A careful reading of the recently announced “ceasefire plan” for Gaza — unveiled by the White House during Donald Trump’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office — leads to one unavoidable conclusion: this is not a genuine regional agreement to end the war, as promoted, but rather an American–Israeli blueprint designed to achieve what the occupation has failed to secure on the battlefield after two years of relentless massacres and genocidal war against Gaza’s population. In reality, it is nothing but a continuation of the “New Middle East” and “Greater Israel” projects, presented now with even greater brazenness.
A Plan of Submission, Not Peace
The document reads more like a surrender treaty than a peace proposal. The resistance is expected to accept it without the right to object, amend, or even request clarifications. Explicit clauses demand:
- The complete disarmament of the resistance.
- The dispersal of its fighters.
- The destruction of its infrastructure, including tunnels and weapons workshops.
On the political front, Gaza would be administered directly by Washington through a so-called Peace Council, chaired personally by Trump. This body would appoint a committee of non-political Palestinian technocrats, with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair assigned a central role in shaping the arrangement.
Most provocatively, the plan treats the people of Gaza as a community in need of “rehabilitation” and “deradicalisation,” effectively accusing an entire population of collective deviation.
Guaranteeing Israel, Ignoring Gaza
While the plan goes into detail about securing Israel’s demands — particularly the release of its captives within 72 hours and its “security needs” during and after withdrawal — it almost completely ignores the basic rights of Gaza’s people.
- There are no guarantees for displaced families to return home.
- No timetable is set for reconstruction or medical care for the wounded and amputees.
- Humanitarian provisions are reduced to a vague promise of 600 trucks of food aid under the 19 January 2025 agreement, effectively maintaining the siege in disguise.
Even more insulting is the language of “amnesty” for resistance fighters who lay down their arms — as though they are criminals rather than defenders resisting a brutal occupation.
The plan also bars Palestinian-linked international agencies from supervising aid distribution, a direct signal to exclude UNRWA following Israel’s smear campaigns.
Gaza as a Marketplace
One clause speaks of rebuilding Gaza in partnership with “specialised international institutions” to create “modern Middle Eastern cities.” This clearly ties Gaza to the earlier Great Trust project designed by Blair and Kushner, turning the Strip into an investment hub for multinational corporations under US–Israeli control.
Thus, the economic dimension is simply the other face of political and security domination: full subjugation of Gaza to American–Israeli hegemony.
Marginalising Palestinian Representation
The plan reduces the Palestinian Authority to a conditional side-note, possibly allowing for future “discussion” of a Palestinian state only as a request, not as a recognised right.
Even the notion of Palestinian–Israeli dialogue is framed through the Abraham Accords, with no mention of direct negotiations or binding commitments from Israel. The aim is clear: a gradual liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
Arab and Islamic Cover
One of the most dangerous aspects is the Arab–Islamic cover engineered for the plan. By mobilising eight Arab and Muslim states to endorse the proposal, Netanyahu boasted:
“Hamas wanted to isolate us internationally, so we isolated it regionally — among Arabs and Muslims.”
This represents a calculated attempt to encircle the resistance from its own environment after military and political efforts to crush it failed.
A Media Stunt Without Real Leverage
The plan exerts media and political pressure on the resistance but lacks genuine operational weight. For two years, neither Washington nor Tel Aviv succeeded in breaking Gaza’s resilience or neutralising the resistance.
One hidden goal, therefore, is to push the resistance into rejecting the plan, so that blame can be shifted onto it for “wasting the last chance for peace” — a desperate manoeuvre to salvage Israel’s collapsing image internationally.
A Broader Threat to the Region
This is yet another chapter in the joint American–Israeli project to reshape the region. What Palestinians are offered today is nothing more than disguised surrender and systematic liquidation of their cause. And the danger does not end with Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem — the plan’s implications extend to Lebanon, Syria, and even Iran.
Resistance as the Last Fortress
Against this backdrop, the steadfastness of the Palestinian resistance remains the final bulwark — not only to defend Gaza, but to preserve the very essence of the Palestinian cause and to prevent the entire region from sliding into a new phase of neo-colonial domination, repackaged under the slogans of “peace” and “reconstruction.”
Trump’s plan is actually an ultimatum to Palestinians and middle east countries:
1). to accept Israel occupation of west bank and Gaza.
2) to accept there will not be a state of Palestine but just a colony to be governed by non-Palestiniana
3) to accept Gaza land to be developed and sold to foreigners
4). To accept Gazans and Palestinians will not own any land
5). To accept Israel superiority in the middle east