© Daniel Torok/White House photoUS President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Vermer Room • White House • July 2025
President Donald Trump says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the latest U.S.-backed "peace plan," which is ostensibly aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza.
Trump made the announcement during a joint press conference with Netanyahu, which followed a White House meeting between the two leaders. It's Netanyahu's fourth trip to Washington since Trump began his term in January.
During the meeting, Trump facilitated an Oval Office phone call between Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, in which the Israeli leader apologized for the September 9 attack on Doha.
Netanyahu expressed regret about the strikes and, specifically, "that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty," according to a White House readout of the phone call.
Despite being touted as a diplomatic breakthrough, the 20-point plan recycles a number of previous White House declarations.
The plan would include a prisoner swap, complete Hamas disarmament, and the formulation of a transitional government led by an international body. Additionaly, it requires Gaza to become "deradicalized terror-free zone."
Trump would chair a "board of peace" to reconstruct the Gaza Strip as part of the program, while Jordan and Egypt would train new Palestinian security forces.
Trump told reporters that it was an "extremely fair" proposal and claimed that Hamas "wants to get this done too," despite reports that Hamas has yet to receive the plan. Trump said:
"I also want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for agreeing to the plan and for trusting that if we work together, we can bring an end to the death and destruction that we've seen for so many years, decades, even centuries and begin a new chapter of security, peace and prosperity for the entire region."If Hamas rejects the deal, Trump said Israel "would have my full backing to finish the job" of destroying the group. Netanyahu said Hamas could choose the "easy way or hard way" going forward.
"Everyone understands that the ultimate result must be the elimination of any danger posed in the region, and that danger is caused by Hamas," explained Trump.
Neither leader took questions after the press conference.
Shortly before the meeting, Axios published a report by Marc Caputo and Barak Ravid, which claimed Trump is "willing to break with him over Gaza for the first time since returning to office." It quoted an anonymous Trump official who insisted that "everyone — and I mean everyone — is exasperated with Bibi."
Despite such assertions, the Trump administration has continued to support the assault on Gaza without conditions of any kind.
Earlier this month, in a 72-page report, the UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and called for an arms embargo on the country.
After the report was released, UN human rights chief and commission member Navi Pillay, wrote:
"What does this mean for the international community? It means its obligations are not optional. Every state has an obligation to prevent genocide wherever it occurs. That obligation requires action: halting the transfer of weapons and military support used in genocidal acts, ensuring unimpeded humanitarian assistance, stopping the mass displacement and destruction, and using all available diplomatic and legal means to stop the killing. To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity."
The Palestinian people have been radicalised by the isreali apartheid regime itself who have been murdering and thieving its way around Palestine for over a century. This religious cult cannot live in peace anywhere without exploiting and terrorising its neighbours. This religious cult is the nightmare neighbour of the region.
This peace plan is nothing of the sort. It's yet another lie to subjugate Palestine without the apartheid regime losing anymore grunts on the ground. The world isn't going to believe the worlds two biggest liars who have been plying their trade for decades.
The Trumpster's 'board of peace' is almost correctly titled except for the peace part. He proposes to have what will be left of Palestine governed by a board of international companies and headed by toady blaaar. He governed Blighty so well that he was taken to task and is now hated by the people of Blighty to such a degree that this parasite cannot walk the streets of Blighty without a bodyguard.
Hamas isn't going to reject this deal because the time has come, now that their patsy work is done, to wrap everything up and tie up all the loose ends.
Palestine will only be free and peaceful if the world stops listening to its two biggest liars as they play through their double act.