The Gaza Peace Deal

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The Gaza Peace Deal

- A Radical Dispatch

1) What is the Gaza Peal Deal

It has finally happened. President Trump announced a 21-point plan for a Gaza peace deal.

GB News reports 26th September 2025.

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President Trump: “I think we have maybe a deal on Gaza, very close to a deal on Gaza. Hello, Peter. And it’s looking like we have a deal on Gaza. And we’ll let you know. I think it’s a deal that will get the hostages back. It’s going to be a deal that will end the war. It’s going to be a deal with peace. I think we have a deal. That’ll be number eight, Peter…”

All parties from the region, including regional Muslim-majority nations and Israel, had initially accepted the plan. Matters now reportedly rest on Hamas’ decision.

Times reports 30th September 2025:

“President Trump has said he will give Hamas ‘three or four days’ to accept a US-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza after the Israeli prime minister agreed to the proposal. Speaking a day after announcing that he was close to achieving ‘eternal peace in the Middle East’, the US president suggested on Tuesday he would ‘let Israel go and do what they have to do’ if Hamas rejected the terms.”

As of time of writing, even Hamas is looking positive.

The Spectator reports 30th September 2025:

Below are bullet-pointed fact sheet slides about the Gaza peace plan, helpfully summarised by the Jerusalem Post.

Jerusalem Post reports 28th September 2025,

The Details:

Who’s involved:

International Reaction:

Proposed elements:

What’s Next:

In early signs that Trump is drawing a line at the threatened annexation of the West Bank, the president made clear that it’s “been enough” and “it’s time to stop.”

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President Trump: “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen. Did you speak with Netanyahu about this? Yeah, but I’m not going to allow it. Whether I spoke to him or not, I did. But I’m not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank. There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now. Okay.”

2) A Regional Problem Requiring a Regional Solution

As we here at Radical Media have long advocated, the deal was made possible due to the involvement of regional Muslim-majority countries coming on board to provide security guarantees. This is a regional problem and required a regional solution.

At September’s 80th UN General Assembly, President Trump met with the leaders of Pakistan - the only Muslim-majority nuclear power, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, The Kingdom of Jordan, Türkiye and Indonesia at the sidelines.

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President Trump: “This is my most important meeting. I’ve had important meetings. I don’t want to insult anybody that we’ve met with. We’ve met with 32 meetings here. But this is the one that’s very important to me because we’re going to end something that should have probably never started.”

After this meeting the president of Indonesia used his UN speech to call for the recognition, respect, safety and security of Israel. He ended his speech with the words “Shalom”.

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Indonesian President Prabowo: “We must also recognize, we must also respect and we must also guarantee the safety and security of Israel. Only then, we can have real peace. Real peace. Thank you. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Shalom”

This regional breakthrough announcement came just as we were in Washington DC to launch the US side to our movement Accordists, where we have been advocating for precisely such a regional approach leading to the resurrection of the Abraham Accords.

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GB News host Bev Turner: “This year marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the historic Abraham Accords. Now, that was the agreements that established the relationship between Israel and several Arab states. Well, yesterday, American President Donald Trump vowed to end the war in Gaza after meeting with Arab leaders: ‘We’re here to see if we can get the hostages back and get the war over and get back to life, life in the Middle East. So this is going to be a very important meeting…we’re going to get something done because it’s gone on too long and we want it to end. And we want to get those hostages back, too’. Joining me now is founder of the Accordists, Maajid Nawaz. You might know him at home as a legendary British broadcaster.”

Maajid Nawaz: “Too kind, Bev. Too kind.”

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Bev Turner: “Thank you. Right, you are pretty much the person I go to if I want to know what’s going on in the world and that’s no exaggeration because you are so hyper vigilant to geopolitics, and you have been for many years. If I wonder what’s going on in the world I want to see what is actually happening, I go and find you on socials and your channels. So what are you doing now with the Accordists and why have you been driven to take this step?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Right, we founded www.accordists.org on the anniversary, the fifth year anniversary, of president trump’s Abraham Accords. They were signed under Trump’s first term. He didn’t get the credit that we feel he deserves for that because it was the first historic peace deal between Arabs and Israelis since the assassination of the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat in 1981. Relations have frozen since then, and along comes Trump in his first term and manages to pull out of the hat a historic peace deal between Arabs and Israelis. They’re called the Abraham Accords. Of course, October the 7th and the terrorist attacks of October the 7th happen. The Saudis were about to join the Abraham Accords and October the 7th scuppers all of the progress made in peace in the Middle East. And of course, the thing has been frozen since then. What the Accordists are about is that we feel it’s high time to revive and consolidate on the successes of the Abraham Accords and expand those accords. And the fundamental premise the Accordists believe in and that we’re based on is that this conflict is a regional conflict. It involves more than just the typical media portrayal of a bilateral conflict between the Palestinians, or even between Hamas and the Israelis. This is a regional conflict and I’m happy to unpack that but it needs a regional approach.”

Bev Turner: “So this is one of arguably the most complicated political network of allegiances and animosity across the world, of the present day, and has been for decades. And so your argument is it’s been so simplified in no small part by the media, that it’s Netanyahu versus Hamas with America on the periphery. So what do you want to come about now? A greater understanding at the very least of the situation?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Absolutely. So we commissioned a YouGov poll which is a famous polling company in the UK on this question as to what Britain believes about relations between Arabs and Israelis. Around 91% of the British public that expressed an opinion said they believe it’s important, or very important, for Arabs and Israelis to have good relations. However, 87% of the British public had not heard of the Abraham Accords. So on the one hand they want better relations, but on the other hand they don’t know of the existing vehicle to bring about those better relations. So the Accordists were founded to fill that gap, that public knowledge gap.”

Bev Turner: “This is too complex to go into. This is the problem with modern media, isn’t it? It’s fast, everything gets very simplified. But your argument being that there will not be any peace in that region until you bring in Iran, Jordan, Saudis. Why have they not all sat around and done what you’re suggesting they should do now? What is the stumbling block there?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Well, five years ago in Trump’s first term, they did, and historically, and it’s a great achievement.”

Bev Turner: “…and he didn’t get enough credit for that, did he?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Well, he didn’t get any credit for it. I was on air at the time on my former show in the UK…I remember praising Trump’s success in the Abraham Accords and facing a backlash from certain sectors of the public and also from the media establishment for actually recognising this as a success. And it was then frozen, especially after and during the Biden presidency. But what happened was that the Emirates and Morocco and Sudan, they all signed up to the Abraham Accords to make peace with Israel. It was historic and it involved not just a cessation of violence and hostilities, but diplomatic and economic exchanges. Now, we’ve got to a scenario now where unless we recognise that the problem is regional, we’re in danger of repeating the same mistake over and over again, which is the definition of madness, and that is to assume it’s a bilateral problem. So let me unpack that a bit. Iran, for example. Now, Iran’s been funding Hamas in Gaza, Iran’s been funding Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran’s been funding the Houthis in Yemen. Now that’s just one example of how this is a regional problem involving multiple countries. In addition to Iran you’ve got the Saudi Arabia element. So Saudis had their own problem with the Iranians in Yemen where they fought a bitter civil war that actually didn’t have anything to do with Israel. It was a Saudi Iranian problem fighting a proxy war in Iran (Yemen). At a fourth element, and that is the countries that already signed up to the Abraham, of course, that wanted peace with Israel, such as the Emirates, and you’ve got four different factions right there.”

Bev Turner: “So when Keir Starmer designates another European leaders and Canada and Australia, when they designate Palestine as a state, is that helpful?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Not in the context. If you understand, this is a regional problem then by definition unilateral decisions are not regional decisions and they’re a failure by definition in diplomacy. Any unilateral declaration of a recognition of Palestinian state is outside of an existing framework. Now what Trump’s meeting in the UN now just indicated, where in fact Trump called it the most important meeting at the UN, he met with the leaders of Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, Jordan (and Turkey). He met all of them together and he said, you guys together, we need to fix the problem in the Middle East, recognising it’s a regional problem. Now, we hope to, of course, pick up with the Accordist-in-Chief, President Trump himself, on his success in his first term. But our aim is to fill that public perception gap and say, listen, any peace that is negotiated, if the public aren’t behind it, it’s going to be a very fragile peace.”

Bev Turner: “What would the benefits be to the British public of peace in the Middle East?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Well, multiple. I mean, look, war causes instability, ends up affecting the economy, the uncertainty, all of that gets solved. And I think ultimately, though, of course, there’s a heavy Jewish community in the UK, Muslim community. Ultimately, I think peace in the Middle East and stability in the Middle East will make for, a lasting peace, will make for a much better world. A lot of the conflicts come down to some of the problems in the Middle East.”

Bev Turner: “Yeah. Maajid, always fascinating…Thank you so much. You’re doing great work and wish you success here in D.C.”

Maajid Nawaz: “My pleasure.”

Trump has confirmed the regional angle to this deal in subsequent speeches.

Middle East Eye reports 29th September 2025,

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President Trump: “It means the immediate end to the war itself, not just Gaza it’s the war itself. Under the plan Arab and Muslim countries have committed and in writing in many cases - but I actually would take their word for it, the people I mentioned I’d take their word for it - to demilitarize Gaza, and that’s quickly, decommission the military capabilities of Hamas and all other terror organisations, do that immediately, and we’re relying on the countries that I named and others to deal with Hamas, and I’m hearing that Hamas wants to get this done too, and that’s a good thing, and destroy all terror infrastructure including the tunnels weapons of production facilities. They have a lot of production facilities that we’re destroying. They’ll also help train local police forces in the areas that we’re discussing right now, in particular in and around Gaza. Working with the new transitional authority in Gaza, all parties will agree on a timeline for Israeli forces to withdraw in phases. They’ll be withdrawing in phases. No more shooting, hopefully, as progress is made toward achieving these goals. Arab and Muslim nations need to be allowed the chance to fulfil these commitments of dealing with Hamas. They have to deal with them because they were the one group that we have not dealt with. I haven’t dealt with them. But the Arab countries are going to and Muslim countries are going to be dealing with Hamas. And I believe they’ve already been there, I think they probably have an understanding, and they haven’t maybe mentioned that, but I would imagine they do. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have gone as far as they’ve gone. If they’re unable to do so, then Israel would have the absolute right and actually our full backing, the US full backing, Marco’s here. And a lot of our leaders are here, our great Vice President, Susie Wiles, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner. They’ve been so involved in this in this process i don’t think anybody else could have done it or even even come close, but it’s uh..we’re right there, we’re right there, first time in thousands of years, I think you can probably say, if you really look into it, if you study back..if you’re a scholar you would say thousands of years. Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas. But I hope that we’re going to have a deal for peace. And if Hamas rejects the deal, which is always possible, they’re the only one left. Everyone else has accepted it. But I have a feeling that we’re going to have a positive answer. But if not, as you know, Bibi, you’d have our full backing to do what you would have to do.”

Even Netanyahu agrees that the regional approach is something unique in this deal.

Dawn reports 29th September 2025,

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PM Netanyahu: “I believe that today we’re taking a critical step towards both ending the war in Gaza, and setting the stage for dramatically advancing peace in the Middle East and I think beyond the Middle East, very important Muslim countries. I support your plan to end the war in Gaza, which achieves our war aims. It will bring back to Israel all our hostages, dismantle Hamas’ military capabilities, and its political rule, and ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.”

By way of an example, Trump specifically thanked the world’s only Muslim-majority nuclear power Pakistan for the help they provided in securing this deal.

Dawn reports 29th September 2025,

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President Trump: “Prime Minister and the Field Marshal of Pakistan. They were with us right from the beginning. Incredible. In fact, they just put out a statement that they fully believe in this pact. It just came out just as I was walking around. They said, sir, you have a big notice from the Prime Minister of Pakistan and from the Field Marshal that they back this 100 percent.”

The role of Pakistan is something that Radical Media pointed out last June.

Radical Dispatch reports 26th June 2025:

With such strong support coming from Muslim-majority nations, Trump struck an optimistic tone, even declaring at one point that he believes Iran may end up eventually joining the Abraham Accords.

Dawn reports 29th September 2025,

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Trump: “And who knows, maybe even Iran can get in there. I hope we expect, we hope we’re going to be able to get along with Iran. I think they’re going to be open to it. I really believe that. But they could be a member. I long ago said, I’ll bet you at some point, Iran will be a member of the Accords, and little did I realise it was going to take this turn. That was some turn we did with the B2s. But I think they might very well be there, because it’s a great thing for them.”

All of this was specifically highlighted by us last April on GB News with Neil Oliver.

Radical Dispatch reports 16th April 2025:

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Maajid Nawaz for Neil Oliver show on GB News 11th April 2025: “…though it is very important that Trump does start negotiations directly with Iran. And the reason that is, if I can preempt perhaps where this conversation is going, the reason why it’s so important for the the Americans to have bilateral conversation directly with Iran, is because the conflict with Iran isn’t just a conflict between Israel and Iran, it’s a regional conflict between Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, over not just whether or not there should be a Palestinian state, because of course, the Saudis and the Iranians agree on that element of it, Netanyahu is the obstacle there, but where the Saudis and the Iranians disagree is over things like Yemen. Now, Yemen, keep in mind, is next door to Saudi Arabia, in the Arabian Peninsula. And so it’s pretty crucial, a bit like Mexico is to the US, Northern Ireland is to the UK, Yemen is pretty crucial to Saudi Arabia’s national security. It sits within the same peninsula as the greater, bigger country, Saudi Arabia. And of course, Iran via the Houthi militia has a presence in Yemen. That country’s been through a terrible civil war. Saudi and Iran on either end of that proxy war in Yemen, so…despite them agreeing on Palestine, Iran and Saudi Arabia disagree on Yemen, and they disagree quite viciously, not just on Yemen, prior to that on Syria. Of course Assad was allied with Iran, and the Saudis were backing the insurgents. That situation has come to a head now, and the Iranian-allied Putin-allied regime of Assad has had to flee, and he is now in Moscow. So you can see there are areas of contention between Saudi Arabia and Iran that in some instances are equal to the areas of contention that exist between Iran and Israel. So it’s a very complicated geopolitical mosaic, and that’s why the bilateral talks between America and Iran are important. Because if it were just an Israel-Iran dynamic, it wouldn’t actually address the real problem, which is there’s a wider regional struggle going on here. Of course, sectarianism, Sunni versus Shia Islamic factions, is an element, but that’s insofar as because they are being exacerbated on purpose by geopolitical powers. The real problem is geo-strategic. Of course, as is always the case, people that play divide and conquer games, they will... put salt into the wounds to exacerbate existing sectarian differences, but only to achieve their political aims. So the sectarian issue is relevant, but actually what’s more relevant is things like Red Sea ports, which of course the Houthis have been very, very sort of jealous over guarding, and preventing access to British and other shipping, due to the Israel conflict, but Red Sea ports and other such strategic access to both ports and water supply, which is a crucial issue in the Middle East, and then on top of that of course land such as Gaza and on a broader level Palestine, all of these become issues that become crucial to resolve. And I’ll say lastly that the bilateral conversations have some precedent, Neil. If you remember, the US via Qatar had bilateral conversations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, leading to a similar exclusionary process for..Karzai’s old Afghanistan regime that wasn’t involved in those bilateral talks and it in the end led to the collapse of Karzai’s regime and to the coming to power of the Taliban, and I think these talks are headed in a direction where normalisation with Iran is definitely on the table.”

Israeli analysts have also recently been taking the same view.

Israel Hayom reports 28th August 2025:

“Almost all of Netanyahu’s consultations during the 23 months of war have been with these four. Who will he turn to now? Of all the departures, Dermer’s is by far the most consequential. He holds all the most critical security portfolios: Iran, Syria, Gaza, and the hostages. By January 1 he is supposed to complete two key tasks he vowed not to leave unfinished: ending the war and expanding the Abraham Accords.”

3) Unilateral Declarations for a Regional Problem

Once a regional framework for the Middle East conflict is understood, it becomes clear why treating this issue as a bilateral Israeli / Palestinian problem is absurd, and why approaching matters unilaterally is even worse.

We Accordists were recently hosted again on GB News with Martin Daubney about PM Starmer’s gesture of a unilateral declaration for a Palestinian state.

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Maajid Nawaz on GB News for Nigel Farage’s show with Martin Daubney: “Now, the backlash following the government’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine continues to rumble on, and the move has been met by criticism by some Jewish groups for the campaign against anti-Semitism, describing the decision as Sir Keir Starmer’s Neville Chamberlain moment. Now, Hamas has declared victory, describing the move as ‘justice of our cause’. While the Prime Minister said this move doesn’t reward the terrorist organisation, and will help ostracise Hamas and bring about a two-state solution. Well, I’m delighted to be joined in the studio by the founder of The Accordists, and that’s Maajid Nawaz. Maajid, a pleasure once again to have your company twice in one week. I feel blessed.”

Maajid Nawaz: “Thank you, Martin.”

Martin Daubney: “Tell us. There’s a very split opinion on this one, of course. Sir Keir Starmer said it’s the correct thing to do. It’s the only hope of peace, of a two-state solution. Others say it’s a total betrayal of Israel and it’s rewarding terrorism. Where do you stand?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Look, first of all, I have every sympathy for all sides suffering in this war, but we at the Accordists believe that this is a regional problem. On your show, the first time we appeared together to launch the Accordists, we made that very clear. This is a regional problem and therefore can only be solved via a regional solution. Unilateral declarations of recognition of a Palestinian state undermine that regional negotiation. Because by definition, unilateral declarations are a failure in diplomacy. By definition, there’s no way around that. They’re a failure in diplomacy. So, of course, the Israelis wouldn’t recognise it. And we can’t have a solution without all parties, including the Israelis, but including the Gulf Arabs, including the Palestinian Authority, at the table. Not by excluding any one party, and as difficult as that may be, and for as long as this terrible war has dragged on, until we get all parties around the table by the existing framework, that exists already, Trump brought it in in his first term, the Abraham Accords, that’s what we have to revive, and that’s the way forward on this issue. Because all parties have at one point consented to that framework, and it’s only October 7th that scuppered the progress on that.”

Martin Daubney: “So it’s the Keir Starmer wading in, Australia wading in, France and Spain and others. You’re saying this tilts the balance. It meddles. They should keep their noses out.”

Maajid Nawaz: “Well, it shouldn’t just upset the Israelis, what Keir Starmer’s done. It should also upset Arabs who want peace, the Arab populations who are tired of war. It should upset the Palestinian Authority. Of course, they want peace too. The Palestinian Authority, who aren’t Hamas. Husam Zumlot, their ambassador to London, of course, he’s happy with the decision, but they also recognise Hamas are not their friends. So all parties that have an interest in peace and not war, including those on the Israeli side who may be supporting further war, all parties who support peace over that, should be upset by unilateral declarations because they are, in the end, a failure in diplomacy.”

Martin Daubney: “What about the notion that this complicates the tangled negotiations of getting those hostages out? It just complicates matters because Hamas were celebrating on the streets in Gaza. They were seeing this as a clear victory, of giving them legitimacy.”

Maajid Nawaz: “Of course, it complicates those matters. It is also a gesture, and one suspects Keir Starmer’s making this gesture because he’s already lost his base on this issue. So we know what’s happening with the Corbynista side of the Labour Party. We know what’s happening with the spat between Corbyn and Zara Sultana. But that voter base, as our YouGov poll that Accordists, which is available at Accordists.org, You can go and see that, as our YouGov poll demonstrated: the 27% for whom voting on the Gaza issue - is still only fourth place, mind you, but still, that’s the highest slot it got, fourth place for 27% who voted green in 2024. We at accordists.org suspect they’re now going to vote for the left-wing factions who’ve broken away from Labour, but Keir Starmer hasn’t fixed that problem with this gesture. All he’s done is upset a key side to the negotiation, and that’s, of course, the Israeli side. And without all parties involved, we become, unfortunately, further away from a solution, not closer to it.”

Martin Daubney: “We’ve seen Israel today threatening to expel French diplomats from their country over this. Do you think that could happen to Britain? Could this massively backfire on Sir Keir Starmer?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Well, it will backfire on Keir Starmer. I hope it doesn’t backfire on Britain. And I hope everybody around the world recognises that Keir Starmer is a lame duck prime minister, who the people no longer want in power, if they ever did. His victory was the most marginal victory for a long, long time. All across the country, though he has an overwhelming majority in Parliament, he won by razor thin margins in each seat. We only need to look at Wes Streeting’s seat in Ilford, the key Secretary of State there.”

Martin Daubney: “The Gaza seat?”

Maajid Nawaz: “Of course it is. And, you know, there was an independent Palestinian candidate who came within a handful of votes to Wes Streeting. So it’s a razor thin margin that he has in every seat. So Keir Starmer, of course, this will backfire on him, but that’s because Britain itself doesn’t agree with Keir Starmer on this issue.”

Martin Daubney: “Superb stuff, and thank you for coming in. As ever, that’s Majid Nawaz, of course, the legendary broadcaster now and the founder of Accordists, and accordist.org is where you can find all your stuff. Thank you for coming in.”

Maajid Nawaz: “Thank you Martin.”

Martin Daubney: “Once again, a pleasure.”

4) The Gaza Peace Plan is Not Perfect

Of course, there are some problems with Trump’s plan. Axios reports that Netanyahu - who went to see Trump at the White House on the first Monday after the UN General Assembly in New York - significantly altered the plan to his benefit, after the eight Muslim-majority countries had already agreed to it, hence infuriating them.

But none of this will ultimately stop the plan. We at Radical Media expect any such issues to be thoroughly ironed out by diplomats on all sides.

The plan will stick and the war in Gaza will end.

A much more damaging issue perhaps, because it strikes to the heart of the plan’s credibility, is that Trump has agreed to allow former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair…

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