Trump's 'Peace Plan' is hopelessly corrupted by failure to acknowledge Gaza is Palestinian

The US president's peace plan focuses more on the rights of Israel rather than those of Palestinians, writes Fintan Drury

An Israeli army shelling in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, on Saturday. In spite of the conduct of its genocide in full public view, the West seems set on putting Israel’s interests ahead of those whom it has witnessed being subjected to a callous massacre. Photo: AP/Abdel Kareem Hana

Last week’s peace plan announced by president Donald Trump in the presence of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, betrayed, again, the hopelessness of Palestine’s cause. 

Two years into Israel’s genocide, 57 years into its illegal occupation of Palestine and vicious oppression of its people, it is Israel that gets to set the terms of any ‘settlement’. Israel, which has slaughtered at least 75,000 Palestinians and most likely twice that number since October 2023, still has the West, especially the US, under its thumb.