Donald Trump finally arrived in the region to reaffirm the implementation of his “peace plan” — a plan whose first phase was executed only in part. For the occupying entity, “ending the war” on Gaza does not mean a true ceasefire. It means transforming the war into new forms — the kind of systematic violence well known to Palestinians in the West Bank, and now deeply familiar to the people of southern Lebanon, who, alongside the Palestinians, are paying the highest price in confronting Zionist aggression.
Ironically, similar assaults continue to strike parts of Syria, even though the Zionist regime initiated attacks there unprovoked. On Tuesday, 14 October, five Palestinians in Gaza were killed under the pretext of “crossing the yellow line” — a new boundary invented by Trump’s plan. Such claims will soon multiply, providing endless pretexts for new rounds of bloodshed.
Punishment Beyond War: Siege, Starvation, and the Politics of Vengeance
Beyond bombings and assassinations, “Israel” now employs collective punishment as a weapon: tightening the siege, closing crossings, and obstructing reconstruction efforts.
At the time of writing, the occupation had announced the closure of the Rafah crossing (15 October), further suffocating the already besieged population.
Even in what should have been the simplest file — the prisoner exchange — the Zionist regime manipulated the process. It reduced the number of freed detainees serving life sentences, excluded the major figures of all national factions, and deliberately kept most Hamas prisoners behind bars, despite the movement’s central role in the 7 October Operation and its two-year-long struggle under relentless bombardment and global betrayal.
The statistics reveal a striking paradox: Hamas succeeded in freeing hundreds from other factions — including most life-term prisoners from Fatah — while its own fighters remain imprisoned. Yet history shows that many will still attack Hamas, forgetting it was the only Palestinian movement that ever negotiated successful prisoner exchanges from within occupied Palestine itself.
The Gaza Epic: A Palestinian Struggle That Shook Empires
This entire event — from beginning to end — is Palestinian in essence: born from suffering, shaped by steadfastness, and defined by the kind of endurance that breaks mountains and humbles nations.
A small, besieged community crammed into 365 square kilometres has endured what no other society could.
This is not mere celebration. It is a cry of pain, pride, and mourning all at once — a recognition that no words of victory can mask the agony of loss, the wounds that never heal, or the betrayal by neighbours and supposed allies. The scale of Gaza’s devastation — physical, emotional, and moral — remains beyond comprehension, even for those witnessing it daily.
Yet despite it all, the resistance remains standing, proving that the will of a people rooted in faith cannot be extinguished by bombs, nor bought by political bribes dressed as “peace initiatives.”
From Gaza’s Blood to a Diplomatic Stage: The Sharm El-Sheikh Summit
While Gaza bleeds, the region’s leaders race to capitalise politically.
At Washington’s request, Egypt invited Netanyahu to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit, a move even Netanyahu rejected — fearing an image of himself shaking hands with the Palestinian president or hearing speeches about a “two-state solution,” which could jeopardise his alliance with Israel’s religious-nationalist bloc.
What makes this episode worse is Egypt’s duality: it is among the states that signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — yet it acted as the first Arab state to undermine the Court’s decision to pursue Netanyahu for war crimes. Instead of isolating a war criminal, Cairo helped rehabilitate him under the banner of diplomacy, parading the summit as an Egyptian “achievement.”
The So-Called “Guarantee Document”: The New Face of Trump’s Plan
The so-called “Document of Guarantees”, published on the White House’s official website as “Trump’s Declaration for Lasting Peace and Prosperity,” echoes Trump’s earlier 2020 plan — “Peace to Prosperity,” infamously known as the Deal of the Century.
The new document was co-signed by Trump and the leaders of the mediating states: Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey — the latter joining only after two years of mass killings, once Erdoğan sensed an opportunity to gain political leverage and economic benefit.
The declaration states:
“We support and stand behind President Trump’s sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza.”
Yet nowhere does it mention a Palestinian state, the right to self-determination, or justice for the victims of genocide. Instead, it offers hollow phrases:
“We recognise that lasting peace is one in which both Palestinians and Israelis can prosper while their basic human rights, security, and dignity are safeguarded.”
No mention of occupation, no acknowledgment of the power imbalance between the oppressed and the oppressor — only language that morally equates the coloniser and the colonised. Worse still, the document implicitly condemns Palestinian resistance by declaring:
“We are united in our determination to dismantle extremism and radicalism in all forms, for no society can thrive when violence and racism are normalised.”
Under this deceptive rhetoric, armed resistance against occupation is branded “extremism”, while genocidal warfare is rebranded as self-defence and a path to prosperity.
The most dangerous clause welcomes “progress in establishing comprehensive and lasting peace arrangements in Gaza, as well as friendly and fruitful relations between Israel and its regional neighbours.”
In other words: the blood of Gaza has been used to legitimise a new phase of the Abrahamic normalisation process — transforming genocide into an entry ticket for regional integration under Zionist leadership.
Exploiting Tragedy: From Liberation to Capitulation
The epic of Gaza — in its suffering and heroism — offered the peoples of this region a chance for liberation and dignity. It exposed the myth of Zionist invincibility and proved that a small besieged population could paralyse one of the world’s most militarised states, despite its American backing and technological supremacy.
Yet, apart from a few regional resistance movements that shared in Gaza’s struggle, most governments betrayed this opportunity.
They chose instead to cash in on Palestinian blood, seeking narrow political and economic gains. Once again, as history repeats from the late Ottoman era to this day, Palestine’s pain became a bargaining chip — this time to restore a regional order in which Israel reigns supreme.
The halted genocide is thus rebranded as “humanitarian diplomacy,” masking the continuation of occupation, colonisation, and oppression — a false peace that serves only to prettify subjugation.
Conclusion
Trump’s so-called “peace” initiative is not a plan to end war — it is a blueprint for controlled subjugation.
Washington and its allies have turned the blood of Gaza’s martyrs into an official document of normalisation, sanctifying a political order where the killers are welcomed as peacemakers, and the victims are lectured about “extremism.”
But history will not forget. The people of Gaza have already written their chapter in the book of honour — and no document signed in Washington or Sharm El-Sheikh can erase the truth of their sacrifice.
