Trump's Peace Plan Must End Genocide, Not Rebrand It Dear Email, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) cautiously welcomes President Trump’s announcement of an agreement between Hamas and Israel on the first phase of a proposed “peace plan.” However, we remain deeply concerned about Israel’s tactics and the deceptive maneuvers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government repeatedly signals that its sole priority is the return of Israeli prisoners—followed by a resumption of genocidal warfare in Gaza. This skepticism is well-founded. Israel previously reneged on a U.S.-brokered agreement reached in January under the Biden administration, with support from then-President-elect Trump. That agreement outlined three phases leading to a permanent ceasefire. Yet Netanyahu withdrew from the deal at the end of the first phase in early March and resumed brutal military operations in Gaza, including a systematic campaign of starvation targeting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.  AMP emphasizes that the core issue is not prisoner exchange—it is the urgent need for a permanent end to the genocide. We assert the following principles: - The final agreement must include a complete and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, without delay or obstruction.
- Palestinians alone have the right to determine their future.
- Any Palestinian technocratic government must be rooted in national Palestinian legitimacy.
- Humanitarian aid must enter immediately, without restrictions, and in quantities dictated by actual need—not by Israel’s punitive calculations.
- Reconstruction of Gaza must proceed without the displacement of its residents. This is non-negotiable.
- President Trump must honor his commitments to securing a permanent ceasefire and must not allow Netanyahu to manipulate him again.
For over two years, Palestinians have endured one of the most horrific genocidal campaigns in modern history, and the United States has been a full partner in this Israeli crime. Nothing can erase this complicity, and it will remain a stain on America’s moral record. The very least President Trump can do now is to restrain Israel and its blood-soaked leadership from continuing this atrocity—an extermination campaign that has killed well over 70,000 Palestinians and wounded tens of thousands more. The world watches as an entire population is starved, with infants dying on camera from hunger. This is a shame upon all humanity—one that no apology or justification can cleanse. "History did not begin on October 7, 2023, and it certainly did not end there. For over a century, the Palestinian people have endured injustice, dispossession, occupation, displacement, repression, genocide, defamation, and the stripping of their humanity," said Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, AMP's Executive Director. It is overdue for the Palestinian people to reclaim their full national and human rights.
It is overdue for the world to stop ignoring Palestinian suffering.
It is overdue for the United States to end its complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. And it is far overdue for Palestinians to enjoy their full, undiminished rights on the land of their ancestors, from which they have never been severed. In Solidarity,
American Muslims for Palestine | 
