Trump’s 20-point “Peace Plan”: Submission or Death

JVL Introduction

Global Jews for Palestine has member organisations in twenty countries, JVL is one of those members, Together we issued this statement on Trump’s plan, which is not a peace plan but perhaps, at best, a plan for subjugation in exchange for (possibly) not being bombed or starved.Trump

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Global Jews statement on the Trump Plan

On Monday (September 29th), after a meeting with Netanyahu, Trump presented a so-called “peace plan” consisting of 20 points and gave Hamas 3-4 days to respond. This is an undisguised plan of colonial conquest that goes beyond the collaboration arrangement with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and instead stipulates the establishment of an “International Stabilization Force” with the war criminal Tony Blair as a kind of governor. It also requires the victims of the genocide – not its perpetrators – to be “deradicalized” and demilitarized.

In exchange for the Israeli hostages, 250 Palestinian men and 1,700 women and children are to be released, completely ignoring the fact that their very imprisonment was already an act of violence contrary to international law. Clearly the overall aim is Western control of land and resources, with maximum profit for Trump and his cronies.

Immediately after the presentation of the plan, Netanyahu told reporters in Hebrew that he had absolutely no intention of adhering to its terms. He said, “Now the entire world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms we set together with President Trump: to release all our hostages, both living and deceased, while the IDF remains in most of the Strip. Who would have believed this? After all, people constantly say, the IDF should withdraw… No way, that’s not happening.” This made it clear that the absurd “peace plan” is a brutal farce in which Hamas is expected to make an impossible “choice” between death and total submission to the powers that are currently subjecting its people to a genocidal campaign of destruction.

It seems obvious that this plan is not intended to be accepted. Rather, it is designed to be unacceptable to Hamas. The frequently demonstrated fact that the Israel has no interest in genuine negotiations was made clear most recently by the Israeli attack in Qatar. At the end of this farce, Trump and Netanyahu can claim that an offer was made but rejected, and that therefore they are continuing. Trump explicitly stated that Israel could do whatever it wanted if Hamas did not agree to the terms.

None of us can dictate to the people of Gaza how to respond. Many on the ground are saying that although the Trump-Israel offer is corrupt and colonial, with no say in the matter for Palestinians themselves, Hamas and Islamic Jihad should still take it because anything that stops the assault and brings in food and medicine is worth it. Unfortunately, Netanyahu’s open disregard for the terms calls into question whether accepting the deal would even have this outcome.

It is also notable that after two years of relentless bombing, the disarmament of Palestinian resistance groups is still being demanded and Israel, a nuclear power pumped full of US and European weapons, has not yet managed to defeat these groups. In addition, most of the resistance weapons are made of recycled unexploded Israeli ordnance, which will not be removed from Gaza for a long time. In carpet bombing Gaza, Israel itself has made disarmament impossible.

For us, one thing has always been clear: Palestine’s future must be decided by Palestinians. Not by American billionaires and certainly not by the power that has colonized it for almost 80 years.

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