By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 6 October 2025, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

There are several indications that, exactly two years after the attack against the Zionist monster on October 7, the Gaza War and the global solidarity movement are at a turning point. The White House seems to be determined to push through Trump’s plan and negotiations between Israel and Hamas seem to be about to start. At the same time, the international pro-Palestine movement has reached an unprecedented peak, and the global wave of popular uprisings has reached the Arab world (Morocco). Everything points to a radical shift in the situation. [1]

 

Trump’s plan basically consists of two parts. The first part deals with the ending of the war and the second with a “long-term solution” for Gaza. Concerning the end of the war, the plan talks about ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners and a withdrawal of Israeli troops. However, many formulations are vague and prone to be exploited by Israel. [2]

 

The second part of the plan outlines the perspective of disarming the Palestinian resistance and the colonialisation of Gaza under an American-Zionist protectorate. As we noted in the RCIT statement on Trump’s plan: “Such a plan is the exact opposite of national self-determination! The Palestinians’ future would be determined not by themselves but by a small clique of Western and Zionist figures who want to annihilate all elements of resistance against Israel – a settler state which exists only because of the oppression and expulsion of the Palestinian people from their land since 1948.” [3]

 

In its cautious response, Hamas stated that it agrees with the plan’s calls “for an end to the war on the Gaza Strip, the exchange of prisoners, the immediate entry of aid, the rejection of the occupation of the Strip, and the rejection of the displacement of our Palestinian people.” At the same time, it refused to support the American-Zionist colonialisation plan. “Furthermore, the movement renews its approval to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents, based on Palestinian national consensus and supported by Arab and Islamic backing. As for other issues included in President Trump’s proposal related to the future of the Gaza Strip and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, these are linked to a unified national position and based on relevant international laws and resolutions. They are to be discussed through an inclusive Palestinian national framework, in which Hamas will take part and contribute responsibly.” [4]

 

 

 

An extremely uneven development of the struggle as the background of the Trump plan

 

 

 

What are the reasons for Trump’s Gaza plan? Obviously, the orange clown and the whole Republican establishment are closely linked with Netanyahu – the Zionist killer-in-chief. Only a few months ago, Trump notoriously advocated the genocidal idea of expelling the whole Palestinian population and transforming Gaza into a “Rivera”, i.e. into a “big real estate site” highly profitable for American-Zionist investors.

 

In addition, the Palestinian people and its resistance have paid a horrible price for refusing to capitulate to the Israeli terrorists. Officially more than 66,000 people – in reality many more – have been killed, many are starving and the whole strip has been destroyed by the Zionist savages. Clearly, the Palestinians need a pause in order to rebuild their forces and their homes.

 

On the other hand, the White House has been forced to take into account the accelerating political contradictions of Israel’s genocidal war. Not only has the Israeli army failed to defeat the Palestinian resistance despite an endless series of bombardments and massacres in the small strip which is not larger than the city of Vienna. Nethanyahu’s escalation of military attacks against, by now, nine countries in the Middle East have provoked so much hatred in the region that even the coward Arab regimes are forced to show some form of opposition against the Zionist monster.

 

Globally, Israel has become a pariah state. An unprecedented global mass movement in solidarity with Palestine – the largest of this kind since the Vietnam movement in the last 1960s – has provoked a decisive shift in world public opinion which has forced even most of Israel’s allies in the West to distance themselves from the genocide and to diplomatically recognise the Palestinian state.

 

 

 

A new peak of the international pro-Palestine movement

 

 

 

The solidarity movement, which did already mobilise millions of people around the world in the past two years, has reached a new height in the recent period. Dockers in Italy as well as other countries have successfully blocked arms shipments to Israel. Militant unions like the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), the Confederazione Unitaria di Base and others organised a 24-hour general strike on 22 September in solidarity with Gaza. And in response to the brutal Israeli assault on the Gaza Sumud flotilla, Italy’s largest trade union federation, the CGIL, as well as the USB called another general strike on 3 October. Two million people marched on that day in all major cities of Italy. In the last few days millions of people demonstrated all over the world with a number of cities seeing their largest mobilisations ever. For example, in Amsterdam, a city with less a million citizens, 250,000 people joined a pro-Palestine march and in Barcelona it was more than 300,000!

 

This unprecedented global movements and Israel’s diplomatic isolation has left its mark on the Trump Administration. Highly unpopular at home and globally despised and ridiculed – openly by the people and said in secret by government officials – Trump does not want to accelerate America’s decline as a hegemon because of the Israeli zealots. Therefore, he is forced to make, at least temporarily, concessions to the world public opinion.

 

This is even more the case as the Arab leaders, despite all their servility and cowardice, have to accentuate their criticism of Israel, particularly since the unprecedented attack against the Hamas negotiation team in Qatar. Saudi Arabia has already signed a defence pact with Pakistan – the only Muslim state with nuclear weapons. Israel and Türkiye increasingly exchange public threats and Mostafa Bakry, an Egyptian member of parliament close to the regime, warned the Zionist state against any repetition of its attack against the Hamas delegation in Qatar: “Don't kill on our soil, or you'll find us in Tel Aviv”. [5] In short, Netanyahu’s forever war seriously undermines Washington’s plan to reorder the Middle East under Israel’s hegemony (via the so-called “Abraham Accord”) so that it can withdraw a large part of its overstretched military forces. In fact, it rather endangers the regional domination by U.S. imperialism.

 

The imperialists’ nervousness is certainly increased by the wave of youth uprisings which has spread globally in the past weeks [6] and which has now reached the Arab world with the mass protests in Morocco. [7] If this wave of uprisings continuous and shatters the capitalist Arab rulers – servile servants of the imperialist powers who have betrayed the Palestinian people again and again – there would be panic in Washington, Tel Aviv, Berlin and London.

 

 

 

The grave dangers for the Palestinian people and the way forward

 

 

 

Let’s be clear: thins are on a razor's edge. Trump and Nethanyahu will try to utilise the ceasefire negotiations to defeat and disarm the Palestinian resistance and to transform Gaza into an American-Zionist protectorate. The resistance has been weakened as it has been left alone by the coward pharaohs, kings and sultans.

 

It would be foolish to criticise Hamas for their cautious reaction to Trump’s plan. Negotiations under unfavourable conditions and a tactical retreat might be necessary. In the past two years, the Palestinian resistance fighters have waged a heroic struggle against an overwhelming enemy – a struggle which goes down in history as one of the greatest battles of the “David against Goliath” type! While tactical retreats are legitimate, support for the colonialization a la Trump’s plan would be a political crime, and the Palestinian resistance must oppose such a sell-out by any means necessary.

 

There are basically two factors which could save the Palestinian people. First, that the youth uprising spreads from Morocco to other countries – most importantly to Egypt – and weakens or even overthrows the kingdoms and dictatorships. These corrupted rulers have been the main safety net for the Zionist monster as it blocked the Arab masses which have been eager to join the struggle of the Palestinian resistance. A revival of the Arab Revolution which forces the rulers to stop their pro-Israeli policy could open a completely new situation in the region and result in a renewed offensive of the masses. It could ring the passing bell of the Zionist settler state.

 

The second decisive factor is the international pro-Palestine movement. It currently experiences not only a growth in numbers but also an escalation of the methods of struggle. With the working class going on strike and with the dockers blocking shipments to Israel, it can exert massive pressure on the Zionist state as well as on their own governments. Such pressure could help the Palestinian people to avoid a dramatic defeat at the hands of the Zionist savages.

 

The RCIT calls socialists and anti-imperialists to fight within the youth uprisings against the corrupt rulers in Morocco (and hopefully also other countries soon) for a perspective which combines their democratic struggle with the resistance against the Zionist monster.

 

The Colombian comrades of LIT-CI have raised the excellent slogan “Bread and weapons for the Palestinians!” and call for the formation of a Colombian and Latin American Brigade for the liberation of Palestine. [8] This is exactly what we need now! The masses need to transform the resistance against the Zionist monster from demonstrations to blockades, strikes and military struggle. Not a single ship or airplanes to Israel must be cleared! Corporations with links to Israel all over the world must feel the popular anger by any means necessary!

 

At the same time, authentic supporters of the Palestinian cause must fight within the global solidarity movement against those who lend any kind of support to the treacherous Trump plan, to disarming of the resistance or the reactionary-utopian “two-state” solution. We reiterate that the only solution is the destruction of the Zionist terror state and its replacement by a free and red Palestine from the River to the Sea. Such a secular and democratic Palestinian state would enable all refugees to return to their homes. At the same time, it would guarantee equal cultural and religious rights for all citizens (including the Jewish minority). It should be a workers and fellahin republic as part of a socialist federation of the Middle East. Such a state will be the result of the combination of the Palestinians’ resistance struggle with the Arab Revolution overthrowing the tyrants and/or a severe military defeat of the Zionist state. ^[9]

 

Down with the Western-Zionist attempts to defeat and colonialise Gaza! Support the resistance! For a global boycott campaign to defeat the genocide against the Palestinian people!