The Gaza Strip today stands as the scarred epicentre of its inhabitants, considered as “the crime of crimes” in international law. Trampling underfoot all canons of international law, disdaining global voice of protest and baring tooth and claw of a notorious military, the US-backed notorious Zionist rulers of Israel have subjected the entire Palestinian civilian population to such a horrifying inhuman treatment, never witnessed anywhere in the world. For over two years they have bombarded the country, targeting homes, UN shelters, hospitals, schools and universities, killing more than 67,000 people (accounted for), including women and children, pulverizing cities, displacing generations and blocking all avenues for reaching out aid to the starving, the wounded, and medically distressed millions.
So, the hunger for peace by the assailed Gaza people has not been abstract but visceral
Trump’s self-appointment as apostle of peace
Seizing the opportunity, US President Trump, the chieftain of the war-monger Pentagon regime and chief patron of the planned systematic killing of freedom seeking populace of Gaza by his lackey Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, mooted a 20-point “Peace Plan” for ending Israeli genocide in Palestine. But as usual, it was akin to the proverbial saying of “stealing the goose and give the giblets in alms”. Trump’s formula, inter alia, states
- Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of state to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform programme, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.
- Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. Israel would have US backing to “finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas”.
- A special economic zone (SEZ) will be established with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries.
- The US will work with Arab and international partners to develop a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) to immediately deploy in Gaza.
- The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas, along with newly trained Palestinian police forces.
- As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and time frames linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the United States,
- An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.
Decoding the peace package
If one decodes the peace package, it will be evident that what Trump has tabled is not peace but a rebranded trusteeship, a scheme that outwardly appears benignly humanitarian but is a downright imperialist proposal that as usual seeks to feign soothing with one hand while shackling with the other.
Trump, whose presidency gutted UN refugee aid and legitimized illegal Israeli settlements on the forcibly occupied foreign territories, now boastfully positions himself as arbiter of Palestinian governance. It is the latest version of gunboat diplomacy and vending of so-called peace at the point of bayonet that the US imperialists have been “famous” for. For decades, US’s so-called peace initiatives have functioned not as vehicles for Palestinian self-determination, but as mechanisms to stabilize Israeli power while on 5 October 2025, Comrade Jayesh Patel, Member, Gujarat State Organizing Committee, SUCI(C)), met in Ahmedabad. Abdullah Abu Shawesh, Ambassador of Palestine in India. Comrade Jayesh handed over 4 statements on GAZA issued by the SUCI(C) and photographs of protest demonstration organized by our Party on 6 August 2025. exporting a model of neo-colonial pacification to the region. This 20- point framework is simply the most audacious articulation yet: a ceasefire designed to cement conquest and turn Palestine into a colony of US imperialism.
Political architecture: colonial mandates rebranded
At its heart, Trump’s plan dismantles the possibility of Palestinian sovereignty under the guise of “transition.” Hamas, the elected authority in Gaza since 2006, is to be liquidated as a political and military entity. In its place, an “apolitical technocratic council” will govern Gaza. To a casual uninformed observer, this might sound appealing: competent administrators replacing stamped militants. But the crucial detail is that this body will not answer to Palestinians—it will be overseen by a “Board of Peace,” chaired by Donald Trump himself and including Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Britain and chief accomplice to illegal military occupation of sovereign Iraq by US imperialists under false pretext. Evidently, Palestinians are reduced to wards under an international trusteeship—an arrangement hauntingly reminiscent of the British Mandate that carved modern Palestine in 1923 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It bears recall that the British Mandate did not lead to a peaceful resolution but rather to partition and war. The territory of Mandatory Palestine was divided, with the creation of the State of Israel, Jordan annexing the West Bank, and Egypt establishing control over the Gaza Strip.
The Trump proposal also fractures Palestinian national unity. It envisions Gaza detached from the West Bank, with the Palestinian Authority allowed entry only after satisfying externally dictated reforms. This effectively eliminates the possibility of a unified Palestinian polity. By engineering further fragmentation, the plan entrenches the very divisions that have long undermined Palestinian resistance.
One clause, point 19, crystallizes this logic that once a Palestinian reform programme is completed, “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to self-determination.” Sovereignty is clearly not an inherent right grounded in UN resolutions; it becomes a conditional reward, to be granted only after Palestinians prove themselves worthy. This reframes statehood as probation—a shift from international law to imperialist-Zionist discretion.
The economic dimension: dependency as strategy
If the political clauses recall mandates, the economic provisions read like an IMF prospectus. Trump’s plan promises “miracle cities,” “special economic zones,” and a “development programme” to transform Gaza into a Middle Eastern Singapore. It may invoke modernity, but that does not signify progress. For, stripped of sovereignty, these promises amount to gilded dependency.
For Palestinians, economic viability is impossible without control of borders, resources, and trade. Under Israeli blockade, Gaza has been systematically unsettled: its infrastructure crippled, its exports stifled, its labour pool turned into a surplus population. Trump’s plan does not restore sovereignty over borders or resources. Instead, it ties aid and development to pacification: to “deradicalization,” in the name of prosperity.
Trump’s “miracle cities” will not be Palestinian projects; they will be enclaves of foreign investment, insulated from the people whose land they occupy. Palestinians, stripped of land and rights, are folded into zones of precarious employment designed for foreign investors particularly in the SEZs.
This mirrors “peacebuilding” strategy of US imperialism in Bosnia after Dayton and in Iraq under its occupation. Since the 1995 Dayton Agreement ended the Bosnian civil war, (engineered / fostered and prolonged by US interference and intervention) Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) had operated under a fragile and complex political structure that has entrenched ethnic divisions, hindered economic progress, and left the country, divided into two semiautonomous entities named the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), in a state of “frozen conflict”. In Iraq, the US-imposed sectarian power-sharing structure created after the 2003 invasion, alongside foreign interference and competing militias, has produced political dysfunction, rampant corruption, and a weak, inefficient government. In both the countries, reconstruction projects were conditioned on compliance with ‘restructuring’ manual prescribed by US imperialists and their allies. International capital flowed in, but sovereignty flowed out. Trump’s plan bluntly offers the carrot of prosperity with the stick of withholding sovereignty. This is not liberation; it is economic pacification. Trump’s plan belongs to a genealogy of hitherto US designed “peace plans” that handle conflict rather than resolve it.
Cultural engineering: manufacturing consent
Beyond politics and economics, the plan ventures into cultural reprogramming. As mentioned above (vide clause ix) mandates an “interfaith dialogue process” to change Palestinian and Israeli “mindsets.” The rhetoric is benign—who opposes dialogue? But in context, this becomes an instrument of cultural control. Dialogue here is not between equals. It is a process imposed on the colonized, intended to normalize subjugation by reframing it as peace. Resistance is pathologized as radicalization, while compliance is celebrated as modernity.
This cultural engineering is paired with an International Stabilization Force to enforce demilitarization. The hard power of occupation is thus supplemented by the soft power of ‘re-education’. Such efforts echo colonial “civilizing missions,” where education was weaponized to instil obedience. Today’s vocabulary is softer—dialogue, coexistence—but the goal is the same: to manufacture consent for subjugation.
Israel’s strategic gains: security without sovereignty
For Israeli rulers, the plan is a windfall. It secures core war aims— Hamas’s disempowerment, hostage return, Gaza’s demilitarization—without the burden of direct re-occupation. Instead, an international consortium absorbs the responsibility for Gaza’s administration. Israel retains a permanent “security perimeter” and a veto over demilitarization milestones, ensuring indefinite control without legal responsibility. The occupation is functionally outsourced, but its logic remains intact. This arrangement mirrors Israel’s “security zones” in South Lebanon, where proxies managed territory while Israel reserved the right to intervene. It also echoes the West Bank model, where Palestinian Authority Security Forces has been policing Palestinians under the watchful eye of the IDF.
Palestinian people are compelled to tentative acceptance
Hamas’s reaction—tentative acceptance in principle—at least to the hostage release deal is not capitulation but pragmatism. None of the Middle East countries nor even any member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) , an intergovernmental organization of 57 Muslim-majority countries, founded in 1969 to strengthen solidarity among Muslim states and safeguard their interests, stood by the Palestinian people, driven out from their homeland, deprived of an own state. Instead, in a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan welcomed Trump’s “leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza”, clearly reflecting their own capitalist class interests. Isolated, battered and bruised, Palestinian people have no alternative but to reluctantly agree in principle to key points in 20-point plan for the war-torn territory and thereby opt for survival at the cost of concessions. And so, Hamas militia also accepted the Trump’s proposal.
World must stand united against imperialist policy of aggression, invasion, overlordism and brigandage
History teaches us that peace without justice is fragile. The world must not mistake Trump’s 20 points ‘peace’ plan as a blueprint for peace. It is ceasefire as conquest, domination as dialogue, dependency as prosperity, apparent humanitarianism as imperialism, aid, security, peace as counterinsurgency and governance as instruments of control. For Palestinians, it delivers a gilded cage. Once again, we reiterate that had the mighty socialist bloc been still in existence, the US imperialists and their cohorts could not have dared to bully Palestine to submission. Once again relevant is the 1956 Suez Canal incident when attacking French, Israeli and British armies had to flee from Egypt within 24 hours after Soviet Union gave a threat to retreat within 48 hours pending which London and Paris would be bombed. That proved to be a great example of the revolutionary implementation of policy of peaceful coexistence.
In absence of the Socialist camp, the only alternative to thwart imperialist machination is for people to unite in well-coordinated, sustained antiimperialist peace movement round the globe, and exert the pressure of powerful public voice on the imperialist sharks. On behalf of the struggling people of India, we extend our full solidarity and fraternity with the cause of the Palestinian people and vehemently denounce the international gangsterism of US imperialism, Zionist Israeli rulers and their associates. In no case, the legitimate democratic right of the Palestinian people to govern their own country and protect sovereignty of their motherland cannot be overruled. It is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to pronounce the final word as to who would rule their country and how.
