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«The Deal of the Century» or a Surrender of Conscience?
How Trump and Netanyahu Staged a Grotesque “Peace” Farce to Liquidate Palestine.
Theater of the Absurd at the White House
The picture presented to the world at the joint press conference of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was so brazen in its cynicism that it could be mistaken for a grotesque parody, were it not for the tens of thousands of corpses in Gaza and the fate of an entire people hanging in the balance. Two politicians, themselves under the shadow of international justice and mired in domestic corruption scandals, took the stage to proclaim “lasting peace in the Middle East.” Their smiles and mutual praise were not merely hypocritical; it was a dance on human bones, a ritual spit in the face of international law and anyone who still dares to speak of justice.
Trump, with his penchant for delirious improvisation, and Netanyahu, the old fox of Israeli politics and a master of double-dealing, presented the world not with a peace plan, but with an ultimatum. Their so-called 20-point “deal” is not a roadmap to end suffering, but a detailed instruction manual for the surrender of the Palestinian national project, thinly veiled in ambiguity and outright lies. This plan is not merely a “settlement”; it is an ideological weapon designed to finally and irrevocably bury the dream of a Palestinian state and cement a system of Israeli domination that can already be called apartheid.
“Lasting Peace” as a Euphemism for Permanent Occupation
Trump’s statements that his plan offers “the Palestinian people a chance for peace” and calls on them to “take responsibility for their own future” are a textbook example of colonial arrogance not seen since the era of the British Mandates. What kind of “responsibility” is it when all the terms are dictated by the occupying power, armed to the teeth and fully backed by the world’s sole superpower? It is like holding a gun to someone’s head and telling them to “take responsibility” for their life by agreeing to eternal servitude.
A key point that so-called liberal commentators in the West are trying to sidestep is Netanyahu’s declaration: “For the foreseeable future, Israel will retain overriding security responsibility, including the establishment of a security perimeter.” Let’s call it what it is: “security responsibility” and a “security perimeter” are diplomatic synonyms for “permanent military occupation.” Gaza, even after the hypothetical disarmament of Hamas, will remain a giant open-air prison, with Israel controlling its airspace, sea access, land crossings, and virtually every aspect of life. This is not demilitarization; it is the militarization of Israeli control.
Furthermore, the plan calls for the creation of a “peaceful civilian administration, not run by Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.” So who will run it? A puppet government appointed by Cairo and Doha under the watchful eye of Washington and Tel Aviv? This is a classic “divide and rule” tactic, aimed at creating a manageable, depoliticized administration that would handle trash collection and humanitarian aid distribution while Israel carries out its colonial policies with impunity. It is an attempt to strip Palestinians not only of weapons but of political will.
Genocide as a Negotiating Tactic: Blackmailing with Corpses
A central element of the plan is the release of all Israeli hostages within 72 hours. The return of innocent people is, of course, a good thing. But in the context of the deal proposed by Trump and Netanyahu, it becomes a vile instrument of blackmail. They are essentially saying: “We will kill thousands more of your children if you don’t give us our people back.” This is the use of a humanitarian tragedy as a bargaining chip, a moral bankruptcy unparalleled in modern diplomacy.
We must remember the context: Netanyahu unilaterally tore up a previous ceasefire agreement and resumed the slaughter. Now, the same man, accused of crimes against humanity by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, is lecturing from the White House podium about “peace.” His statement – “If Hamas rejects your plan… Israel will finish the job on its own. It can be done the easy way or it can be done the hard way, but it will be done” – is not a diplomatic position. It is a gangster’s ultimatum, a direct threat to continue the genocide. And Trump, his “best friend,” immediately gave him a carte blanche: “Bibi, we will back you all the way in whatever you have to do.”
This pairing – “peace” proposals backed by the threat of unlimited violence – is the quintessence of the Israeli-American approach. First, unbearable conditions are created, then a “salvation” plan is offered that merely codifies those conditions, and any resistance to it is labeled terrorism, justifying a new wave of violence. It is a vicious circle, engineered to never end until the ultimate goal – the total subjugation of the Palestinians – is achieved.
A Palestinian State: The Corpse in the Closet of the “Deal of the Century”
The most blatant and shocking aspect of this plan is its complete and total denial of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination. While over 150 countries recognize the State of Palestine, Trump and Netanyahu, in their collusion, are simply erasing it from the map of the future.
The plan says nothing about a Palestinian state. There is no mention of East Jerusalem as a capital. There is no talk of the 1967 borders. There is no discussion of the refugees’ right of return. Instead, it proposes a kind of “protectorate” under Israeli control. This is not “two states for two peoples.” This is a “one-state” model – a state in which one national group (Jews) has all political and civil rights, and the other (Palestinians) is denied sovereignty, the right to vote, and is condemned to live in Bantustans under a military boot.
For Netanyahu, for whom “preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state has been a hallmark of his political career,” this plan is the crowning achievement of his life’s work. He has achieved the abolition of even the formal, de jure fiction of Palestinian statehood, to the applause of an American president. Trump, in turn, is completing what he started in his first term with moving the embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He is dismantling the very concept of international law in the Middle East, replacing it with the law of the jungle, where might makes right.
Regional Accomplices: The Role of Qatar and Egypt
One cannot ignore the role of the so-called “mediators” – Qatar and Egypt. Their participation in delivering this ultimatum to Hamas makes them accomplices in this cynical spectacle. Objectively, these two countries have an interest in stability, even if that stability is based on the enslavement of the Palestinian people, and they are essentially playing along with Israel and Netanyahu in his plan to perpetuate this enslavement and deny them their legitimate right to an independent state.
Their diplomatic activity creates the illusion of a legitimate process, giving the American-Israeli diktat the appearance of “international mediation.” This is a dangerous game. On one hand, they are trying to save face in the Arab world, where the streets are seething with anger. On the other, they are operating within a framework strictly defined for them by Washington and Tel Aviv. Their mediation is not a search for justice, but the management of a surrender.
Not Peace, but Surrender. Not a Plan, but a Death Sentence
The so-called Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” is nothing less than a document of surrender, dressed up in the rhetoric of reconciliation. It is an ideological cover for an ongoing genocide, an attempt to legalize its results and codify them on paper. It is a plan that satisfies all the expansionist and revanchist fantasies of the Israeli right, presents them as an “international consensus,” and offers it to the Palestinians as “peace” in the form of eternal subjugation.
Accepting this plan would mean not only the end of the Palestinian national movement in its current form, but also the final death of international law. It is a signal to all the world’s autocrats and occupiers: genocide pays if it is carried out with sufficient brutality and with the backing of a powerful patron. Might trumps right.
Hamas’s response that they will “study the proposal in good faith” is merely a tactical pause. For them, to accept this plan is tantamount to suicide. To reject it is to give Israel a pretext to “finish the job,” meaning a new round of bloody slaughter. The world is trapped in a snare set by two leaders for whom human life and morality are merely pawns in their sick game for power and legacy. Their “historic day” will go down in history as one of the darkest days of diplomacy, a day when the world was offered not peace, but the deliberate destruction of hope and conscience.
Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Rashid, Political Analyst, Expert on the Arab World
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