Statement on Trump’s Board of Peace 15-Point Plan

How can there be a meaningful discussion of peace when justice and accountability are absent? How can negotiations be taken seriously when the Palestinian people who have endured decades of dispossession, occupation, and terrorism are excluded? 

That is precisely what Trump’s 15-point so-called Peace Plan represents. 

This is not a peace plan. It is a framework for preserving the conditions that have made peace impossible. 

The plan contains no meaningful mechanism for holding Israel accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It says nothing about the Palestinian people’s right of return or their right to defend themselves. These are not privileges to be granted or withheld; they are fundamental rights recognized under international law. 

The question of disarmament must also be confronted honestly. It is Israel, not the occupied Palestinian people, that possesses a vastly superior military. Israel continues to exercise military control over the lives of Palestinians, and Israeli officials continue to speak openly about killing those who live in Gaza and annexing it. 

Palestinians must have the ability to protect their people, communities, and land from occupation, dispossession, and ongoing violence. 

The plan is overwhelmingly focused on Gaza while offering no substantive framework for addressing the apartheid regime, settlement expansion, or Palestinian rights. There is no concrete framework for ending the apartheid regime and resolving the broader question of Palestinian self-determination, right to self-defense and the right to return. 

Even setting aside its glaring failures on justice and accountability, Israel’s violations of previous agreements must be discussed. Since October 2025, Israel has repeatedly violated the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Israel has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians, most of them children, women, and elderly people, and wounding more than 4,000 others.  

There can be no roadmap to peace without Palestinian participation. The issues of justice, accountability, dismantling the apartheid regime and disarming its military, and guaranteeing Palestinian safety and security. 

The Trump plan is merely a blueprint for managing, and ultimately preserving, the very conditions that have made peace impossible.