No Peace Without Accountability
TikTok TikTok … a ceasefire could not come sooner for the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Of course, the primary goal is to protect the lives and lands of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but as Israel signals a tactical pause of it’s genocide in Gaza and world leaders from Europe to Australia praise Trump for “bringing us closer to peace,” the truth is much simpler: There cannot be peace or even a sustained ceasefire now — or in the future — without accountability for Israel’s crimes. Trump’s plan does not end the war, it repackages it.
It does not stop the genocide, it manages its aftermath. And it does not deliver peace, it demands surrender.
Hamas’s partial acceptance of Trump’s framework is being hailed as progress. But without Israeli accountability for the destruction of Gaza, the starvation, the amputations, the erasure of an entire people — there can be no peace.
Anything else is a pause before the next massacre.
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni pledged her “full support.” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it a “significant step forward.” Australia’s Anthony Albanese urged Hamas to “lay down its arms.” Even Colombia’s Gustavo Petro said he agreed with Trump “this time,” and Egypt put the cherry on top praising Trump’s “realistic vision.”
The elephant in the room is that Israel is an extension of the USA, or at least it quite literally owns the its politicians. In fact, Netanyahu brags about it.
“Oslo Gave Us an Airport”
On Al Arabiya this week, I sat on a panel with Khalil Sayegh who was born and raised in Gaza, and Jamal Nazzal of Fatah. The minute I began questioning Trump’s so-called peace plan and Tony Blair’s bloody legacy in Iraq, Jamal interrupted me four times. “
Ikhras” he shouted — shut up in Arabic — calling me a “leftist”, accusing me of opposing a ceasefire “like Ben Gvir” and then defending Blair, insisting that he should “be given a chance” to govern Gaza.
When I asked rhetorically what Oslo had actually delivered, Jamal proudly answered:
“Oslo gave us an airport.”
An airport. A symbol of “statehood” that was operational for less than two years before Israel bombed it into rubble. That’s what passes as an achievement in Oslo logic. Symbols in place of sovereignty. Scraps in place of freedom.
A ceasefire is the first step, but is it a ceasefire, if it means a surrender, not just for Hamas, but for Palestinians? This is exactly the danger of Trump’s plan: it is Oslo all over again, only more nefarious, and at a much higher human cost.
At one point, he dismissed me personally, implying that because I live abroad I cannot understand the “price” Palestinians must pay, accusing me of having a “comfortable life.” I reminded him: I am not complicit in policing Palestinians in the West Bank.
But beyond the personal attacks, the debate revealed something deeper: the cynical logic of this plan. Palestinians are told they must accept trusteeship, accept Tony Blair, accept Donald Trump, because otherwise there will be no ceasefire, no hostage release. Liberation, we are told, is too costly. But that logic is coercion. It is leveraging civilian suffering — Israeli hostages, Palestinian families under bombs — to extract political surrender.
As I said on air, real alternatives exist: a negotiated prisoner and hostage exchanges, sanctions on Israel for genocide, rebuilding Palestinian leadership accountable to the people, and escalating global resistance: protests, strikes, legal action, digital activism.” That is the alternative: not surrender, but pressure. Not trusteeship, but self-determination. Not pacification, but liberation.
I reminded Jamal:
you cannot bomb a population into peace. You cannot “de-radicalize” a people while amputating their children and starving their families. Real peace begins with equality and accountability, not with boards chaired by the very men who armed and enabled genocide.
A Historic Trap
Most Palestinians and historians like Ilan Pappe view Oslo as a historic betrayal. It was sold in 1993 as a peace process that would lead to a Palestinian state within five years. Instead, it entrenched Israeli control.
On paper, Oslo gave Palestinians:
A Palestinian Authority to manage schools and municipalities.
International recognition of the PLO.
A framework for endless negotiations.
In reality, Oslo delivered:
No sovereignty: Israel retained borders, airspace, resources, and movement.
Accelerated land theft: Settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem more than quadrupled.
Fragmentation: the West Bank carved into Areas A, B, C — Israel keeping 60% of the land.
Security coordination: The PA turned into a subcontractor of the occupation.
Refugees sidelined: The Right of Return erased from the agenda.
More checkpoints, more permits, more walls, and less freedom. Edward Said was right to call Oslo “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles.”
Then again, he was also a “leftist” living abroad, so what does he know anyway?
When Jamal defends Oslo by boasting of “an airport,” with a fleet of 3 planes, that was delayed by the siege and occupation, it captures the absurdity, and exposes the collusion. Oslo gave us symbols, not sovereignty. And Trump’s plan promises to do the same.
Trump’s Plan: Oslo 2.0 With a Colonial Mask
Read the fine print: Gaza is to become a “de-radicalised terror-free zone.” It will be run by a technocratic Palestinian committee — supervised by an International Board of Peace chaired by Donald Trump himself, with Tony Blair as overseer. Security will be enforced by an International Stabilisation Force. Reconstruction will be managed by a “panel of experts” from “miracle cities.”
As Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar put it: “The 20 points that President Trump made public are not ours.” The U.S. plan is not the same as the draft floated by Arab and Muslim countries.
Why continue to recycle colonial model recycled for the 21st century? Why manage a people enduring genocide like a failing company, with war criminals as CEOs?
There is no commitment in the text to a permanent ceasefire. Nothing that protects Palestinians from more bombing.
As Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies noted, Trump’s Gaza plan offers “no guarantees to protect Palestinians — but it does guarantee a long-term occupation by foreign troops.”
Blair: The Viceroy of Disaster
As Quartet envoy (2007–2015), Blair promised “economics first.” The outcome? More settlements. More apartheid. Gaza bombed in 2008, 2012, 2014. Eight years of “peace work” and Palestinians were further from freedom than ever.
That’s the man Trump wants as Gaza’s regent. A man who should be standing trial at The Hague, not dictating the future of a people he helped destroy. Shall we just pretend The Tony Blair Institute didn’t participate in the “Trump Riviera” project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the strip’s economy along with an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”?
Genocide Masquerading as Peace
The reality is this plan is being rolled out as Gaza is being annihilated. Every eight minutes, a bomb falls. Gaza is now the child amputation capital of the world. Starvation is engineered. Hospitals are bombed. Families are being erased daily.
None of this is “self-defense”. It is genocide — confirmed by the UN Commission of Inquiry. And yet Trump and Netanyahu staged a press event to sell their plan,
Genocide cannot be “paused” into peace. Without accountability, any ceasefire is simply a reset for more killing.
Why Now? To Smother Resistance
So why this plan now? Because resistance is growing.
Hundreds of thousands march in capitals worldwide. Italian dockworkers strike against Israeli cargo. The Sumud Flotilla sails again even after Israel abducted dozens of citizens and lawmakers.
TikTok … TikTok … Enter Larry Ellison. The billionaire who built Oracle for the CIA and now controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Channel 10 in Australia, and Channel 5 in the UK. By the end of 2025, he’s expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery — home to Harry Potter, Superman, HBO, and CNN — a move that could create one of America’s largest media giants, pending regulatory approval.
TikTok is already censoring criticism of Israel and the “peace plan”. Fox, a Murdoch asset, is maneuvering to join Ellison’s consortium — paving the way for coordinated cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok and further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.
Meanwhile, public opinion in the U.S. is shifting: 60% disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza, nearly double the 32% approval.
This is the other half of the Trump-Blair plan: not just managing Palestinians under trusteeship, but managing the world’s perception, disciplining dissent into silence.
The Real Alternative: Accountability, Sanctions, and People Power
When I pressed on what Palestinians should do if they reject Trump’s plan, I answered plainly: sanctions, accountability, and resistance.
We do not reward war criminals with trusteeship; we hold them accountable. Israel is committing genocide — confirmed by the UN Commission of Inquiry — and any plan that ignores this, as Trump’s does, is not a peace plan but a cover-up.
Arab states that are deepening trade with Israel in the middle of genocide must use that trade as leverage. Profit margins are being weighed against the mass graves of Palestinians, and this plan is designed to perpetuate this perverse pattern.
As Ghassan Kanafani wisely warned: “You don’t exactly mean peace talks. You mean capitulation.”
This plan demands capitulation, dressed up as governance reform. Palestinians will be displaced, starved, amputated — and then “de-radicalized,” as if oppression can be erased in seminars.
Learn From Oslo, Refuse Trusteeship
Oslo teaches us that symbols are not freedom. Airports are not sovereignty. Flags and police forces are not liberation.
When Jamal shouted “ikhras” on air, he wasn’t just trying to silence me. He was repeating Oslo’s lesson: shut up, accept scraps, obey. But Palestinians cannot afford to shut up anymore, regardless whether the person telling us to shut up is Israeli or not.
Palestinians cannot afford another Oslo.
Palestinians cannot afford to celebrate “an airport” while our land is stolen, our children slaughtered, and our future outsourced to war criminals in suits.
Trusteeship is not peace. Tony Blair is not a savior. And Donald Trump is not a peacemaker.
The only way forward is to escalate pressure, amplify resistance, and insist on justice, equality, and freedom — not as conditional gifts, but as inalienable rights.
The Trump plan is the scam of the century. It’s already stopped many planned actions such as calling for the Uniting for peace resolution and military intervention, UEFA voting to sanction Israel. A ridiculous surrender plan that will make the lives of Palestinians in Gaza worse than before Oct 7.
Israel will not stop. Do not believe them for they are a rabid terrorist state. Do not believe the Americans, who consistently betray the world; America just gathered all its generals together to hype increasing its lethality for some expected future war. With whom? This isn’t peace. They might have just said: well, we can takeover the easy way or the hard way. But it’s just a colonization and erasure plan. Don’t believe it!!