Trump’s Plan for Gaza: Eternal Oppression of the Palestinians

(«Proletarian»; Nr. 23; December 2025)

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After months of not only allowing and permitting the massacres, famine, and destruction in Gaza through a continuous flow of weapons, but also encouraging them with its plan to expel the Gazan population in order to build a riviera on the ruins (with money from the Gulf countries), and after stubbornly refusing any ceasefire, Trump is now trumpeting that he has laid the foundations for “eternal peace” with his plan. Western imperialists, Arab states, including Algeria, Russia, China, Iran... in short, states from all over the world, have approved this plan.

The first concrete effects are visible: an end to the massive bombardments, the release of Israeli hostages and a number of Palestinian prisoners, and authorization for humanitarian aid.

But despite the ceasefire, the Israeli army continues to massacre (more than 350 dead to date) and humanitarian aid is still not being allowed in sufficient quantities. The Palestinians in Gaza are still in a desperate situation, condemned to wander among the ruins in a territory where all basic infrastructure and services have been systematically destroyed, where agricultural land has been rendered almost impossible to cultivate, where fishing is prohibited, and where every family has suffered deaths, injuries, or illness. It is said that Trump forced Netanyahu into the ceasefire; what is certain is that his plan is in line with the interests of the Jewish state: maintaining the Israeli army in part of the territory, disarming Hamas and Palestinian groups (excluding, no doubt, the militias financed by Israel), and opposing any self-determination of the population.

This neo-colonial plan does not allow Palestinians to decide their own fate; Gaza would become a protectorate ruled by a non-Palestinian authority, with Trump as president and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a close ally of Netanyahu who was behind the plan to transform Gaza into a “riviera,” as its effective leader. The territory would be occupied by a military force (perhaps Turkish and Arab) responsible for maintaining order. The plan makes no mention of the West Bank or Jerusalem, implicitly allowing colonization to continue and daily killings to be perpetrated there. It therefore rules out the prospect of these territories uniting with Gaza, a prospect that Netanyahu has consistently fought against, including by discreetly supporting Hamas in order to weaken the “Palestinian Authority,” despite the latter’s extreme servility.

This plan was endorsed by the Israeli government, Hamas, and other resistance organizations (Islamic Jihad, etc.), which in reality had no choice but to capitulate; it was even approved by the states that had solemnly “recognized” a Palestinian state that was more impossible than ever. All agreed to this plan, which condemns the Palestinians to a slow death in an open-air concentration camp and eternal oppression.

It will be up to the proletarians of the region and of the whole world to come to their aid by launching an assault on the despicable imperialist order and the bourgeois states responsible for or complicit in their ordeal.

 

December 1, 2025