by Amal Zadok
Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza is not only fatally flawed—it is a sham, designed to fail from the outset. It depends on the supposed integrity of two of the region’s most transparently dishonest figures: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Both men have proven, time and again, that their word means nothing. Netanyahu, a master of delay and deceit, has a long record of pledging ceasefires, reforms, or humanitarian relief, only to shred those commitments the moment his political survival is at stake. To expect him to honor this “plan” is to ignore decades of duplicity and corruption.
Trump’s record is no better. He torched the Iran nuclear deal after years of painstaking diplomacy and routinely undermined earlier Israeli-Palestinian frameworks. His “America First” posture has always been a thin disguise for siding with Israel’s military machine, something he openly confirmed even at the unveiling of this plan. Expecting him to act in good faith is a fool’s bargain.
The plan itself is a hollow fraud. It offers no enforcement mechanisms, no accountability, and no guarantees. If Hamas disarms or frees hostages, what prevents Netanyahu and Trump from walking away, extending Israel’s military occupation, delaying prisoner releases, or shifting the goalposts yet again? Nothing. It is deliberately written as a vague list of “principles” instead of a binding framework, giving both leaders the freedom to sabotage it at will and then cynically blame the Palestinians.
Most damning of all, neither Trump nor Netanyahu has ever respected Palestinian rights, dignity, or self-determination. Their plan is capitulation dressed up as peace. It erases accountability, strips away independent oversight, and makes international guarantees worthless the moment Israel resumes its campaign of genocide and repression.
This is not a roadmap to peace—it is a script for endless war, cycles of destruction, and permanent injustice, masked as diplomacy.
The hypocrisy is staggering. The plan demands the total exclusion of Hamas and all affiliated Palestinian political figures from Gaza’s future. In other words, it denies a significant portion of the Palestinian people any form of political representation. Yet there is no parallel demand for Israel to purge its own failed and corrupt leadership.
On the contrary, Netanyahu, whose government faces credible allegations of genocide and catastrophic policies, is handed a starring role as “peace partner” and enforcer.
The document says nothing about reforming Israeli politics or forcing Netanyahu’s exit. There is no requirement for new elections, no accountability for a government drowning in internal corruption, no check on Israeli impunity. Instead, the plan entrenches Netanyahu’s power while dictating the forced restructuring of Palestinian society under Israel’s terms.
This is not peace. It is a one-sided diktat—designed to strip Palestinians of political voice while cementing Israeli dominance and shielding corrupt leaders from consequences. It guarantees only one thing: that distrust, violence, and cycles of impunity will deepen, making true peace more distant than ever.
©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.
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