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TRUMP-NETANYAHU JOINT REMARKS RIPPED AS ‘LITANY OF LIES… NOT A
PROMISING FOUNDATION FOR PEACE’  
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Brad Reed
September 29, 2025
Common Dreams
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_ One critic noted Trump’s plan for Gaza “contains numerous
opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has
repeatedly done in the past.” _

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu pose for a photo outside the White House in Washington, DC
on July 7, 2025., (Photo: Benjamin Netanyahu/Facebook)

 

US President Donald Trump
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that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to a peace
plan to end the war in Gaza—but many critics were skeptical that
anything good would come from it.

The plan, which the White House released
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requires Hamas to return all remaining Israeli hostages it took in the
October 7, 2023 attacks in exchange for the release of nearly 2,000
Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli custody.

The plan also mandates that Hamas have no role in governing Gaza
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responsibility for running the exclave would be handed over on a
temporary basis to “a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian
committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public
services and municipalities for the people in Gaza.”

Notably, the Trump proposal dropped previous demands he’d made about
expelling Palestinians from their land, and it stated that “no one
will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free
to do so and free to return.” The plan also says that ”Israel
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Gaza,” even though Netanyahu and his government for months
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intend to take full control of Gaza.

The plan drew some immediate criticism from skeptics, however.

Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International
Policy and former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders
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the Trump plan for not being a serious proposal to achieve peace
between Israelis and Palestinians.

“Trump and Netanyahu’s remarks today were a litany of lies about
the last 30 years, not a promising foundation for peace,” Duss said.
“Despite his claim of being close to a deal, Trump’s statement
that Israel will have ‘full US backing’ to ‘finish the job’ in
Gaza if his plan is not agreed to stood out most clearly. This would
be more of what we have seen not only the last nine months, but the
last two years, as the United States has unconditionally armed and
subsidized a genocide in Gaza.”

Duss welcomed Trump seemingly taking the forced expulsion of
Palestinians from Gaza off the table as part of his plan, but added
that it also “contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to
renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past.”

_Drop Site News’_ Ryan Grim appeared equally skeptical that the
Trump plan would hold up, and he wrote
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he’s waiting to see “what Netanyahu does to scuttle the deal once
he leaves the White House.”

Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft, observed in a social media post that Trump had
successfully pressured Netanyahu to apologize to the government of
Qatar for launching an attack
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Hamas leaders on its soil earlier this month.

“That Netanyahu was forced to apologize to the emir of Qatar by
phone from the White House with Trump in the room shows the leverage
that the US has over Israel when it chooses to,” he wrote
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chooses otherwise. It could’ve chosen not to support the genocide in
the first place.”

_Drop Site News_ reported
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after the deal was announced that the governments of Qatar and Egypt
have given it to Hamas, which said it would study the proposal.

_Brad Reed is a staff writer for Common Dreams._

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