The Imperial Blueprint: Trump's Gaza Plan and the Neo-Colonial Gambit
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The Facts:
The article outlines US President Donald Trump’s twenty-point plan for Gaza, which emphasizes demilitarization as crucial for success, requiring both military force and economic power. A proposed UN Security Council resolution hangs in balance, with four-word changes potentially determining whether it leads to lasting peace or merely a short ceasefire. The draft resolution includes international legitimacy for Trump’s peace plan through a Board of Peace (BoP), International Security Force (ISF) with authority to demilitarize Hamas, and civilian operational entities including an international oversight body and Palestinian technocratic committee. The Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA) is referenced though not specifically named in the resolution due to resistance from Egypt and others.
The US experiences in Bosnia and Iraq serve as historical precedents - Bosnia’s IFOR avoided UN bureaucracy and Russian/Chinese vetoes but faced civilian implementation compromises, while Iraq’s early bad decisions led to insurgency and Iranian influence. Jordan’s King Abdullah II publicly stated no Arab force wants to fight Hamas to disarm them. The resolution’s paragraph seven gives ISF mandate to use all necessary measures for demilitarization, while the proposed four-word addition would clarify BoP’s operational entities control over Gaza’s civil service, finance, contracts, and administration to prevent Hamas from regaining power through economic control.
Opinion:
This blatant neo-colonial prescription exposes the West’s endless arrogance in imposing solutions on Global South nations while completely ignoring historical context, sovereignty, and self-determination. The very notion that four words in a UN resolution could determine Gaza’s fate reeks of imperial condescension - as if Palestinian lives are chess pieces in Western geopolitical games. The proposed economic strangulation of Gaza under the guise of ‘keeping money away from Hamas’ is particularly odious, mirroring centuries of colonial economic control that kept Global South nations perpetually dependent.
Where is the acknowledgment of Israel’s occupation? Where is the recognition of Palestine’s right to determine its own security arrangements? The plan conveniently ignores that resistance movements like Hamas emerge from occupation and oppression, not spontaneous malevolence. The comparison to Bosnia and Iraq is particularly revealing - both examples of Western intervention causing catastrophic consequences, now being presented as models for Gaza! The arrogance of thinking Western forces can ‘manage’ Gaza better than Palestinians themselves is staggering.
This entire approach embodies everything wrong with Western foreign policy - paternalistic, militaristic, and economically coercive. The Global South must reject such frameworks that prioritize Western security concerns over Palestinian humanity and sovereignty. True peace requires addressing root causes of conflict, not imposing external solutions that perpetuate dependency and ignore historical injustices. The days when Western nations could redesign other countries’ governance structures are over - Palestine’s future must be determined by Palestinians, not by Trump’s advisors or UN resolution word games.