The historic ceasefire is presented as victory, but what is announced seems like another chapter in the same conflict
The scenario set up in the Knesset this Monday (13) was that of a grand spectacle, meticulously rehearsed to seal a narrative of victory. Donald Trump, from the pulpit of the Israeli parliament, declared “the end of the war” and a “new dawn” for what he insists on calling “West Asia”. But who exactly is this sun rising for? Judging by the location, the applause and the speeches, this is a dawn that illuminates only one side of the wall.
Trump’s speech, although packed with rhetoric of peace and a “brighter future for all”, was, in essence, a victory monologue. There was talk of disarming Hamas, demilitarizing Gaza and ensuring that Israel’s security “is not harmed in any way.” These are terms of surrender, not peace. They are the conditions imposed by a nuclear power and its global patron on a beleaguered people. At no point was anyone heard of a Palestinian State, an end to the occupation, the right of return or the sovereignty of a people who have been fighting for their land for decades.
The prisoner exchange, presented as a magnanimous gesture, reveals the brutal asymmetry of the conflict: 20 Israeli hostages for 1,966 Palestinian prisoners. Thousands of Palestinians who languish in Israeli prisons, many without a fair trial, are transformed into bargaining chips for a peace that does not include them. Netanyahu and Lapid’s “unceasing gratitude” to Trump is not just diplomacy; it is the recognition that this plan was not negotiated, but rather drawn up in Washington and handed over to Jerusalem like a trophy.
More alarming is the arrogance with which Trump celebrates the destabilization of regional sovereignty. When boasting that “Iran’s top terrorists, including commanders and nuclear scientists, have been wiped out,” the American president is not talking about diplomacy, but about a policy of assassinations that violates international law. The “dagger pointed at Israel” that he claims to have destroyed was, for many, the simple self-defense capacity of nations that refuse to bow to US-Israeli hegemony in the region.
Trump’s so-called “new Middle East” sounds dangerously like old colonialism in a new guise. A Middle East where Israel’s security is the only pillar of stability and where any resistance is labeled as “forces of chaos and ruin”. The participation of Arab countries, pressing for the release of the hostages, is praised not as an act of sovereignty, but as submission to the script written by the White House.
The jarring footnote amid the celebration is reality: Hamas has already rejected the disarmament proposal. It’s a predictable refusal. Asking a resistance movement to hand over its weapons without any guarantee of a state, rights or dignity is asking for total capitulation.
The long and painful nightmare, contrary to what Trump proclaims, is not over for the Palestinians. What was announced in the Knesset was not peace, but the formalization of deeper control. It was the celebration of an order in which the freedom of one people is the price paid for the security of another. This “new dawn” may be golden for Israel, but for Palestine, it feels like just another day under the same relentless shadow.
With information from The Cradle*
Source: https://www.ocafezinho.com/2025/10/14/o-amanhecer-de-trump-nao-ilumina-gaza/
