The Trump Administration announced on September 29, 2025, that it has designed a “Peace Plan” to end the “war” in Gaza; on October 13, 2025, this so-called “Peace Plan” was signed. If the situation were not serious it would be the comedy statement of the year. Despite its overall fallacy and ridiculousness, some elements of the “peace proposal” needs to be mentioned here for context 

The “Peace Plan” – Colonization Continued

The “peace plan” includes that the governance of Palestine, will be assigned to a “technocratic apolitical Palestinian committee comprised of qualified Palestinians, and “international experts” that would form a transitional body, temporarily. This transitional body would be accountable to a “Board of Peace” chaired by Donald Trump (sic) and would include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It should be remembered that it was the British Empire, through its Balfour Declaration, which set in motion the Palestinian holocaust, which continues to this day. Blair, who sided with George Bush and help pushed the “weapons of mass destruction” propaganda, leading up to the invasion of Iraq by the United States. Contingent on this “governance” is that the Palestinian Authority has to overhaul its organization and implement reforms; further, the US would work with Arab and international allies to send into Gaza an “International Stabilization Force,” to train Palestinian police force. Egypt and Jordan are expected to support the enlistment of recruits, for operations in Palestine; two countries which have been lukewarm and impotent in their solidarity and support of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

This Plan, just as all those before it, is meticulously crafted to benefit the oppressor, Israel; at the same time, extraordinarily little and in some instances, nothing is said regarding the interests of the Palestinian people. In fact, and most critically, none of the talks and crafting of this sham, involved the Palestinians; it was shoved on them. The corporate media makes much of the provision to release the remaining Israeli hostages and the bodies of those who have died. There are hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including children, held without charge for years in Israeli prisons; many of them subjected to torture and other forms of inhumane treatment. Where are the corporate media and public concern for these people? Once again it clearly shows the dehumanization of Palestinian life, the double standard used in empathy and the racist policies of Israel and its collaborators. At the time of this writing, there have been hostage/prisoner exchange on both sides.

The fundamental issue with this “snow job” Plan, is that it totally and painstakingly omits any serious and enforceable specifics and timetables; except for the release of hostages by Hamas within 72-hours after the ceasefire. Nothing regarding the end to the Israeli illegal occupation of Palestine; nothing regarding the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, which is the fundamental basis for the resistance. The naming of this ceasefire agreement as a “peace plan” is a misnomer and is deliberately misleading. Any consideration and realization of peace must begin with the observance of mutual respect, the acknowledgement of Palestine as an independent sovereign nation, the withdrawal of all occupying forces from Palestinian territory, and the self-governing right of the Palestinian people. This presupposes the right of Palestine to defend itself by any and all means necessary, from occupation, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and Apartheid. Anything less is the same old, same old, a continuation of Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestine.

What’s Behind the Demonization of Hamas

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) is not a “terrorist organization;” let us begin with this fact. Despite the popular Zionist narrative and adopted by their sympathizers and collaborators, Hamas is one of the representatives of the Palestinian people. A people engaged in persistent struggle for self-determination, National Liberation, an end to the illegal occupation, genocide, and Apartheid, that they have been subjected to by Israel for 77 years. Political, racial, or national bias does not change this objective reality. When the people of Gaza in 1987 elected Hamas as their organizational representative, Israel and their international collaborators, headed by the United States, decried the election results; and, used armed force to dissolve the results of the election and isolate Hamas.

Mahoud Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Authority - Photo, jns.org

The intent of Israel, which is materially and financially backed by the United States, is obvious; remove all potential for resistance to the occupation, completely clear Gaza through Genocide and the demolition of infrastructure, preparing the way for Israel to expand their illegal settlements to create a “greater Israel.” Modern social history has not seen such barbarism carried out against humans, rivaled only by the decimation of the indigenous peoples of the Americas by Christopher Columbus and his cutthroats. Israel’s bedfellow the United States, also has a history of barbarism and genocide, in its treatment of the Native Americans; the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee are indelible atrocities of US social history.

The persistent call for Hamas to disarm is another blatant attempt to pacify, nullify, and makes a mockery of decades of struggle by the resistance movement of Palestine for self-determination and sovereignty. Further, Israel and the United States cannot be trusted to honor any Agreement; Israel has never done so in the 77 years they have occupied Palestine, and the United States has never kept one Treaty with the Native Americans. The insidiousness of Israel began even before the formation of the Israeli State; there have always been a Zionist ideology driving Israel’s actions in Palestine. In his book Hamas Contained, author Tareq Baconi writes: “In October 1935, the threat of the Zionist forces in Palestine was confirmed. The discovery of a secret arms shipment in the Jaffa harbor affirmed to the Palestinians that the Jewish settlers in their midst were arming their militias for an eventual confrontation to take control of Palestine.” The Nakba, the catastrophe of 1948 was the climax of this insidiousness.

In the context of an occupied people facing genocide and extermination, why would an end to resistance including an end to armed struggle be an option? Even with this sham ceasefire Agreement, the killing of Palestinians continue on a daily basis. The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that within 24 hours of the ceasefire Agreement, Israel had killed 23 people and wounded 122. In the struggle for National Liberation, the right to self-determination, human dignity and National sovereignty, resistance is an imperative necessity. One national leader had put it best: “peaceful, if possible, violent if necessary.”

Peace Without Justice is Dead

It is understood that any action that stops the relentless bombing of Gaza is welcomed, even if temporary; it gives the victims a chance at emotional and psychological relief, and a chance to return to their neighborhoods. This “peace plan” is nothing about peace; it is an ultimatum to surrender resistance to occupation and a “normalization” of colonial rule by Israel. Israel and the United States are making sure that any potential for resistance, especially organized resistance, is crushed and without “teeth.” Since 2004 the noted Palestinian activist Marwan Barghouti has been serving five life sentences plus forty years, in Israeli prisons. None of the lists of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release had his name listed; to-date none of the talks surrounding Palestinian prisoners in Israel, are about his release.

Marwan Barghouti, jailed member of the Palestinian Legislative Council

This “peace deal” represents a formalization of Israel’s ongoing colonization of Palestine; Gaza is just the final phase of Israel’s decades long plan for the region. As long as Palestine continues to be occupied, settlement expansion continues and Palestine is rendered fragmented and without organized leadership, any talk about Palestinian Statehood or “two-state” solution, is empty rhetoric and, nothing but propagandist distraction. Israel already controls approximately 77% of historic Palestine’s land. Meaningful peace can only be achieved without colonial occupation and dominance and, the recognition and practice of treating Palestinians as part of the global community. Finally, any “peace plan” must contain reparations by Israel and the United States, for the human and material destruction they carried out in Palestine. That will guarantee real peace, which will be justice.