Trump’s "Peace Plan" is a Recipe for Colonisation

The 20-point plan elaborates a governance structure that reveals its true intent. It creates a "Board of Peace" chaired by Trump himself, an “International Stabilization Force” that denies Palestinians control of their own security, and special economic zones to integrate Gaza into global circuits of capital accumulation and exploitation. Its proposed reconstruction scheme would place Palestinian land and labour under the control of foreign investors — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to no doubt the real estate empire of the Trump dynasty — without a single Palestinian voice in the process.

This governance structure explicitly excludes any role for Palestinian political forces, effectively disenfranchising the political will of Gaza's population while establishing indefinite international rule over Palestinian territory. It continues to separate Gaza from the West Bank, further institutionalizing Palestinian fragmentation and foreclosing viable pathways to self-determination.

Instead of demanding accountability for Israel’s genocidal devastation of Gaza, Trump's proposal rewards the aggressor: granting Tel Aviv security guarantees, a lasting military presence, and ultimate veto power over Gaza's political future, while reducing the Palestinians to subjects of international trusteeship.

Governments from Germany to Qatar have rushed to endorse the plan — exposing its political function. It is not a peace initiative, but an instrument of co-optation, an attempt to diffuse global outrage while advancing the fundamental aim of the genocide — the destruction of Palestinian life and land as the very basis of its aspirations for self-determination.

Trump’s plan is an ultimatum issued under bombardment and enforced famine. It conditions humanitarian aid on acceptance of the plan, evidence of the use of starvation as a method of warfare — a crime under international law. Trump himself admits this coercive logic, warning of “hell, like no one has ever seen before” for failure to accept the deal.

But the world is not without alternatives. The Hague Group, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, is coordinating states to take concrete measures — through courts, ports, and factories — to isolate Israel for its crimes. Just as Trump’s team was drafting its plan, The Hague Group convened 35 states in New York to develop a shared programme of legal and diplomatic measures and enforcement, modelled after the coordinated campaign of sanctions against apartheid South Africa.

While any ceasefire that brings relief to the besieged and bombarded Palestinian people is welcome, Trump’s proposal cannot be allowed to become the new baseline. We therefore, as the Cabinet of the Progressive International, reject this fraudulent colonisation plan and call on progressive forces everywhere to remain steadfast in their commitment to Palestine’s liberation — from the river to the sea.