The so-called Gaza “peace plan” offers no real peace. It is a pause in killing, not a step towards liberation. After months of destruction, the truce promises only a breath of air for a besieged population while Israel, backed by the US, Britain and all its allies, maintains the machinery of occupation and control untouched.
Every ceasefire is welcomed by those who long to bury their dead and feed their children. Yet the so-called “peace plan” is nothing but a lie until Gaza remains under siege and the West Bank under military rule. Humanitarian corridors and aid deliveries cannot substitute for the end of apartheid, occupation, and settler expansion that detine Palestinian reality.
The plan’s first phase – an exchange of prisoners and hostages – might ease immediate suffering, but it is framed to protect Israel’s strategic dominance. Nothing in the agreement guarantees an end to bombardment, settlement expansion, or forced displacement. The promise of “security” once again means security for the occupier, not freedom for the occupied.
In particular, this Oslo-inspired proposal seeks not justice but continuation of the previous colonialist aims, if only with a different tactic. The “peace plan” would reinstall the discredited Palestinian Authority as the warden of Gaza, a body that long ago abandoned resistance for coordination with the occupier. The PA’s corruption, repression, and collaboration have earned it no legitimacy among its own people. Replacing Israeli soldiers with Palestinian administrators is not liberation, but the continuation of occupation through a new mask.
On the material aspect, reconstruction is presented as generosity, but is nothing more than a business plan. The same powers that destroyed Gaza now promise to rebuild it through international contractors, donor conferences, and new debts. Capital everywhere, from Washington to Beijing and Moscow, agrees on one thing: profit. Under the imperialist banner of “rebuilding”, the imperialist world unites in turning Gaza’s ruins into a marketplace.
All these developments once again reveal the complete falsehood of the so-called two-state solution. Such a plan can only exist by granting Israel everything it demands – territorial expansion, economic domination, military supremacy and impunity – leaving at best a small enclave with the superficial appearance of “independence”. But in truth, Zionism would still rule even that enclave through its local lackeys, and, as history shows, would seize that territory back in the next war as soon as the opportunity arises.
This ‘peace plan’ points in the same direction: a distant but possible path toward absorbing the progressive sections of the Palestinian bourgeoisie who now appear as brave leaders of the struggle. Unlikely for now, this outcome remains possible, as shown by Fatah and other once-progressive forces turned into loyal managers of oppression. As before, Israel would prevail not only through arms but by turning parts of its opposition into tools of control.
In this context, britain plays its usual role, praising peace “efforts” and offering technical support to ceasefire monitors while maintaining unwavering material and political backing for Israel. Words of “humanitarian concern” ring hollow, not only against the backdrop of lucrative agreements, but also amid the escalating attacks on the very right of the pro-Palestinian movement to exist.
Hence we have to recognise that this ceasefire is no real peace, and that our international solidarity must not rest. For us, solidarity means organisation: from workplaces to streets, from unions to associations, the movement must continue to organise. Our task ahead is to raise the struggle to a material level, linking protests to working-class organising, preparing the ground for increasing levels of collective industrial action.