard, the Palestinians must turn to the UN Security Council (UNSC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and international human rights organizations to establish the principle that national rights are non-negotiable.
At the same time, there must be an international media campaign aimed at exposing the mechanisms of political and economic blackmail, revealing the background of the plan and the history of similar formulas that the Palestinians have experienced, in order to create international and domestic awareness about the issue that the Trump plan is not a peace plan; rather, it is a long-term reconstruction project that holds the future of the Palestinians hostage to foreign protectorate.
This media campaign must be based on a documented historical narrative, legal evidence, and a well-calculated media strategy aimed at destroying the propaganda cover of Trump's plan and attracting international condemnation for it.
With this strategy, the Palestinians can use political and legal force to reject Trump's toxic plan and bring the Palestinian issue back to the center of the equation.
Why do we consider Hamas' response to Trump's plan to be rational?
Finally, in light of the response that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, gave to Trump's plan, it is necessary to examine the various dimensions of this response, which was actually an tactful response; where Hamas, by taking responsibility for stopping the genocidal war of the Zionist enemy against Gaza, did not back down from its original conditions and applied precise and intelligent considerations to this plan.
Perhaps, some want to interpret Hamas' response as surrender and acceptance of the Trump plan, which is in line with the interests of the Zionist regime, but the reality is that Hamas' response has several fundamental differences with the Trump plan:
- Emphasis on the need to discuss details: The Trump plan does not mention the details of negotiations with the Hamas movement, and what is discussed about details is related to issues that Hamas should not have any participation in. However, the movement emphasized that Hamas will participate responsibly in issues related to the future of Gaza and the rights of the Palestinian people, and that Hamas is a Palestinian national liberation movement, and the concept of "terrorism" mentioned in the Trump plan does not make sense for this movement.
- Emphasis on handing over the management of Gaza to a Palestinian entity consisting of independent individuals in accordance with the Palestinian national consensus: Trump's plan refers to international management, and in fact, international condominium over Gaza, and there is no mention of the presence of Palestinians in the executive committee of the Gaza management, but Hamas emphasized this principle.
- Emphasis on relying on Arab and Islamic support for the future of Gaza: Trump's plan was limited to merely consulting and consulting with some Arab countries, but Hamas places fundamental emphasis on Arab and Islamic support for the future of Gaza.
- Emphasis on the Palestinian national framework: Hamas considered the inherent rights of the Palestinians to be a national and comprehensive position based on international laws and decisions that must be examined within a comprehensive Palestinian national framework. This is despite the fact that none of the clauses of the Trump plan mentioned this issue.
- Emphasis on international laws and decisions: The Hamas movement has quite intelligently and wisely used the term international laws and decisions for the future of Palestine, because it knows that many of the provisions of the Trump plan violate international laws, and therefore it is not possible to implement this plan by citing international laws, and Hamas can refer to international decisions and laws in future negotiations to gain concessions.
- Emphasis on Hamas' continued role: Various clauses of Trump's plan refer to the elimination of Hamas, the deportation of officials and members of this movement outside Gaza, and its disarmament. However, Hamas, in its response to this plan, has emphasized the need for this movement's responsible participation in the Palestinian national framework.
- Emphasis on keeping Palestinian weapons: While Trump's plan calls for the complete disarmament of the resistance and the Palestinian people and the demilitarization of Gaza, Hamas insists on handing over weapons to the future Palestinian government, which means that Palestinian weapons will remain.
- Accordingly, observers believe that Hamas' response cannot be considered an acceptance of the Trump plan in its current form, and we must wait for future developments to see whether negotiations will take place or not. Also, contrary to Trump's claims and rhetoric, it is not possible to specify an exact time for a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner swap.
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