Trump’s plan casts a shadow over the UN’s one and any whining by craven EU leaders who want to pretend to be in support for a Palestinian state.

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The waiting is agonizing as it is prolonged. The Trump deal offered finally to Hamas is on the table for them to examine, but in reality what are the chances of Hamas accepting any of it? Were they expected to?

The deal itself in the paper is vague in many areas as the proposal itself looks as though it was cobbled together at the last minute. Many would argue that it is not a peace deal as such but more a blueprint to simply restore the sanctity and credibility of the negotiations – after Israel bombed Qatar very recently in its quest to kill those who is it supposedly negotiating with: Hamas.

Other would argue that it is a bold step in the right direction and that a ceasefire could come about and the Israeli hostages could be freed.

Yet there is too much blue sky thinking involved for anyone hoping that anything positive can come out of the offer that Trump has made which places him as the remote President in waiting of the Gaza Strip with Tony Blair as the caretaker Prime Minister.

So much has yet to be finalised. How could Hamas possibly accept any of the terms – the most polemic being that it gives up its arms? A number of leading analysts in the region are beginning to suspect that those who wrote this deal know only too well that Hamas can’t and so this begs the question what is the real purpose of it in the first place?

It’s no secret that Trump was caught off guard by UK, Canada and Australia all announcing their support of a Palestinian state but he was also fazed by how quickly the UN itself came up with its own proposal of a road made to self-governance. And so, Trump moved very quickly to paste together a plan which would cast a shadow over the UN’s one and any whining by craven EU leaders who want to pretend to be in support for a Palestinian state.

The important point is to keep Netanyahu happy, to keep the genocide going while Trump can claim that it is all the fault of Hamas that the killing continues. The truth is that the Trump proposal is not at all serious and should be regarded in a much more cynical light for what it really is: a smokescreen. Some even go further though and say it is a way of ensuring that a war in Gaza can actually go on for ever and that a Palestinian state would be blocked if the Trump proposal was adopted.

“Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is a poisoned chalice: while appearing to offer hope for a ceasefire and surge in aid, it surreptitiously provides Israel with a blank check for waging forever war in Gaza with US and Arab approval” argues  Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at International Institute for Strategic Studies Hassan T Alhasan recently on CNN.

“The American-Israeli plan is clearly designed to be rejected by Hamas. Its provisions are so vague that it is already being interpreted by Netanyahu as allowing for open-ended Israeli military presence in Gaza with the freedom to conduct military operations under the pretext of fighting Hamas”.

Yet the real red flag to the whole world that this offer by Trump is a loaded one is not by the vague wording of the text which favours Israel, nor by what is left out of the brief document (like Palestinian statehood), but rather the manner in which this blueprint has been presented.

Israel, supported by Trump, carries out the most heinous genocide in modern history against the poorest, most vulnerable people – if not bombing women and children in their tents then attempting to starve them to death – but then suddenly has a spasmodic pang of democratic zeal and thinks that it needs to offer Hamas a deal in writing?

Surely if Trump was serious about the offer, he and Netanyahu would simply go ahead and impose it. The real reason why it has been offered, is that both these genocidal maniacs need Hamas to reject it. When it does, then they will be able to move forward with the genocide wiping Palestinians off the map of their own land while delivering a shoulder shrug to any whimpering EU leaders who complain: “We offered Gaza a great deal, but they turned it down” will be Trump’s stock response while he continues to harp on about getting a Nobel peace prize. The Board of Peace is, in truth, a cabal of warmongering dogs who see billions to be made in Gaza. For Trump it will be a good share of the 100 bn dollar reconstruction needed to rebuild government ministries, roads, bridges, sewer works, schools and hospitals. His friends will be given the contracts of course while Netanyahu gives him his brown envelope of prime real estate along the coast so he can build luxury condominiums for high-end Gulf Arabs; for Blair, he will clean up on more multimillion dollar donations to his own global consultancy consortium when GCC leaders will queue up to pay him. If the plan were ever to get off the ground both Blair and Trump would make scores of billions of dollars while Israel gets to keep the IDF inside the strip and carry out a phoney war for the sake of delaying any two-state process.