Trump's 'Bar Hamas' Plan Ignores 50 Years of Occupation.
The premise of Al Jazeera's piece, framing a Trump-era 20-point plan for Gaza, neatly avoids the core issue: 'resistance' is the inevitable response to over 50 years of military occupation, settlement expansion, and blockades. These 'plans' consistently ignore historical context, like the 2005 Gaza disengagement that merely tightened the blockade, turning Gaza into what Human Rights Watch has
called an 'open-air prison.' The question isn't what's next for resistance, but when will the world recognize that removing an occupying force is not a 'resistance problem' to be solved, but a liberation movement to be addressed. Instead of addressing the root causes—like the 76 years of displacement since 1948—the US and its allies continue to offer blueprints for Palestinian behavior, not
Israeli accountability. These plans effectively ask whether the occupied population can be persuaded to accept their permanent subjugation. One might wonder, how many 'new' plans will it take to acknowledge that an entire people cannot simply be wished away, or strategically 'managed' into submission?