Trump is trying to handpick leadership for Gaza to complete Washington’s long-term plan of handing Palestinian land to Israel.
Continuing the War on Palestine by Other Means
An article appearing on France 24 on October 14, 2025, revealed that Trump was preoccupied with handpicking leaders for Gaza and had proposed a framework for a “technocratic committee overseen by an international board of peace,” essentially a committee of colonial governors from the UK and the US. Those conversant with how Western colonialism develops know that strategically located and resource-rich regions have historically had the US and UK angling to install puppet leaders through or after wars, for instance Serbia, Iraq, and Libya among others.
It appears that after the West-backed Israeli Genocide machine failed to push Palestinians out of Gaza, Trump thinks he can achieve the same result by installing colonial management committee, comprising figures like Tony Blaire, the core architect of the US-UK colonial war on Iraq under false pretexts. The US president, like his predecessors, is unlikely to spare any effort in trying to achieve Washington’s decades-old plan of pushing Palestinians out of their land and replacing them with Jews.
Change of Mind or Change of Tactic?
The US president’s visit to Israel on October 13, 2025, which was promoted as being aimed at bringing peace, despite Washington vetoing 6 draft ceasefire proposals at the UNSC, was in real sense aimed at further strengthening Israel at Palestinians’ expense, following a policy disclosed in the early 1960s by Harry S. Truman. Truman described how his country planned to push 6 million Palestinians out of their Land over time and replace them with Jews, since removing them instantly would cause backlash. Trump understands this diabolical plan and even reiterated it when he stated that the US would take over Gaza and remove Palestinians from this small enclave where they remain after being pushed from the rest of their historical land. He certainly wishes to stretch out the remaining phase of evicting Palestinians after the plan to genocide Gazans generated nearly global backlash. Over the last nearly 2 years of one-sided war, the combined military, diplomatic, and economic efforts of the US, Europe, and Israel failed to push Palestinians out of Gaza, forcing the aggressors to take a tactical break and try another stratagem. Trump’s recent posture of bringing peace aims at allowing him to hide behind a group of preselected countries to evict Gazans through foreign colonial committees.
Trump’s address to the Israeli Knesset hailed the conversion of his daughter to Judaism, praising his Son-in-law Jared Kushner for this conversion, and for formulating the US administration’s policy towards Israel. It is now clear that Washington’s policy towards the Middle East is influenced by Jewish personalities, who are likely to support maximalist ideas of the Israeli leadership. This conversion story shows how some Europeans or Americans can become Jews and immediately earn enough right to the land of Palestine that Kushner, Trump, or Truman before think warrants relocating or killing Palestinians for. Trump would even praise Benjamin Netanyahu for “using the US weapons well,” effectively celebrating the murder of nearly 70,000 people, mostly women and children, in a war that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has found constituted Genocide.
On October 12, 2025, Trump had emphasized that the war was over before departing for Israel, which signified how easy it had always been to not only stop the war but to avoid it altogether. The war started and persisted solely because Israel’s backers wanted it for their parochial goals. Notably, even the most pro-Israel voices in the West admit that the West’s support for Israel’s expansion, even during the supposed Oslo Peace process, drove Palestinians into desperation. For instance, the former EU high representative Josep Borrell, despite having a well-known condescending attitude towards non-Europeans, stated that Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack was caused by the frustration of Palestinians. He pointed out how past US leaders, including Barack Obama, had recognized that Palestinians, like Jews, had the right to have their own state on their land. However, these leaders only supported the Jews to strengthen their state while undermining the Palestinians.
Israel’s backers abetted and facilitated the movement of hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers into Palestinian territories over the last decades. These settlers meted out violence such as evicting Palestinians, demolishing their homes, and destroying their olive groves while enjoying police and military protection, but Western leaders continued to support the Jewish state. Even to date, Netanyahu stated in September 2025 that he had repeatedly prevented the formation of a Palestinian state and encouraged Jews to settle in the West Bank, but has not been held to account, despite Washington having wasted the world’s time and attention pretending to be pursuing ‘a two-state solution’, including through the sham Oslo process. It is apparent that Netanyahu has always been a Western puppet, implementing settler colonialism over Palestine and enabling the US to pretend to be a neutral party. Meanwhile, Palestinians watched over decades as Israel used the collective strength of the West to squeeze them out of their land and encroach on their rights to life, land, worship, and others. The same West would only swing into action after October 7, 2023, to enable Israel to collectively punish Palestinians for actions done out of desperation. Over the last years, Western leaders, including Trump and Kushner, had believed that Israelis had finally found justification to eliminate Palestinians, as they gloated about how Israel would finally push Palestinians out of their territory, prevent them from returning, and appropriate their land for real estate projects.
Why The Spirited Push for Peace, Why Now?
By dramatizing his goal to achieve peace, Trump thinks he can evict Gazans through political means. Noteworthy, his administration shot down several draft peace resolutions proposed at the UNSC to stop the carnage in Gaza, facilitate the release of the hostages, and provide humanitarian access over the period of the war. Washington continued supporting the war, even after it was declared a genocide, before suddenly acting like it was interested in peace, showing how it normalizes trading human life for political points. Trump’s current drama is more of a change of tactics in pursuit of the same old US-mediated Israeli expansion. How else can one explain why the US vetoed a draft ceasefire proposal on September 18, only to announce a ceasefire on October 8, 2025 on similar terms? Trump’s current efforts should be understood in the context that Washington is trying to hijack the global push for justice for Palestine, and co-opt it with a Western puppet administration to do Israel’s bidding. He seeks to numb the Global Majority’s anger over violations perpetrated against Gazans, and to slowly return Israel to a path of expansionism. Palestinians can only achieve the freedom guaranteed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) if the rest of the world remains vigilant.
Simon Chege Ndiritu, is a political observer and research analyst from Africa
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