Netanyahu already telling people he won't withdraw troops. This guy can't be trusted at all. This is an
Intercept article that makes some points that illustrate some of my concerns (I scraped the source code to get past the paywall):
<p>Similar to previous ceasefire proposals throughout Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the recent plan calls for the immediate cessation of fighting, an exchange of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners, the disarmament of Hamas, and the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli military from Gaza.</p>
<p>Where this plan differs is that U.S. officials are attempting to spell out what a post-war Gaza would look like.</p>
<p>The plan states that “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza” and that “no one will be forced to leave Gaza.” Palestinians would have the ability to leave or return, a reversal from Trump’s previous calls to <a href="
Trump: “The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip”">expel all Palestinians</a> from the territory. Yet
experts cautioned that these assurances do not indicate a reversal of policy for the Israeli government, which has been consistent in its goals toward the <a href="
Israel Gives Evacuation Orders Before a Bombing. Many Gazan Families Can’t Afford to Leave.">displacement</a> of Palestinians from Gaza and total control over the territory.</p>
<p>Trump’s plan allows for Israel to have veto power during the military withdrawal phases, with terms largely set by the U.S. and Israel. Internal security of Gaza would then be managed by a so-called International Stabilization Force, led by the U.S. and other Arab states. Even after withdrawal from Gaza, the plan calls for “a security perimeter” around Gaza maintained by the Israeli military until the territory is “secure from any resurgent terror threat.” </p>
<p>Allowing Israel to maintain such a security perimeter around Gaza
all but guarantees Israel the opportunity to indefinitely occupy the territory in a similar manner to the decadeslong blockade that rendered Gaza an open-air prison preceding Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks.
In 2005, Israel withdrew its military from and dismantled its settlements within Gaza, but the Israeli military remained in control of its borders. Experts said the new proposal promises a similar chokehold on the territory, along with the possible resumption of Israel’s military campaign.</p>
<p>“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means,” said Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst on Israel/Palestine with the International Crisis Group. “Palestinians might be able to stay in Gaza, but they will not be able to really govern its affairs.” </p>
<p>At Monday’s conference, Netanyahu thanked Trump, “the greatest friend that Israel ever had in the White House,” for the plan, which he said allows his government the chance to “achieve all of our war objectives without any further bloodshed.”</p>
<p>But the Israeli leader reserved the right to “finish the job … the hard way” and resume its military campaign in Gaza if Hamas were to reject the deal or fail to meet its conditions. Immediately after the conference, in which the leaders declined to take questions from the press, Netanyahu posted a<a href="
"> video</a> in Hebrew meant to address his coalition,
promising that he does not intend to withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza.</p>
<p>As Hamas weighs how to respond to the plan, Trump on Tuesday threatened the Palestinian militant political group with “<a href="
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...ite-house-proposal-or-face-a-sad-end-00586421">a very sad end</a>” if it declines the deal. Trump said he would give Hamas “three to four days” to decide.</p>
<p>The plan already has buy-in from a number of Western nations, including the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, which all were new to recognize <a href="
These Countries Recognized Palestine, but Still Send Arms to Israel">Palestinian statehood</a> last week. Other nations that welcome the plan include Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, China, and Russia. Also supporting the plan are a host of Arab and Muslim-majority nations, such as Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which had received a draft of the plan one week earlier from the Trump administration at the United Nations headquarters. The West Bank-based <a href="
For Palestinians, U.S. Talk of a “Revitalized” PA in Gaza Is Code for Outsourced Oppression">Palestinian Authority</a> also said it welcomed Trump’s plan.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-indefinite-occupation-of-gaza">Indefinite Occupation of Gaza</h2>
<p>Experts worry that Israel’s veto power in the new Gaza plan gives it freedom to resume its military campaign at any moment.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s government has hardly been a trustworthy partner in peace agreements in recent years: Israel has <a href="
Are Trump’s Middle East Envoys Pushing Lebanon Into Another Civil War?">repeatedly bombed Lebanon</a> even after signing a <a href="
Israel Agrees to Stop Bombing Lebanon — So It Can Keep Bombing Gaza">deal with Hezbollah</a> last November, and in March, it broke the U.S.-brokered peace deal with Hamas by <a href="
“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel Is Starving Gaza">blocking all humanitarian aid</a> into Gaza and <a href="
The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza">resuming its bombing campaign</a>, blaming Hamas for not releasing enough hostages, and falsely accusing the group of preparing new attacks on Israel.</p>
<h3 class="promote-related-post__title">Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire From the Start. Why Won’t the Media Tell You That?</h3>
<p>Regardless of whether Hamas rejects or accepts the plan, Israel is sure to continue its policy of mass removal of Palestinians from the territory, said Tariq Kenney-Shawa, a U.S. policy fellow at Al-Shabaka.</p>
<p>“If Hamas rejects the ceasefire proposal, that’ll give Israel the pretext to just steamroll Gaza City and do it in the way that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir want, which is all at once in one fell swoop,” Kenney-Shawa said. But even if Hamas were to follow all of Israel’s demands of disarmament and return of hostages, he said, there is little guarantee that Israel would not <a href="
Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire From the Start. Why Won’t the Media Tell You That?">renege on the deal as it has in the past</a>.</p>
<p>For Ahmed Moor, a fellow with the Foundation for Middle East Peace, who was born in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, the Trump–Netanyahu meeting and the language in the deal echoes the <a href="
How the Oslo Accords Betrayed the Palestinian Women Behind the First Intifada">Oslo Accords of 1993</a>, which had been intended as a two-state solution, only for Israel’s government to illegally expand its settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank in the 30 years since.</p>
<p>“This is back to the future, right?” Moor said, recalling the 1993 scene on the White House’s South Lawn where Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with Palestine Liberation Organization Chair Yasser Arafat. The Oslo deal, he said, is an example of Israel “front-loading” its demands while committing to the needs of Palestinians “at some indeterminate point in the future.”</p>
<p>In the hours since Monday’s announcement, the Israeli military has killed more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza, including five people who were attempting to receive aid, according to Gaza health officials. Meanwhile, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, often sanctioned by the Israeli military, <a href="
Israeli settlement activity accelerates in the West Bank, Security Council told">continued unabated</a> with Israeli settlers setting <a href="
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...uilding-in-a-west-bank-village-no-casualties/">fire to a building</a> outside a Palestinian village near Nablus on Tuesday evening.</p>
<p>“The Palestinians today need relief from genocide,” Moor said. “This document is not going to provide that.”</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-paul-bremer-2-0">“Paul Bremer 2.0”</h2>
<p>The plan itself also envisions the installment of a transitional government called “a Board of Peace,” overseen by Trump and a panel that includes former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who since leaving office in 2007 has attempted to establish himself as a power broker between European and Middle East nations. In its purview would be the funding and redevelopment of Gaza, where wide swaths have been rendered <a href="
Israel Just Bombed the Building Next Door. Will We Be Next?">uninhabitable </a>by Israel’s brutal military offensives.</p>
<p>Adding to the vagueness around the plans’ security details, it also calls for economic redevelopment led by those behind “some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East,” a vision that falls in line with Trump’s own musings for a Gaza Riviera. The plan looks to create a framework that would attract investment, as well as the creation of a “special economic zone” and tariff scheme for nations that agree to participate. </p>
<p>Moor called such aspects of the deal “a neocolonial plan designed to enrich Tony Blair and a few other people.” He further coined the plan “Paul Bremer 2.0,” a reference to the former U.S. State Department diplomat who served as the <a href="
From the Rubble of the U.S. War in Iraq, Iran Built a New Order">head of the U.S. puppet government of occupied Iraq</a>. In other words, Gaza would be rendered “a fiefdom for other overlords to manage,” Iraqi added.</p>
Palestinian terrorists are stockpiling rockets just minutes from Jerusalem.
