It has long been clear that no world leader – none – intends to take effective action against Zionist expansionism.

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The world looks on, largely impassive and silent, cultivating omissions while peddling false hope, as the farce surrounding Donald Trump’s so-called “20-point plan” for “peace in Gaza” unfolds. From the outset, the plan has been little more than a media contrivance — a propaganda device which, nearly two months after the announcement of a bogus ceasefire, has already delivered several strategic wins for its architects. These gains form part of a wider Western campaign, in collusion with Israel, to push the genocide in Gaza out of public view by persuading global audiences that a path towards “pacification” has somehow been opened. In reality, almost nothing has changed: there is not even a genuine ceasefire in place.

It is, without doubt, the most effective manoeuvre yet by those who perpetrate and endorse the extermination of Palestinians, and who, after two years of systematic destruction, realised that the course they were pursuing — especially after 7 October 2023 — had triggered an ever-growing wave of worldwide indignation. That anger threatened, at least hypothetically, to rebound against its instigators. Israel’s diplomatic isolation was becoming so marked that even Trump and the increasingly disoriented institutions of the European Union could see it.

A further victory for this elaborate deception, crafted to ensure that the essentials remain unchanged — or, at the very least, that conditions remain in place to continue the destruction of Palestinian life — has been the apparent “credibility” acquired by the “Trump plan” itself. As though, by some miraculous conversion, the supposedly “unbreakable bond” between the United States and Israel had suddenly been tempered by a moral awakening it has never shown; as though Washington had been moved by Palestinian suffering to devise a way out that might save face.

Global media outlets dutifully played their part. Governments and international institutions — shamefully including many in the Arab world — pretended to mobilise around the initiative, helping transform a political conjuring trick into something presented as humanitarian. The UN Security Council, now reduced to a custodian of the imperial order, eventually adopted the plan as its own — despite UNCTAD having concluded that conditions in Gaza are the most catastrophic ever recorded.

The Council’s position simply confirms — unnecessarily — that Russia and China, through their opportunistic abstentions, could not muster even the slightest expression of humanitarian solidarity with a population still condemned to death. No official in Beijing or Moscow can plausibly claim ignorance of the fact that the “Trump plan” bears no relation whatsoever to International Law as it applies to Palestine; it even disregards, ostentatiously, the right to establish a Palestinian state. Hence, when any government — not least within the EU — proclaims support for “a two-state solution” while simultaneously aligning itself with the Trump scheme, it is, more bluntly than ever, engaging in outright deceit.

Another major beneficiary of the plan’s supposed credibility is Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The document bears his fingerprints throughout — not only in its flagrant disregard for International Law, but also in the political lifeline it provides. It helps prolong his grip on office despite the criminal charges he faces within Israel’s increasingly compromised judicial institutions.

Netanyahu failed to achieve the objective he proclaimed when he escalated the violence in October 2023: the elimination of Hamas — in other words, the destruction of Palestinian armed resistance. Despite the overwhelming imbalance of firepower, and despite more than 70,000 civilians killed, Hamas and the broader resistance front remain active.

One of Netanyahu’s chief aims in embracing the Trump initiative was to secure the release of hostages still held by Palestinian groups, easing the growing political pressure and public discontent arising from his failure to return all captives — alive or dead — to Israel. This required constructing the illusion of a ceasefire to facilitate an exchange: hostages in return for the release of numerous Palestinian political prisoners. But, in truth, no ceasefire ever existed. The entire process is an illusion — a fiction endorsed by political leaders, global media and now the Security Council — allowing the public to believe that the massacre has been halted and that a path to peace may be emerging.

Under the plan, Gaza would be administered by a technocratic authority supervised by a so-called “Peace Council” chaired by Trump himself, flanked by the perennial opportunist Tony Blair and, lurking in the background, Netanyahu. This architecture is hardly encouraging for the protection of Palestinian rights. It also envisages the deployment of an international “stabilisation force” — effectively a new form of occupation — working alongside the Israeli military inside Gaza, stationed within a “yellow line” zone whose expansion would always be possible.

Such arrangements will not halt genocide, contrary to the assurances offered to the world. At best, they may slow the pace of extermination for purely presentational reasons. Sooner or later, however — once Israel has regrouped militarily, perhaps prompted by some timely “provocation by Hamas” — the onslaught will resume with renewed intensity, in pursuit of Zionism’s ultimate objective: a land called Palestine without the Palestinian people.

Who will stop it? Only the Palestinian resistance and the millions who demonstrate worldwide in solidarity. It has long been clear that no world leader — none — intends to take effective action against Zionist expansionism. Thus, are earthly laws and International Law pushed aside, supplanted by a supposed “divine law” invoked by zealots in the service of cold, calculating colonial interests drawn from the darker pages of the Old Testament. This is the true meaning of the global political vassalage shown towards Israel.