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I have just read Donald Trump’s peace proposals for Gaza. It is difficult to think of anything he has uttered this year so hubristic and so divorced from the facts.

The plan amounts to a surrender by Hamas. “Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form,” the text demands. Those fighters who do not lay down their arms are to be given amnesty only if they swear peace, or safe passage abroad if they leave altogether: “Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.” The Israelis, on the other hand, are merely to withdraw to an agreed line—“the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement”—a line that will probably remain inside the Strip itself.

In effect, Hamas is told to abolish itself, while Israel is asked only to pause its rampage long enough for a “Board of Peace” to be assembled, chaired by Trump and—because there must always be comic relief in a tragedy—joined by Tony Blair.

The truth, however, is that Hamas is winning the war. Anyone who has read Machiavelli—anyone who has played chess more than casually—must be able to see this. Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023. It caused limited damage and soon withdrew. The raid was tactical, not strategic. It was designed to provoke, not to conquer.

The Israeli response was to release all its vast accumulation of racial hatred. It began a campaign of mass murder in the Gaza Strip and accelerated ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. All this was livestreamed, together with gloating boasts from the Israeli Government that there would soon be no Palestinians left to kill. Ministers spoke openly of “voluntary transfer” and “migration” while the bombs fell. They even began to talk, with straight faces, about territorial expansion into Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and other neighbours to reconstruct the supposed empire of Solomon.

It is arguable that the initial Hamas raid was set up by Israel itself to justify the massacres and conquests it already had in mind. More likely, the leaders of Hamas were brighter than their enemies. They understood that Israel’s greed and hatred would outweigh its reason, that killing civilians does not bring military victory. They also calculated that the Western propaganda machine could not survive exposure to real-time genocide.

The Israeli plans rested on three assumptions:

• That they had military superiority over their neighbours.
• That military superiority was sufficient to win a war.
• That their tight control—via bribery and blackmail—over the American Government would be sufficient to protect them from international condemnation and other actions.

Each of these assumptions has been falsified.

Iran can strike Israel at will. Short of an American invasion preceded by nuclear strikes, Iran cannot itself be defeated. Tactical superiority does not mean strategic victory.

Killing women and children in Gaza has not broken Hamas. It has strengthened it, by proving that only armed resistance offers protection.

And the United States, despite Trump’s claim that “The United States will establish a dialogue… to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence,” is no longer able to silence the world. America is a debtor empire, largely de-industrialised, rotting from within, and led by the same kind of hate-filled mediocrities who designed the Israeli response.

It seems that the Israelis walked into a trap from which there is no escape. Any acceptable peace now involves a sovereign Palestinian state in territory the Israelis have long regarded as theirs. There will be no Israeli expansion into neighbouring countries. The Israelis will be forced to compensate their surviving victims. The get-out-of-jail-free card provided by those black-and-white films of hungry people in concentration camps has been played too often. It is spent, and will not be revalidated.

The most ludicrous section of Trump’s plan is its proposal for Gaza’s governance: “This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the ‘Board of Peace,’ which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump… including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

Tony Blair! The architect of Iraq, the salesman of lies about weapons of mass destruction, the smooth-faced charlatan who delivered Britain to Washington and drenched the Middle East in blood. Blair is not a peacekeeper but a curse. He is the embodiment of the arrogant duplicity and the full-spectrum incompetence that has discredited the West in the eyes of the world.

To suggest him as a Palestinian viceroy is not merely offensive. It is absurd. Any Palestinian who co-operated with such a scheme would be branded a collaborator and murdered. Any international body chaired by Blair would be regarded as a criminal syndicate in suits. His presence in the plan proves what the plan is: a colonial fantasy authored by men who cannot imagine that their time is past.

I could condemn the Americans for the general collapse of Western power that is now gathering force. After 1600, Britain led the European powers to hegemonic control over the world. We built the trade routes and invented the financial instruments. We enforced our will by command of the seas. Our empire was not always just, but it was effective. It usually gave its subjects more than was taken from them.

In 1941, the fruits of so much glory and success were passed to the Americans. The intention was that they would take over a burden Britain could no longer carry alone. This was not defeat but calculation: better to pass the sceptre to a cousin power than to risk its loss altogether.

During the past century, the Americans have squandered it all. They fought unwinnable wars in Asia. They hollowed out their industry, debased their currency, and filled their institutions with incompetents. They believed their own propaganda. Under their leadership, the European powers are back where they were before 1600—provincial, marginal, and under threat from richer and more populous enemies.

The Gaza war is only the latest proof. America poured in arms and money, plus diplomatic cover. It shielded Israel at the United Nations. It dispatched carrier groups. The result? Failure. A hyper-power that cannot win against a militia in a coastal strip is not a hyper-power at all.

Of course, the Americans are to be condemned. So too anyone in Britain who imagined that America could be another Britain. But the real villains are the monied interest that rules both Britain and America. It was convenient for them in the 1940s to liquidate British power and transfer it to Washington. The City and Wall Street would still prosper, and America would shoulder the cost of defence.

After 1990, with the Soviet Union gone, they decided they no longer needed American and British armed support. They dismantled their hosts, importing mass immigration to dissolve national resistance. They exported industries to increase margins. They suppressed dissent with censorship and lawfare. They imagined that treaties and institutions would replace armies. They now discover, too late, that contracts are nothing without force. Their clients no longer obey. Their enemies no longer fear. They are killing the host that kept them alive

It is not too late for Britain to step back from the edge of the cliff. But this requires a reversal of every policy since 1941. We must do the following:

• Throw off the power of the monied interest. Their rule has reduced us to dependency and decline. Break their hold, or accept extinction.
• Withdraw from the American alliance and act solely in British interests. The “Special Relationship” has delivered only humiliation. To cling to it now is treason.
• Abandon Israel to whatever punishment it will receive from the new great powers. We owe Israel nothing. It has earned its fate. Its crimes are its own.

Any government that does less than this shows itself to be a gang of traitors.

Trump’s Gaza plan is not a peace. It is a monument to defeat. It demands that the victors behave as the vanquished. It presents Tony Blair, of all people, as viceroy. It assumes that America still commands, when all the world sees that it no longer does.

Israel, blinded by hate, sprang a trap and cannot escape. America, entrusted with empire in 1941, squandered it. Britain, hijacked by the monied interest, shackled itself to decline. The West, made supreme after 1600 by British greatness, is back where it began: provincial, divided, irrelevant.

Hatred and folly set the snare, and pride now drafts communiqués to disguise defeat. Trump’s Gaza plan is not a roadmap—it is the gravestone of Western hegemony, with Tony Blair’s name chiselled in as the final insult.