Imad Al-Hatab, Jordanian political writer
Trump's peace plan for Gaza has provided fertile media and political material, keeping analysts and observers occupied for some time. Should it reach the implementation stage, it could well become a media topic dominating long hours of airtime.
Many have seen Trump's plan as the only way out of their crises, rushing to announce their acceptance of it as is. Even the Ramallah authority thanked President Trump for his efforts to achieve peace. The supporters of the resistance, however, are filled with anxiety. They know the resistance has been left to stand alone after the enemy's strikes on its supporting fronts. It is caught between the hammer of the humanitarian situation resulting from the enemy's genocidal campaign in Gaza and the anvil of direct and indirect political pressure exerted by both foes and brethren.
History teaches us that Trump's plan is not the first of its kind in our struggle against colonial powers. We have seen similar plans in Palestine and Iraq, all of which failed and became chapters for researchers and historians to narrate. Yet, the people's struggle for liberation and independence has always continued, despite defeats, conspiracies, and the brutality of the colonizers.
In Palestine, in November 1935, Britain proposed the formation of a legislative council composed of 28 members: 11 Muslims, 3 Christians, 7 Jews, and 5 British officials, to be chaired by a neutral figure from outside Palestine. A few months after this proposal came the Great Palestinian Revolt (1936-1939).
In Iraq, the United States appointed Paul Bremer as ruler. He disbanded the Iraqi army, facilitated the plunder of Iraq's wealth, and worked with Western intelligence agencies to establish terrorist organizations like ISIS, which he used to justify the continued occupation of Iraq and to spread chaos and war in the region.
Today, the colonizers seek to repeat history (as a farce) through Trump's plan. While cloaked in the language of peace, it aims to seize one of the most critical keys to our region's situation: the Palestinian cause. October 7th proved that the occupation entity cannot withstand the will and action of the resistance, and that the official Arab regimes, despite their complicity, cannot ensure the Zionist entity's survival as long as there is a resistance on the ground that ignites passions and makes liberation a tangible possibility.
October 7th has exposed the crisis of the imperialist project in our region both its settler-colonial component, represented by the Zionist entity, and its objective of dominating trade routes and various resources, which forms the core of this project. It has become clear that the colonial project's crisis can only be resolved by eliminating all forms of resistance.
The colonial powers provided political and military cover for the occupation entity, allowing it to transform from an imperialist spearhead in the region into an expansionist colonial force occupying lands in Syria and Lebanon and attacking Yemen, Iran, and Qatar. To the Palestinians, they offered the lie of a "two-state solution conference," a portion of which the master of the White House decided to carve out, occupy, and administer for the Palestinians before the ink on the UN conference resolution was even dry all with Arab approval and Palestinian thanks.
The colonial objective is to disarm the resistance, not only in Palestine but also in Lebanon and everywhere else in the world. The goal is to render the people defenseless, stripped of any ability or capacity to confront colonial schemes whether it be the displacement and emptying of land of its indigenous population for a settler-colonial project, as in Palestine; the subjugation of the resistance to a sectarian, isolationist project aligned with the Zionist project, as in Lebanon; or the subjugation of peoples' national choices for independence, prosperity, and control over their own resources, as in Iran or Venezuela.
Conspiracies in all their forms have always been one of the colonizers' key tools to achieve their goals. The collaboration of some who betrayed their homelands and joined the colonial bandwagon to serve their own individual or class interests was a tool used by colonialism to infiltrate the consciousness of societies, portraying defeat and dependency as an achievement that saves blood and brings prosperity in its narrowest sense. But resistance has always remained present in the history of peoples sometimes it smolders, other times it ignites, but it never dies out. It erupts when least expected and achieves what once seemed impossible.
Despite all the despair and frustration that floats on the surface, beneath the surface of events lie embers waiting for the chance to burst into flame. A revolutionary is, by nature, an optimist. Our mission today is to support the resistance, whatever its choices on the ground may be, and to raise our voices in defense of the idea and the path of resistance. Just as resistors throughout history confronted and defeated colonizers, we must believe that victory is bound to our will and our actions, regardless of what has happened or is happening on the ground. The struggle between good and evil will endure as long as humanity exists, and we are the good, and they are the evil.
* The article was first published in the Al Mayadeen, in October 4th, 2025. It has been translated from Arabic to the English with the kind support of the Levant Files team members. The Levant Files doesn’t share all the arguments that has been expressed in the republished articles. We share the article due to the ongoing historical developments in the region.
Photo: Gemini AI