Trump’s Gaza Plan: More Details, Same Old Dispossession
The Reuters blip, published by Al-Monitor, mentions Qatari concern over Trump's supposed '20-point plan' for Gaza. Yet, these 'plans' rarely deviate from a central theme: how to manage Palestinians without granting them sovereignty or basic rights. This exact script played out during the 2020 'Deal of the Century,' another Trump-era masterpiece that casually carved up Palestinian land, greenlit
Israeli annexation, and was vehemently rejected by Palestinians and much of the international community. 'Working out details' often means deciding which euphemism to use for ethnic cleansing. We saw this pattern under previous US administrations too, offering 'peace plans' that consistently favored settler-colonial interests, meticulously sidelining Palestinian self-determination. The 'many
details' are likely focused on how to make unilateral land grabs and population transfers sound less genocidal, rather than actually addressing justice. One might wonder, how many times must a plan for 'peace' be put forth that fundamentally denies one side its rights before we start calling it what it truly is: a roadmap for perpetual conflict?