Immediate international endorsements, including from Indonesia, reflect the desperation felt globally, that Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign has gone too far and too long and that it must be stopped at any cost, rather than a genuine belief that the plan will lead to a real peace, let alone a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

We have reached the stage where international pressure hardly makes a dent. Not even when staunch Israel supporters like the United Kingdom, France and Canada, recognized the state of Palestine. Only the US can prevail over Israel, so many believe.  

But the killings in Gaza have continued after Trump revealed the peace plan on Sept. 30 in the White House, with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side. Who else can stop Netanyahu, if not Trump? Even if Netanyahu accepts the plan and agrees to a truce, how long would it be before he, yet again, breaks the agreement and resume the killings? No one can trust his words anymore.

More than 67,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed since Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza, which enters its third year today. Israel has even increased their suffering through its policy of a starvation blockade.

Many Palestinians growing weary and tired of the persecution have welcomed Trump’s peace plan, without reading the fine print, perhaps too hungry to read it. Hamas, the armed resistance group, has endorsed all 20 points in the plan, except for one: Give up their weapons.

One major flaw with the peace plan is that the process excludes Palestinians, the very people affected by the Israel military campaign in Gaza. They were not consulted. Instead, the plan, with widespread international support, will be forced down their throat.