The Trump-Netanyahu peace plan is meant to be rejected, not accepted, by Hamas. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
Trump’s plan casts a shadow over the UN’s one and any whining by craven EU leaders who want to pretend to be in support for a Palestinian state.
The waiting is agonizing as it is prolonged. The Trump deal offered finally to Hamas is on the table for them to examine, but in reality what are the chances of Hamas accepting any of it? Were they expected to?
The deal itself in the paper is vague in many areas as the proposal itself looks as though it was cobbled together at the last minute. Many would argue that it is not a peace deal as such but more a blueprint to simply restore the sanctity and credibility of the negotiations – after Israel bombed Qatar very recently in its quest to kill those who is it supposedly negotiating with: Hamas.
Other would argue that it is a bold step in the right direction and that a ceasefire could come about and the Israeli hostages could be freed.
Yet there is too much blue sky thinking involved for anyone hoping that anything positive can come out of the offer that Trump has made which places him as the remote President in waiting of the Gaza Strip with Tony Blair as the caretaker Prime Minister.
So much has yet to be finalised. How could Hamas possibly accept any of the terms – the most polemic being that it gives up its arms? A number of leading analysts in the region are beginning to suspect that those who wrote this deal know only too well that Hamas can’t and so this begs the question what is the real purpose of it in the first place?
It’s no secret that Trump was caught off guard by UK, Canada and Australia all announcing their support of a Palestinian state but he was also fazed by how quickly the UN itself came up with its own proposal of a road made to self-governance. And so, Trump moved very quickly to paste together a plan which would cast a shadow over the UN’s one and any whining by craven EU leaders who want to pretend to be in support for a Palestinian state.
The comrade kommissar Tony Blair looking like a demon is not a photochop.
Being the “Decider” will do that to you.