The Great Betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim Rulers Backed Trump’s Gaza Plan : Shared by Baquer Namazi and Fouad Kronfol

A real shame and the mendacity practiced consistently
Baquer

This is the most pessimistic analysis I have ever seen. Most is unfortunately true and the Palestinians have once again been screwed, both by those who oppose them as well as those who “support” them. The inhumanity and deceitfulness is such that one loses all belief in the so-called civilized world. How low have humans fallen!
Fouad

The Great Betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim Rulers Backed Trump’s Gaza Plan

David Hearst — Middle East Eye, 1 October 2025
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Summary
David Hearst argues that Arab and Muslim leaders who endorsed Donald Trump’s Gaza plan have effectively betrayed the Palestinian cause, legitimizing Israel’s continued occupation and genocide under the guise of peace. The final agreement announced in Washington diverged sharply from the draft approved at the UN, stripping away provisions that might have led to meaningful Palestinian autonomy. Key regional players—including Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Turkey—signed on without consulting Palestinians, effectively endorsing a plan that entrenches Israeli control of Gaza and sidelines all Palestinian leadership, including the PA. Hearst calls it “a betrayal performed as a genocide in full motion,” granting Netanyahu total control over troop withdrawal, aid entry, and reconstruction.

Hearst traces the shift from the original agreement—negotiated by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner—to the radically altered version approved by Netanyahu, noting that references to aid quotas and full Israeli withdrawal were replaced by vague, conditional language. He highlights how figures like Tony Blair, once complicit in isolating Hamas, have reemerged as part of Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” symbolizing the recycling of failed Western diplomacy. The result, he writes, is a “postwar plan” that forecloses any possibility of Palestinian statehood, effectively institutionalizing subjugation through Israel’s continued dominance over borders, resources, and governance.

Hearst concludes that Arab and Muslim governments have capitulated out of fear and self-interest, abandoning Gaza’s resistance just as global opinion has turned against Israel. Palestinians, he says, are now more isolated than ever—left under a regime of “occupation on steroids” where peace is equated with submission and deradicalization means erasing their national identity.

Quotes

• “A betrayal performed as a genocide is in full motion and which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given a green light by Trump to continue.”

• “Under this plan, there is no role for any Palestinian leadership in the rebuilding of Gaza… all thoughts of joining the two [Gaza and West Bank] have been jettisoned.”

• “The betrayal of the Palestinian national cause by those Arab and Muslim leaders who claimed to have promoted it for so long had already been completed.”

• “After two years of genocide, we have ended up with a proposed settlement which is substantially worse than the situation that existed on October 6.”

• “Never have the Palestinians, wherever they live, been more alone.”