The Fallacy of Gaza “Peace Plan” and Failure of Arab-Muslim Leadership

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE, 6 Oct 2025

Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service

Are We, the People, at the end of a world of wars or at the end of an age of reason, peace and accountability? The preposterous 20 points ‘Gaza Peace Plan’ is a paper plan, a recipe of cataclysmic process unfolding in historic but complex hybrid culture of politics. Decades earlier, George W. Bush called Ariel Sharon  a “ man of peace”, the known killer of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and his “Road Map” to peace between Israel and Palestine. Time and history are repeating dreadful cruelties  and pursuit of unbridled ambitions and power for fame and fortune – a plan full of absurdities and contradictions.  Both Trump and Netanyahu  care for greed and glory, not peace or people or laws. Somehow, they dream of a Nobel Peace Prize to come from somewhere. Professor Norman Finkelstein (Al-Jazeera interview:10/4/25), is correct: “Trump and Netanyahu are using genocide to make peace and it is not going to work.” A rational peace plan should have engaged both parties to the conflict in Gaza and other parts of Palestine. President Trump claims credit as the chairman of the authority( to be formed) to supervise its implementation. The plan has no logical framework to end the war, the release of hostages, resumption of law and order, restoration of the supplies of essentials of life, foods, medicine, functional service infrastructures and accountability for the crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza. Conflicting interpretations and contrasts appear inherent as PM Netanyahu clarified, IDF will stay in Gaza and President Trump assumes the end of war, Palestinians will stay in Gaza and it will be free of Israeli occupation. If the Arab-Muslim leaders  were intelligent and responsible  and had the capacity to challenge the unwarranted outcome, simply not to wait and watch the multiple humanitarian tragedies unfolding without an end. Their complicity and failure helped Israel and the US to continue the war and destroy all forms of life and future for the 2.5 million people of Gaza. Would the future generations curse them or cure them?

The Arab-Muslim Leaders live in Abyss

Do people and nations learn from critical challenges and misfortunes of time? The oil discovery propelled fake economic prosperity and the Arabian gulf region and masses fell victims to consumerism and its aftermath.  Often people and nations go astray, galvanized by economic prosperity. Western opportunists encouraged authoritarianism and militarization to produce tyrants from systematic tyranny across the region.  Islam transformed the Arabs from an age of ignorance and tribalism unto ‘One Ummah’ – a Nation of moral and intellectual characteristics to influence the 16^th century European Renaissance of knowledge, scientific discoveries, medicine and human development– as one of the leading forces Arab thinkers and intellectual influenced European thinking hubs, intellectual cultures and scientific -technological advancements. The Arab culture lost all those values when they left Islamic heritage and adapted to copy-cat foreign traditions of materialism and superficial oil-led happiness.

Gaza and the West Bank are obliterated by Israeli war over 23 months of continuous bombardments of civilian infrastructures. If the leading Arab leaders had capacity and moral-intellectual foresight, they should have challenged the insanity of war and protected the innocent masses of Gaza. But they look for escape from reality under the US military shield. If Israel is not stopped, soon the leading oil exporting Arab states could fly Israeli-American flags for a change.

The Peace Plan has No Peace but Continued Occupation and War

The Trump-Netanyahu’s 20 Points Peace Plan mocks common sense and negates on-going bombardments and prevalent truth of deaths and destruction across Gaza. The UN or any other legitimate international body is not part of the supervision  or surety of its implementation. Hamas and PLO leaders are gone and most Arab-Muslim leaders are in moral and intellectual disarray and dead conscious. There is no international humanitarian law, no UN Security Council and no other global mechanism of conflict resolution to make Israel-the US abide by its obligations within the international systems of governance. When cold blooded massacres are a daily event, foods and medicines are blocked and starvation becomes a weapon to dehumanize mankind, no conscientious leaders dare to stop the insanity as if Palestinians are not normal human beings. Are the people of Gaza and Palestine for trades-in to the Arab-Muslim leaders? All of the UNO’s Charter, Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declarations of Human Rights appear in books just in dry ink and meaningless words. Please see: “Israel Lost the War and America Betrayed Humanity in Gaza.” https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2024/05/15/israel-lost-the-war-and-america-betrayed-humanity-in-gaza.php

Insane Leaders Bomb the Living Earth that Sustains Life and Humanity

Israel so far, has dropped more than 70,000 ton of bombs on Gaza- more insane than what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War 2. The earth is living and spins at 1670 km per hour and orbits the Sun at 107,000 km per hour. Imagine, if this spinning fails, what consequences could occur to the living beings on Earth. Think again, about the average distance of earth from moon is 93 million miles -the distance of Moon from Earth is currently 384,821 km equivalent to 0.002572 Astronomical Units. Earth is a “trust” to mankind for its existence, sustenance of life, survival, progress and future-making. The Earth exists and floats without any pillars in a capsule by the Will of God, so, “Fear God Who created life and death.” Is human intelligence still intact to understand this reality? Wherever there is trust, there is accountability. All human beings are accountable for their actions. The Divine warning (The Quran: 7: 56), warns: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good.

The Divine Message (Quran:40:64), clarifies:

It is God Who made for you the Earth as a resting place and the sky as a canopy; And has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful, And has provided for your Sustenance, of things pure and good; Such is God your Lord. So Glory to God, The Lord of the Worlds.

The Jewish people (progeny of Jacob), followers of Moses  were warned  and prohibited of killing of innocent people as enshrined in the Ten Commandments (Torah):

‘Thou shalt not kill’ (Exod. 20:13; also Deut. 5:17). Jewish law views the shedding of innocent blood very seriously, and lists murder as one of three sins (along with idolatry and sexual immorality), that fall under the category of yehareg ve’al ya’avor – meaning “One should let himself be killed rather than violate it.

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Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution,  Dec 2019.

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