John Mearsheimer on Trump’s Flawed Plan for Gaza

by | Oct 1, 2025 | News | 0 comments

On 30 September 2025, I was on The Spectator’s podcast with Freddy Gray talking about President Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza genocide. It is a deeply flawed plan, which Benjamin Netanyahu played a key role in crafting and which was presented to Hamas as a fait accompli. As I discuss in the podcast, Hamas would be foolish in the extreme to accept this one-sided plan, which makes them more vulnerable than ever to Israeli aggression, and does hardly anything to facilitate Palestinian self-determination.

Reprinted from John’s Substack.

John J. Mearsheimer, PhD, is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. More recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing the article The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was subsequently published as a book.

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