{"id":55377,"date":"2025-10-01T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55377"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:26:45","slug":"trumps-flawed-plan-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/trumps-flawed-plan-for-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Trump&#8217;s Flawed Plan for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 September 2025, I was on <em>The Spectator\u2019s <\/em>podcast with Freddy Gray talking about President Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/63u6Si4NLDk?si=o5pO7MiZDlZiSQkj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/trumps-flawed-plan-for-gaza\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 September 2025, I was on The Spectator\u2019s podcast with Freddy Gray talking about President Trump\u2019s 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-55377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55383,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377\/revisions\/55383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55377"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}