Israel/Palestine

It advised its readers not to be concerned about it - the plan was only rhetoric!

Israel will not be stopped in its goal of emptying Gaza for itself and its squatters, as you call them (an accurate description). At the same time, Netanyahu needed to stop the bleeding of goodwill towards Israel and also get the hostages back to stop the internal revolt. So he turned to Trump and his good buddy Kushner to come up with a "peace plan" that will help with that.

No doubt in my mind that Israel will not withdraw completely, ever and as time goes by it will find pretexts and excuses for expanding its occupation to all of Gaza. The clause in the agreement that says Israel will not return to areas that have been withdrawn from "as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement" was written to make that possible. I mean who believes Israel will act in good faith in making that determination?

Every peace treaty that Israel ever signed was advantageous to itself in the initial phase, which of course was always fulfilled. However the subsequent phases required Israel to give up something in return - which of course didn't happen. The violations of the latter phases of peace agreements by Israel form a historical pattern, from Camp David to Oslo to the Gaza 2025 ceasefire. I fear the same pattern will be repeated here.

But in any case this particular "peace plan" is an abomination if you believe in justice for Palestinians.