Trump's 'Gaza Plan': Another Real Estate Deal Without Palestinians?
The New Arab reports on the 'uncertainty' surrounding Trump's vague Gaza plan during Doha talks, framing it as if the former president's musings are a serious policy proposal. This narrative conveniently sidesteps the consistent pattern: foreign powers drafting post-conflict plans for a population they've actively dispossessed. Trump's previous 'Deal of the Century' was universally rejected by
Palestinians and widely seen as a non-starter designed purely for Israeli benefit. It proposed a fragmented pseudo-state for Palestinians, a 'capital' in Abu Dis near Jerusalem, and, critically, zero input from those it claimed to help. One might wonder why these conversations always seem to happen about Palestinians, rarely with them. The 'uncertainty' isn't about Trump's genius, but about how
gracefully Western media can ignore Palestinian agency while discussing their future from thousands of miles away. It's not a 'plan'; it's a televised negotiation over someone else's property, a tradition dating back to the Balfour Declaration, now updated for cable news.