The Gaza war, and the already fragile cease-fire attempts repeatedly breached by Israeli aggression, have shown how elusive a real and stable peace can be under the pressure of a settler-colonial regime. Nonetheless, even though more than 200 Gazans were killed in the meantime, the chief architecture of โthe day afterโ in Gaza โ U.S. President Donald Trumpโs 20-point peace plan โ is still in effect. There is, however, a long way to go on this path: the creation of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) designed to end active hostilities, a phased withdrawal of Israeli troops, and a transitional administration backed by foreign security guarantees.
No matter how much this architecture is promoted as comprehensive or denounced as being in bad faith, in practice, it suffers from an all too familiar deficit: the plan is conceived around Israeli hegemonic objectives disguised as security concerns and Western diplomatic convenience, while the essential rights and existential needs of the people of Gaza are ignored.
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