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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Three
weeks after Israel attempted to assassinate
Hamas\u2019s lead negotiators in a series of airstrikes
on the group\u2019s offices in Doha, Qatar, President
Donald Trump hailed the public announcement of his
20-point plan to end the war in Gaza as
\u201cpotentially one of the great days ever in
civilization.\u201d The framework was drafted in
coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu\u2019s top adviser, Ron Dermer, and
spearheaded by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and
Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Several Arab
and Muslim states also contributed. No Palestinian
officials from Hamas or any other faction,
including the internationally-recognized
Palestinian Authority, were consulted in crafting
the plan.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
proposal, which Netanyahu agreed to after meeting
with Trump at the White House on Monday, links the
delivery of food and other life essentials and the
withdrawal of Israeli forces to the
demilitarization of Gaza and includes several
loopholes that would permit Israel to resume the
genocide. It also would impose a foreign-led
authority on the demilitarized Gaza Strip, backed
by Arab and international troops, and allow the
Israeli army to indefinitely encircle the enclave
by maintaining positions inside Gaza\u2019s territory.
The plan requires Hamas to release all Israeli
captives held in Gaza before any Palestinians
would be freed. While the proposal includes a
series of apparent concessions to Arab and Muslim
countries in return for their endorsement, it
makes no mention of how Israel would be prevented
from violating the agreement. The plan also
includes a nebulous mention of possible future
Palestinian \u201cself-determination and statehood\u201d
after Gaza \u201cre-development advances\u201d and the
Palestinian Authority is reformed.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cIf
both sides agree to this proposal, the war will
immediately end,\u201d the framework\u2019s text, released
on Monday, states. \u201cIsraeli forces will withdraw
to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage
release. During this time, all military
operations, including aerial and artillery
bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines
will remain frozen until conditions are met for
the complete staged withdrawal.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
his White House remarks, Netanyahu affirmed his
acceptance of the framework, but made clear Israel
stands poised to resume the genocide. \u201cIf Hamas
rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they
supposedly accept it and then basically do
everything to counter it\u2014then Israel will finish
the job by itself,\u201d he declared. \u201cThis can be done
the easy way or it can be done the hard way, but
it will be done. We prefer the easy way, but it
has to be done.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
also underscored this point. \u201cIsrael would have my
full backing to finish the job of destroying the
threat of Hamas,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I hope that we\u2019re
going to have a deal for peace, and if Hamas
rejects the deal\u2026 Bibi you\u2019d have our full backing
to do what you would have to do. Everyone
understands that the ultimate result must be the
elimination of any danger posed in the region. And
the danger is caused by Hamas.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">On
Tuesday, Trump reiterated this and said he would
give Hamas \u201cabout three or four days\u201d to respond.
\u201cWe\u2019re just waiting for Hamas, and Hamas is either
going to be doing it or not, and if it\u2019s not, it\u2019s
going to be a very sad end,\u201d he said, adding that
if Hamas rejects the deal, \u201cI would let [Israel]
go and do what they have to do.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Hamas
was not given any details on the proposal prior to
Trump and Netanyahu unveiling it at the White
House, a senior leader told Al Jazeera Mubasher.
\u201cNot a single Palestinian has reviewed this plan,
and what was recounted \u2026 represents a tilt toward
the Israeli vision\u2014an approach close to what
Netanyahu insisted on and pleaded for\u2014to continue
the war and the annihilation. Nothing more,
nothing less,\u201d said senior Hamas leader Mahmoud
Mardawi immediately following the Trump\u2013Netanyahu
press conference. \u201cTo negotiate an end to this
criminal war in exchange for ending the
Palestinian people\u2019s right to their state and
their rights to their land, homeland, and holy
sites\u2014no Palestinian will accept that.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Mardawi
said that Hamas and other Palestinian factions
would need to study the proposal, adding that,
\u201cthe official position must be issued after
reading the proposal and then stating our position
and making amendments that conform with our right
to self-determination.\u201d The last time Hamas
leaders gathered to discuss a U.S. proposal, on
September 9, Israel attempted to assassinate its
negotiators.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Qatar\u2019s
foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said
Tuesday that Egypt and Qatar had delivered the
plan to Hamas and, along with Turkish officials,
would be holding a \u201cconsultative meeting.\u201d
Al-Ansari added, \u201cWe are optimistic that Trump\u2019s
plan is comprehensive, and the Hamas delegation is
studying it responsibly, and we continue to
consult with them.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
Trump praised his own plan as a landmark
opportunity for \u201ceternal peace in the Middle
East,\u201d the exclusion of all Palestinians from the
process is an extension of decades of Western
colonial dominance of decision-making surrounding
the future of Palestine. At the heart of Trump\u2019s
plan is a thinly-veiled ultimatum to Palestinians:
bend the knee to Israel, renounce the right of
armed resistance, and agree to indefinite
subjugation by foreign actors.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThis
plan is a malicious attempt to achieve through
politics what the war of extermination could not
achieve on the ground,\u201d said Sami Al-Arian, a
prominent Palestinian academic and activist and
the director of the Center for Islam and Global
Affairs at Istanbul Zaim University. \u201cThis
includes ending the resistance, withdrawing
weapons, releasing [Israeli] captives without a
complete withdrawal, maintaining security,
political, and economic control over Gaza, and
imposing international tutelage.\u201d He said the
Trump framework is aimed at \u201cperpetuating the
Israeli narrative that the challenge is a security
one related to Israeli security needs, not to
ending a military occupation, Israeli genocide,
ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and ongoing
aggression.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Al-Arian
told Drop Site, \u201cThere is no negotiation here.
There is an American plan. It was modified by some
Israeli points and possibly some Arab points. And
it\u2019s given to the resistance as a \u2018Take it or
leave it\u2019 thing.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
the lead-up to the announcement, the Trump
administration pushed a familiar narrative to
friendly media outlets that he pressured a
resistant Netanyahu into the agreement. In
reality, Israeli officials were deeply involved
with crafting the proposal right up to the moment
the White House released the text.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
a video address in Hebrew following his event with
Trump, Netanyahu portrayed the plan as a coup for
Israel\u2019s agenda, saying it effectively placed an
Arab and international stamp of legitimacy on his
genocidal plans. \u201cThis is a historic visit.
Instead of Hamas isolating us, we turned the
tables and isolated Hamas. 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,\u201d Netanyahu declared. \u201cWho would have
believed this? After all, people constantly say,
the IDF should withdraw\u2026 No way, that\u2019s not
happening.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
previous \u201cceasefire\u201d negotiations, when Hamas
has sought to propose amendments or even to
clarify phrasing in draft texts, Israel and the
U.S. denounced Hamas, falsely accusing it of
rejecting peace, and then Israel intensified the
military assault on Gaza. Israel, meanwhile, has
offered the public perception it agrees to draft
deals, while at the same time </span><a
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from Trump and his predecessor, Joe Biden,
authorizing Israel to resume the war if it
determines the agreement is no longer in its
interests.</span></p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;margin: 32px 0;text-align: center;font-weight: 500;font-style: italic;">\u201cThere
is no negotiation here. There is an American
plan. It was modified by some Israeli points and
possibly some Arab points. And it\u2019s given to the
resistance as a \u2018Take it or leave it\u2019 thing.\u201d</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">And
after it signed the January 2025 ceasefire
agreement, Israel repeatedly violated it,
regularly striking Gaza and ultimately blowing up
the agreement entirely after the first of what was
supposed to be a three-phase deal. Netanyahu has
made clear that he wants not only Hamas\u2019s
surrender, but the decimation of all Palestinian
resistance in Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWhat
was announced at the press conference between
Trump and Netanyahu is an American-Israeli
agreement, an expression of Israel\u2019s entire
position, and a recipe for continued aggression
against the Palestinian people,\u201d said Ziyad
al-Nakhalah, the secretary general of Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, the second largest armed resistance
group in Gaza, in a statement. \u201cIsrael is trying
to impose, through the United States, what it has
been unable to achieve through war. Therefore, we
consider the American-Israeli announcement a
recipe for igniting the region.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
crafting this plan, Trump deployed his son-in-law,
Kushner, to shore up support from Arab nations
ahead of the announcement. Kushner is often touted
by Trump as the mastermind of the so-called
Abraham Accord \u201cnormalization\u201d agreements with
Israel. Kushner has extensive business dealings in
Gulf countries and his investment firm, Affinity
Partners, is backed by billions of dollars from
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
boasted that he has the full backing of all major
Arab nations. \u201cThe level of support that I\u2019ve had
from the nations in the Middle East and
surrounding Israel and neighbors of Israel has
been incredible. Incredible. Every single one of
them,\u201d Trump said, highlighting the leaders of
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. \u201cThese are the
people that we\u2019ve been dealing with and who\u2019ve
been actually very much involved in this
negotiation, giving us ideas, things they can live
with, things they can\u2019t live with.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Embedded
within the plan are several terms that Arab
nations pushed for and which certainly were key to
getting their buy-in. \u201cThe conditions may finally
be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian
self-determination and statehood, which we
recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian
people,\u201d the plan states. Arab and Muslim
countries also certainly advocated for including a
provision that Israel will cease its military
assault and \u201cIsrael will not occupy or annex
Gaza.\u201d No Palestinians, the outline states, \u201cwill
be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to
leave will be free to do so and free to return. We
will encourage people to stay and offer them the
opportunity to build a better Gaza.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">An
earlier leaked draft of Trump\u2019s plan, as reported
in Hebrew media, included a commitment that Israel
would not annex the West Bank. That term does not
exist in the text distributed Monday by the White
House.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Nonetheless,
the foreign ministers of Jordan, the United Arab
Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt issued a statement saying
they \u201cwelcome President Donald J Trump\u2019s
leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war
in Gaza, and assert their confidence in his
ability to find a path to peace.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">During
his appearance on Al Jazeera after the plan was
announced, Mardawi repeatedly emphasized the
exclusion of Palestinians from the drafting of the
Trump plan. \u201cHow can an Arab state refuse to allow
the Palestinian people, with all their current
political forces and over past decades, to
participate?\u201d he asked, rejecting the premise. \u201cIn
everything put forward there is no affirmation of
the Palestinian people\u2019s rights.\u201d He added that
Hamas \u201cwill examine the proposal, discuss it with
the factions, amend it, and consult the
countries\u2014all the countries that were willing and
ready among those that met with Trump\u2014and review
their positions.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Abu
Ali Hassan, a member of the General Central
Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine denounced the plan as giving
diplomatic cover to a continuation of Israel\u2019s
broader agenda. \u201cTrump gave the occupying state
sufficient time to achieve its goals to no avail.
The plan is a political intervention to achieve
the military objectives of the war,\u201d he told the
Palestinian Sanad news agency. The plan, he said,
\u201cis an expression of a conspiracy involving
international and Arab parties to undermine the
rights of the Palestinian people and defeat their
resistance.\u201d</p>
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and Colonizing Gaza</strong></h2>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump plan is riddled with ambiguities, loopholes,
and proposals that leave a multitude of paths for
Israel to resume its genocidal assault on Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Within
72 hours of an agreement, the plan says, Hamas
must release all Israeli captives held in Gaza.
There are believed to be 20 living Israelis and
the bodies of 28 deceased remaining in the Strip.
In return, Israel would subsequently release 250
Palestinians sentenced to life and 1,700
Palestinians from Gaza taken captive after October
7, 2023, including all women and children. The
bodies of 15 Palestinians, according to the plan,
would be returned for the remains of each deceased
Israeli held in Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
plan states that deliveries of food and other life
essentials to Gaza will resume in quantities
consistent with the January 2025 ceasefire
agreement that Israel unilaterally abandoned.
\u201cEntry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip
will proceed without interference from the two
parties through the United Nations and its
agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to
other international institutions not associated in
any manner with either party,\u201d it says, adding
that this will include \u201crehabilitation of
infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage),
rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and
entry of necessary equipment to remove rubble and
open roads.\u201d The plan also pledges that the Rafah
crossing along the border with Egypt\u2014what was once
Gaza\u2019s only gateway to the world beyond Israeli
control\u2014would be opened in both directions under
the rules established in the January ceasefire
deal. But a map of the proposed Israeli
withdrawals would allow Israeli forces to remain
deployed across southern Gaza, including along the
Philadelphi corridor that runs along the border
with Egypt, until an international force met
standards approved by Trump.</p>
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White House released a map Monday showing
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
maps for a proposed phased Israeli withdrawal
are consistent with those </span><a
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in July\u2014and rejected by Hamas\u2014with the added
term that any Israeli troop withdrawals will be
linked to the verified disarmament of
Palestinian resistance groups. The plan says
that Israeli forces would \u201cprogressively hand
over the Gaza territory it occupies\u201d to an
international security force, but that Israeli
troops would maintain \u201ca security perimeter
presence that will remain until Gaza is properly
secure from any resurgent terror threat.\u201d</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
resumption of the aid is extremely important in
light of the fact that there is starvation and
famine taking place,\u201d said Al-Arian. \u201cBut I think
the thorniest of issues would be the disarmament
and the [Israeli] withdrawal. These could be the
two issues that can make this whole deal unravel.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump framework also states that if Hamas \u201cdelays
or rejects this proposal,\u201d aid distribution will
only proceed in areas under Israeli control or
those handed over to the international force after
disarmament of Palestinians in the area.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
plan also contains terms that Hamas has explicitly
defined as \u201cred lines,\u201d namely a demand to strip
Palestinians of their right to armed resistance
against Israeli occupation. \u201cAll military, terror,
and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels
and weapon production facilities, will be
destroyed and not rebuilt,\u201d it states. \u201cThere will
be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the
supervision of independent monitors, which will
include placing weapons permanently beyond use
through an agreed process of decommissioning, and
supported by an internationally funded buy back
and reintegration program all verified by the
independent monitors.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Mardawi,
the Hamas official, said the U.S. and Israel were
engaged in a propaganda campaign to rebrand the
Palestinian right to self defense as a
justification for Israel\u2019s genocidal war. \u201cTo
confiscate these weapons without a horizon,
without a roadmap, without steps that lead to the
establishment of the Palestinian state that the
world recognizes is an attempt to bury the
international consensus\u2014except for America and the
rogue Israel\u2014on recognizing the Palestinian
people\u2019s right to establish their state,\u201d he told
Al Jazeera. \u201cThis international diplomatic and
political momentum\u2014especially from Europe, which
used to support, back, and provide all forms of
assistance to the state of the occupation\u2014this
recognition and this shift toward affirming the
Palestinian people\u2019s right to establish their
state on their homeland is being undermined.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump plan says that the U.S. will work with Arab
and international partners to create \u201ca temporary
International Stabilization Force (ISF) to
immediately deploy in Gaza\u201d to establish \u201ccontrol
and stability.\u201d In addition to providing security
in Gaza, the plan says the ISF would also \u201cwork
with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas,
along with newly trained Palestinian police
forces.\u201d The concept outlined in the plan is that
as the ISF takes control of areas occupied by
Israel, Israeli forces would withdraw. But the
entire plan is predicated on the disarmament of
Palestinian factions in areas the Israeli military
would agree to withdraw from. It states that
Israeli withdrawal would be \u201cbased on standards,
milestones, and timeframes linked to
demilitarization\u2026 with the objective of a secure
Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel,
Egypt, or its citizens.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
think there will be huge reservations from all
Palestinian factions, that they will not surrender
their weapons,\u201d Al-Arian said. \u201cPeople have the
right to defend themselves, particularly when
dealing with an enemy that does not respect any
law, any international law, any humanitarian law
whatsoever.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
the White House on Monday, Trump claimed he had
secured commitments from Arab and Muslim countries
\u201cto demilitarize Gaza, and that\u2019s quickly.
Decommission the military capabilities of Hamas
and all other terror organizations. Do that
immediately. We\u2019re relying on the countries that I
named and others to deal with Hamas.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Al-Arian
said he was skeptical Israel would actually agree
to the deployment of a foreign force, particularly
an Arab one. But even if it did happen, he said it
would not be capable of achieving the stated aim
of disarming Palestinian resistance factions.
\u201cThey\u2019re not going to bring Arab and international
troops to go and fight the resistance. The
resistance will not voluntarily give up its arms,\u201d
said Al-Arian. \u201cWhich makes the Israelis say, \u2018If
that doesn\u2019t happen, we\u2019re not withdrawing.\u2019 So
you end up with a frozen conflict that could
actually unravel and return back to genocide. But
this time the Americans will say, \u2018We tried, we
failed.\u2019 And then the Israelis have a free hand to
resume their genocide.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Hamas
has repeatedly said that it would relinquish
governing authority in Gaza to an independent
technocratic committee of Palestinians. On several
occasions, Hamas proposed including the term in
previous ceasefire proposals and the U.S., and
Israel removed it. The Trump plan states, \u201cHamas
and other factions agree to not have any role in
the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or
in any form.\u201d It does not clarify which factions
this would include.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
the Trump plan states that \u201cGaza will be governed
under the temporary transitional governance of a
technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee,\u201d
it requires that it be overseen by another newly
created entity that would be headed by Trump and
reportedly managed by former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair. The document references the
potential future involvement of the Palestinian
Authority, but offers no timeline.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Hossam
Badran, a member of Hamas\u2019s political bureau,
denounced the involvement of Blair, an unrepentant
war monger who has spent his years since leaving
office cashing in by peddling his influence to
dictators and despots. \u201cI could call him \u2018the
devil\u2019s brother\u2019\u2014that\u2019s Tony Blair. He has brought
no good to the Palestinian cause, to the Arabs, or
to the Muslims. His criminal and destructive role
since the war on Iraq, in which he had a central
role both theoretically and in practical
participation, is well known,\u201d Badran told Al
Jazeera Mubasher on Sunday. \u201cTony Blair is not a
welcome figure in the Palestinian cause, and
therefore any plan associated with this person is
an ill omen for the Palestinian people.\u201d After
resigning as British Prime Minister, Blair served
as the official Middle East envoy for the
Quartet\u2014consisting of the U.S., the UN, the EU,
and Russia\u2014from 2007 to 2015 and was widely
criticized for achieving little.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Al-Arian
said that while Hamas has agreed that it would not
be a part of an interim governing body for Gaza,
Israel and Trump seem to be trying to preemptively
strip Palestinians of the right to choose their
leaders democratically. \u201cEventually there will
have to be some sort of a democratic transition,
democratic elections in which Gazans have the
right to rule themselves,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think
any Palestinian would agree to have a foreign
power governing them. That imperialist,
colonialist mentality is not acceptable to any
Palestinian.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump plan calls for the establishment of an
\u201ceconomic development plan\u201d that would be managed
by a \u201cpanel of experts who have helped birth some
of the thriving modern miracle cities in the
Middle East.\u201d The language is consistent with the
praise Trump heaped on the rulers of Gulf nations
when he visited Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
in May. While Trump made no mention of his
oft-repeated threat to turn Gaza into a U.S.-run
\u201cMiddle East Riviera,\u201d the plan indicates he sees
massive private investment opportunities in the
rubble of Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">During
the Monday press conference, Trump addressed
Dermer\u2014Netanyahu\u2019s chief strategist\u2014in the front
row with a rambling digression referring to Gaza
as the most beautiful real estate in the region
and offered a staggeringly false history of Israel
\u201cgiving it\u201d to the Palestinians in 2005. \u201cThey
[Israel] said, \u2018You take it. This is our
contribution to peace.\u2019 But that didn\u2019t work out.
That didn\u2019t work out. It was the opposite of
peace,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey pulled away, they let
them have it. And I never forgot that because I
said, \u2018That doesn\u2019t sound like a good deal to me
as a real estate person.\u2019 They gave up the ocean,
right? Ron, they gave up the ocean. They said,
\u2018Who would do this deal?\u2019And it still didn\u2019t work
out. They were very generous, actually. And they
gave up the most magnificent piece of land in many
ways in the Middle East. And they said, \u2018All we
want to do now is have peace.\u2019 That request was
not honored.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cEvery
move on Trump\u2019s part, he gets someone in the back
door, whether it\u2019s his children, his son in law,
or friends, to take a piece of the act,\u201d said
Al-Arian. \u201cSo he sees big dollar signs coming in
and that\u2019s why he got in Tony Blair, because that
is the medium by which he\u2019s going to be able to
control the money and control what\u2019s happening in
Gaza.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
Trump and Netanyahu can forge ahead with their
attempt to impose this plan on Gaza, Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad still hold nearly 50
Israeli captives, living and dead. Hamas knows
this is the only leverage it holds in any
negotiation. \u201cThe only thing that Hamas can reject
really is the hand over the captives,\u201d said
Al-Arian. \u201cHamas doesn\u2019t want to be stripped of
this card and then end up with another war in
which they have zero leverage after that.\u201d Should
Netanyahu and Trump attempt to entirely circumvent
Hamas and recover the captives through military
force, it is certain that many, if not all of
them, would be killed. Hamas\u2019s armed wing, Qassam
Brigades, has issued several warnings to Israel
against such plans.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump plan states that, \u201cOnce all hostages are
returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful
co-existence and to decommission their weapons
will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish
to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to
receiving countries.\u201d This clause portrays Hamas
as akin to a small group of foreign fighters,
rather than a political movement that has won
democratic elections, governed Gaza for two
decades, and which still enjoys a sizable amount
of support in public polls across Palestine.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
the Trump proposal contains some elements that the
Palestinian resistance has long demanded,
including the resumption of life essentials and
humanitarian aid, the exchange of captives and a
framework, albeit deeply skewed toward Israel, for
withdrawal of occupation forces. But Al-Arian said
these terms do not outweigh the traps embedded
within the plan\u2019s text.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWe
may get the first phase of the plan. What happens
to the rest of the plan is going to depend pretty
much on other dynamics, but more importantly on
the Trump administration, which is Zionist to the
core. So I don\u2019t have much hope that this is going
to be carried out,\u201d Al-Arian said. \u201cAnd what comes
after that is going to be a renewed effort to
establish Greater Israel, which will also
precipitate greater effort to resist this. That
means that the whole region will stay unstable.\u201d</p>
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Negotiations</strong></h2>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Some
terms of the plan appear to be rooted in the
terms of a 13-point U.S.-Israeli-drafted plan
that Hamas agreed to on August 18. Israel never
formally responded to Hamas\u2019s acceptance of the
so-called Witkoff framework, which the U.S.
publicly characterized as the deal that would
end the war. By that point, Israel was
finalizing preparations for a sustained ground
invasion of Gaza City aimed at expelling one
million Palestinians. On August 20, two days
after Hamas made </span><a
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and accepted the Witkoff plan, Israel forged
ahead with its invasion of Gaza City.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>As
Israel intensified its air strikes and ground
operations against Gaza, Trump </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/06122d7b-1769-499d-830f-3815fd3e67fd?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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on September 3 that he was making a final offer
to Hamas. Ignoring the fact that Hamas had
already conceded to what Trump had also called
the last chance for a deal, the U.S. delivered
to Hamas via Qatari mediators a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/fa2b4be3-274f-450b-b14b-ce415deff512?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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that called for the unconditional release of all
Israeli captives, living and dead, in Gaza in
return for a 60-day ceasefire and an opaque
commitment to end the war. As the U.S. initiated
backdoor communications with Hamas, claiming to
want to make a deal, Israeli army Chief of Staff
Eyal Zamir publicly threatened to assassinate
Hamas leaders outside of Gaza if the group did
not surrender.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
Hamas officials convened in Doha on September 9 to
discuss how to respond to the paragraph-long
document from Trump and messages it received
through intermediaries, Israel carried out what it
called Operation Day of Judgement, bombing Hamas\u2019s
offices and the Qatar residence of its chief
political leader and negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya.
While the strike failed to kill any Hamas leaders,
Israel\u2019s missiles took the lives of Al-Hayya\u2019s son
and four Hamas administrative staff as well as a
Qatari security guard. The attack also wounded
Al-Hayya\u2019s wife, daughter-in-law, and some of his
grandchildren.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Qatar
is the home of U.S. Central Command, the premiere
American strategic military facility in the
region. Israel was able to conduct its attacks
without encountering any apparent resistance from
the U.S.-provided air defense systems in Qatar,
raising serious questions about the extent of U.S.
involvement in the strike. While the Trump
administration claimed it was only alerted by
Israel soon before the Israeli air strikes and
tried to warn Qatar\u2019s leader, the contention
defies common sense. No country in the world has a
more extensive military and intelligence apparatus
in the region than that operated by the U.S.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Whether
by Israeli design or the product of a U.S.-Israeli
plot, the series of events\u2014most prominently the
U.S.-enabled sabotage of yet another ceasefire
agreement\u2014paved the way for weeks of wanton
killing, forced displacement and mass destruction
in northern Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Arab
leaders gathered in Doha for an emergency summit
on September 15 to discuss Israel\u2019s bombing of
Qatar. In the end, they issued only a strongly
worded statement and declined to engage in any
military response to Israel\u2019s attack. Trump
claimed he was not happy with the Israeli bombing
of Qatar and claimed it would not happen again.
But two Arab diplomatic sources told Drop Site
that on his recent visit to Qatar, Secretary of
State Marco Rubio told officials in Doha that the
U.S. could make no such guarantee as long as Hamas
was allowed to operate in Qatar. A State
Department spokesperson declined to confirm or
deny what the sources told Drop Site.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">During
his meeting with Trump on Monday, Netanyahu
offered an apology to the emir of Qatar on a phone
call made from inside the White House and promised
not to violate Qatari sovereignty again. But the
apology was narrowly focused on the killing of the
Qatari security guard and not for bombing the
Hamas office in an effort to kill its negotiating
team in the midst of negotiations which Qatar was
mediating at the request of the U.S.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">On
Monday, Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry released a
statement acknowledging Netanyahu\u2019s apology and
stated that it would resume its mediation efforts
in support of Trump\u2019s plan. Since Israel\u2019s attempt
to assassinate Hamas\u2019s external leadership,
several of the group\u2019s senior leaders have been
held in safe houses in Qatar with limited access
to communications. While this has created
challenges for the group to maintain contact with
commanders on the ground in Gaza, sources have
told Drop Site they have developed alternative
methods.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
Hamas and other Palestinian groups debate their
response to the Trump plan, the final word will
lie not with those in Doha, but inside Gaza.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThat
proposal will come to the leaders in exile. They
will look at it, they will make some decisions.
These decisions would also be consulted with the
people in the field in Gaza. They will have to be
heard at the end. They are the ones who control
the [Israeli] captives,\u201d Al-Arian said. \u201cIt
doesn\u2019t even matter what the people say outside.
It\u2019s only going to be an opinion and they hope
that that opinion would be accepted by the people
inside [Gaza]. But the people who are leading in
the field in Gaza will have to make that decision.
But I believe, all in all, that Hamas and the
resistance have shown that they have tremendous
discipline, that they are capable of communicating
and having a unified position.\u201d</p>
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