Trump's Deception

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the Trump plan to stop the war in Gaza, while Arab and Islamic countries that the U.S. president met with on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly the week before were welcoming of the U.S. president's efforts to end the war. The state of Palestine did the same, but followed it up with a political vision based on the two-state solution, which is practically absent in the initiative.

What this means is that this welcome does not imply agreement on the plan without "establishing a fair path for peace based on a two-state solution that ensures the full integration of Gaza with the West Bank in accordance with international law."

This initiative entails stopping the war, allowing for humanitarian assistance, preventing forced displacement, reconstruction, and a gradual Israeli withdrawal without guarantees and specific timelines. In return, this plan establishes American guardianship over the Palestinians in Gaza through an international transitional authority and over the West Bank by implementing an "integrity" reform program while dominating economic resources and managing economic development, including reconstruction, treating Palestinians as local residents - without any place for all Palestinian powers and factions in governance - and potentially allowing them political aspirations to determine their fate when "suitable conditions" arise. This means that this plan establishes racial Israeli dominance over the Palestinian people politically by granting it the veto over the establishment of the Palestinian state, and American economic dominance through real estate dealers on Palestinian land.

The Trump deception, meaning the plan announced after negotiations between the U.S. administration and the Israeli government, imposes on the Palestinians to implement it without involving them in negotiations about it and without a clear political horizon. Furthermore, the second Trump deception imposes acceptance and implementation by the Palestinian side within specific deadlines, according to the statements of the White House spokesperson, despite containing clauses that imply obligatory negotiations regarding prisoners, their nature, delivery mechanisms, and others.

In my opinion, relying on "Trump" is meaningless due to his past shortcomings in promises on one hand, and on the other, his constant position on the Palestinian issue; he is (1) a supporter of the idea of expanding Israel geographically, whether during his electoral campaign or in the peace plan announced in 2020, and (2) a believer in the principle of solidifying the reality of "Israeli military occupation" that contradicts international law into a legitimate framework that should acquire benefits and prices from the confiscated "property", and (3) a proponent of the principle of power to achieve peace "surrender" which is the same principle adopted by Netanyahu who believes that "if the Palestinians do not submit to force, then with more force they will submit," and (4) aligns behaviorally with the far-right parties and forces in Israel that reject the rules of law and do not believe in the state institutions and their principles.