US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, meant to end the war going on for two years, has backfired on the Muslim stakeholders who supported it. For Ummah champion Pakistan and other Arab nations, the idea of getting on board must have had goodwill as a motivation. Instead, it has attracted a massive outrage. The leaders of the Arab-Islamic world are now facing the heat. People are branding them "traitors" and "backstabbers" of the Palestine cause.
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Trump's peace plan mandated the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to disarm, and Gaza to be run by a "Board of Peace" chaired by the American President himself. It said Israel would withdraw from Gaza in phases, hostages would be swapped, and Arab states would foot the reconstruction bill. The dangling carrot? A vague, undefined path to Palestinian statehood someday.
On paper, it might seem like a roadmap. On the ground, critics called it a "betrayal of the Ummah".
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