Implication of Netanyahu's rejection of Palestine peace plan
Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Donald Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, with the excuse that the Israeli forces would not pull out of Gaza until Hamas had been genuinely disarmed. He also said that he would never accept a Palestinian state.
Western news outlets claim that this was a rare break between the pair of war criminals, but the truth is that both have been at loggerheads for some time over the war for West Asia, with the US seeking escape routes, especially with regard to Iran, while the Israelis have agitated for a forever war.
But what exactly is this supposed peace plan?
In September 2025, Trump unveiled a 20-point plan for Gaza's future, with a tenuous ceasefire taking hold in October 2025, which has been repeatedly violated by Israel.
Then in November last year, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, establishing the so-called Board of Peace, chaired by Trump, as a transitional body for Gaza's governance, reconstruction, and security, creating a technocratic national committee for the administration of Gaza.
Fast forward to late July 2026; the board released a new 15-point roadmap.
It linked phased decommissioning of Hamas and other groups' heavy weapons to a phased withdrawal of the Israel occupation forces, as well as the deployment of an international stabilization force, the creation of a new Palestinian technocratic administration, in addition to reconstruction and a supposed path towards statehood.
The Palestinian resistance has accepted the framework supported by mediators in Qatar and Turkey.
But on August 9, Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that Israel rejects the 15-point document. He declared that the IOF would not withdraw until Hamas undergoes what he called genuine disarmament, and he reaffirmed his rejection of Palestinian statehood.
This rejection only further evinces that the true Israeli plan for Gaza is permanent occupation and eventual annexation, with the expulsion of Palestinians from the land, and it only increases the urgency for greater material action across the world to dismantle the Zionist project.
Is Netanyahu's rejection of Trump's roadmap for Gaza really a surprise?
Well, I mean, all the way through this process, there have been all sorts of talks about agreements being reached, but of course we know that the Zionists never agree to any agreement.
Even when they've agreed to it, they don't hold to it. They immediately go about breaking it.
The board of peace is essentially a Zionist victory project, and of course the Zionists are now saying, "Well, we don't want that. We want to do exactly what we want to do whenever we want to do it".
So it's a typical situation, isn't it? Shows yet again that the only thing that you can do with the Zionists is to dismantle their colony because they will never agree to anything unless it involves them expanding their power and killing more and more people in the region and beyond.
David Miller, Academic
Netanyahu has said that he wants Hamas to be genuinely disarmed he wants them genuinely disarmed before the Israeli occupation forces will move out of Gaza. Would you comment on that?
Yes, well, the Palestinian people have a right to resistance under international law, this is very clear and has been reaffirmed by the United Nations many times, so the demand that Hamas disarm is completely unreasonable.
I would say that Hamas's response could be that Israel should disarm. In fact, that would be a more reasonable request.
So I think that that is going to be a non-starter for the Palestinian people, and by the way, intentionally so.
Israel doesn't want peace. They don't want to leave Gaza. They already occupy 70% of it now, and their plan is to take the other 30%.
I think it'd be fair to say, wouldn't it, that even if Hamas didn't exist, the Zionist colonization attempt would just simply continue, wouldn't it?
Well, absolutely. Hamas is the excuse that Israel has to continue to do what they do, but the goal here has nothing to do with disarming anyone.
I mean, the truth is Israel's able to attack the people in Gaza at will, as it is and they continue to do so.
The goal is to eliminate the Palestinian people, and until people realize that, there really isn't a chance for a real settlement here.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
The Western leadership, obviously, in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Europe, and so on are probably aware of that, but they seem to just simply go along with the Zionist entities' atrocities.
No matter what Israel does the West seem to continue to give their support to this genocidal project, don't they?
No, that's very true and very sad. I think Israel's been surprised by how much the West has tolerated their crimes, not just against the Palestinian people, but against others.
I mean, it comes to mind, you know, these flotillas that have tried to go to Gaza and been intercepted by Israel, loaded with Europeans and others from the West, and the Israelis have detained them, beaten them, raped them, and their governments, the Western governments, have said nothing.
I mean, clearly Israel could do anything to anyone at any time, and the West would not oppose it, and that's the reason Israel continues to get away with this genocide.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
And yet, notwithstanding the unqualified support that the political leadership across the West gives to the Zionist entity, the ordinary people in the West, right across Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom actually don't share that support for the Zionist project, do they?
People have been absolutely horrified by what they've seen on their computer screens, on their smartphones, and so on.
Thanks to independent media platforms, the reality, the truth of the Zionist project is actually out there, and people have been absolutely disgusted by it, and so there is a real disconnect, an increasing disconnect between the political class and ordinary people across the Western world, isn't there?
Oh, absolutely. Well, actually, I think Donald Trump said it best, apparently in a private meeting with Netanyahu, he told Netanyahu, he said, "The world hates you. They hate Israel", and it's true.
And we see that even in the US for the first time since 1948, a majority of the American people polled have said that they viewed Israel negatively, and they view the Palestinians positively.
So, Israel has lost the battle of ideas. They have lost the battle for their hearts and minds, and that's why they're now just resorting to pure brutality, and the West too is in support of Israel; towards the protesters, towards the professors who would dare say that there's a genocide going on.
Now all they have is the boot because they cannot debate their way out of this.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
No, absolutely, although I guess that that brutality has been ongoing really since 1948 and the Nakba, the massacres that took place and the displacement of three quarters of a million Palestinian people.
David, going back to this board of peace agreement, why do you think the Palestinian resistance gave their conditional support to the terms of that plan?
Well, there's been a lot of misinformation about what the terms of the plan are and what the Palestinian resistance factions, all of whom collectively have agreed to, they have not agreed, as has been widely reported, to disarm. There is no such agreement, but that will not be happening.
And of course, what we're seeing here is an attempt to strong arm the process to try and pretend that that's what's happening, but it's not. That's not part of the plan. It's not intended to happen. It's not going to happen.
Of course, people on the Board of Peace will want there to be disarmament, and they've got a process where they transfer weaponry to secure locations inside Gaza, under the control of the Palestinian resistance, or potentially other forces that come in from outside, but there's no agreement to disarm.
And of course, any agreement that there is, is conditional on movements by the Zionists, including, of course, back to the yellow line they're supposed to be at, which of course they've encroached upon ever since it was first created.
So there's an attempt by the media to suggest that this is about disarmament. It's not. It's about the steps being taken in turn, and the Zionists are not complying with their side of it. And in fact, they are refusing to engage with the whole thing, as we've just been reporting.
The Netanyahu cabinet has rejected it all out of hand. But everyone knows that there can be no movement on questions of disarmament by Hamas, or even putting the weapons into some kind of central place without there being reciprocal moves by the Zionists.
And that, of course, looks like it's not going to happen because their strategy is, as always, to lie and cheat and to take as much as they can whenever they can, unless they are stopped.
They will only move back, comply with agreements if they are forced into it. And so far, we've seen no sign that the US or the collective West or even any other country in the world is willing to enforce that.
Apart from, of course, the attempt by the Islamic Republic of Iran to enforce the agreement which they came to with the US.
We've seen, of course, in the last few days, evidence that there has been a series of backchannel discussions between Hamas and other resistance leaders and the Islamic Republic, which have resulted, as we've seen most recently in the statement issued by the Islamic Republic, talking about how ceasefires and resolutions of conflict in Lebanon, in Syria, and indeed in Gaza, are prerequisites for there to be any move to any kind of other negotiations on behalf of the Islamic Republic.
Now that's a key move, and of course some people remarked on the fact that Gaza was not explicitly included last time there was such an announcement. So we're seeing a movement in that direction, and of course, that's very welcome.
David Miller, Academic
Dan's point that a better pathway to peace would be to demand that the Israeli occupation forces dissolve, If we could bring that about, I think that would be a more long-lasting route to peace, wouldn't it?
There is no prospect of peace in West Asia, unless the whole Zionist entity is dismantled; now of course that would mean disarmament of the so-called IDF, and it would mean the dismantling of settlements.
It would mean settlers having to go home, and that's a big project.
First steps towards that, of course, might be that the IOF was disarmed, that a no-fly zone was imposed by NATO, so that the Zionists couldn't bomb anybody else, and that we should move quite quickly to war crimes trials for the leaders of the genocide, including; of course, many who were not near the top, but down towards the middle of the hierarchy.
There are many, many, thousands who would need to be arraigned of war crimes, put into prison or war camps, and re-educated, and that's a huge process.
But we're not anywhere near beginning that process yet.
David Miller, Academic
In your book you made it clear why everybody really should care about what's happening in Palestine and what the human costs are for the Palestinians of this ongoing genocide, which hasn't stopped.
Well, I mean we're watching the Palestinian people as a people being destroyed, right? That's the definition of genocide.
You know, there's various numbers as to how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, but I think the real number is probably something over 600,000.
If that's the true number, you're looking at a huge percentage of the 2.1 million Palestinians who lived in Gaza before the war, and of course, for the Palestinians that remain, they are now facing famine, they are facing disease, and Israel's preventing them from getting the medicine and the food they need and the water they need to survive.
I mean, the prospect that all the people of Gaza could be wiped out is not... It's a very realistic prospect. Israel wants to destroy the Palestinian people, and not only in Gaza, now in the West Bank, they've accelerated the violence against Palestinians, murdering Palestinians in their homes.
Of course, taking homes from Palestinians, destroying agriculture, olive trees, livestock-the brutality is incredible. Then, of course, even the New York Times did a story on the systemic use of sexual assault against Palestinians in the prisons.
So what we're witnessing is absolutely horrifying, and what it does, of course, to the people outside Palestine is it terrorizes them, and it is corrosive on the moral fiber of people in the world.
Israel now has lowered the bar of what is acceptable to do against people, and now we're seeing a lot of what they're doing in Palestine being done, for example, in the US by ICE.
So that is a huge danger here the moral injury being done to all of us.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
Absolutely, and that's a very good example of why we should all care about what happens in Palestine,
What do you make of the political class, the politicians in Western countries who refuse to call out the genocide?
They won't use the term genocide when all the evidence points to this being a very clear genocide.
What do you say to those politicians, and what's driving them to actually refuse to call out what it actually is?
Yeah, not only are they refusing to call it out, they're punishing people who do call it out, like our colleague David Miller here, who, congratulations, just got his job back in the United Kingdom.
Yes, why don't they call the genocide genocide? Well, because of course that would mean under international law and in many cases their own domestic law, they would have to stop supporting Israel. In fact, would have to do something to stop the genocide.
They are all signatories to the Genocide Convention, right? But why don't they want to do that? Why do they continue to support Israel?
Because Israel is a project of the West, it is a settler colonial outpost of the West, and it is doing the bidding of the West. And that's what we have to remember.
You know, a lot of times, people are like, "Well, Israel has so much influence over the West", and that's true, of course. But that kind of suggests that they're not doing what the West wants them to do when they really are, and they are expanding Western settlements throughout the Middle East, and we're seeing that happen right now.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
Yes, indeed, of course, many of these people, these Western leaders, are complicit, really, because they've actually armed the genocide, and ought to be facing justice in The Hague, along with the Zionist leadership.
It seems that the Zionists are determined to colonize Gaza in its entirety, and they won't stop there, will they? I mean, they've got designs on a Greater Israel project as well. But I wonder how much of the world do you think has actually woken up to that reality?
The idea of a greater Israel was in the founding documents of the Zionist movement and the diaries and the programmatic statements. But until recently, it was regarded as being something of a conspiracy theory.
So when the Yinon Plan was published some years ago by Israel Shahak, famous anti-Zionist Israeli author, it was still regarded as being on the conspiracy fringes.
But of course, recently with the genocide and the open talk of expansion, not just to the whole of Palestine, but beyond, people have begun to wake up to that. But it's a slow process.
So yes, people on the ground begin to see it, but whether it's recognized at the levels of policy is much more ambiguous.
So look, they want a greater Israel, yes. Their notion of a greater Israel is Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, as mentioned and discussed in the Bible, which is from the Nile, that is in Egypt, all the way to the Euphrates.
So that, of course, includes all of Palestine, half of Egypt, most of Iraq, part of Turkey, of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, as well.
So that's what they have always wanted. But now, of course, we see different interpretations of what the Greater Israel is, and we've seen recent statements about whether it includes part of Cyprus, whether it extends to Greece, how far it extends north, and all those questions.
But that, of course, even then is not the limit of their ambitions, and that's why they have first of all the Abraham Accords, which is the normalization treaty, which is being led by the United Arab Emirates, a Zionist Islamophobic power, and of course another leading participant in the Abraham Accords is Morocco, a country which had its intelligence services in the 1950s created by the Mossad.
So there's been an attempt to move through the whole of West Asia, through the whole of North Africa, and it doesn't stop there.
That's why we have the Isaac Accords in Latin America. We have this penetration by the Zionists in the US, the UK, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia.
This is an attempt to control the whole world, and people sort of balk when I say that. But that is their intention, and they have many methods to do that.
David Miller, Academic
Netanyahu has made it clear that he'll never accept a Palestinian state and the so-called opposition in the Zionist entity agree with him. So, what do you say to those in the pro-Palestine camp who still cling to the notion of a two-state solution?
Israel destroyed the chance of a two-state solution long ago. Where would that state even be? Right, there is no viable two-state solution, and Israel will never ever accept such a thing. It is a fool's errand at this point.
Dan Kovalik, Lawyer, Author and Commentator
The pro-Palestinian movement all need to wake up to that reality.
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