"Only a decolonised plan centred on Palestinian sovereignty can bring lasting peace to Gaza. United States President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance, while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely."
"This logic is not new. It repeats the century-long Anglo-American approach to Palestine, beginning with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, when the UK acquired the Mandate over Palestine, and continuing through successive US interventions, direct and indirect, in the region since 1945. A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding. It should restore Palestinian sovereignty by addressing the central issue: Palestinian statehood."
"The plan must empower the Palestinian Authority (PA) by establishing that it holds governance from the outset, that economic planning is exclusively in Palestinian hands, that no external viceroys intervene, and that a clear and short timeline is set for Israeli withdrawal and full Palestinian sovereignty by the start of 2026. What follows is a truly decolonised alternative a plan that builds on these principles. It retains the practical elements of Trump's proposal but removes its colonial underpinnings."
Only a decolonised Gaza plan centered on Palestinian sovereignty can bring lasting peace. The 20-point Gaza peace plan offers constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction but places Gaza under external trustees and defers Palestinian statehood. A decolonised alternative restores Palestinian sovereignty by empowering the Palestinian Authority from the outset, assigning exclusive Palestinian control over economic planning, prohibiting external viceroys, and mandating Israeli withdrawal with full Palestinian sovereignty by early 2026. The alternative preserves measures for hostage release, cessation of fighting, emergency humanitarian relief, and reconstruction, and aligns with the 2024 ICJ ruling, UNGA resolution, and recognition by 157 countries.
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