Why the Gaza plan is doomed to fail
Analysts have dissected U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan and rightly focused on the doubtful prospect that Hamas will disarm as the most obvious reason it could fail. But perhaps a more serious danger lies in what the plan leaves unaddressed: Palestinian education.The plan calls for the “deradicalization” of Gaza and for changing Palestinian “mindsets and narratives,” but it doesn’t explicitly mandate reform of schools, curricula or teacher training. That is a glaring omission.Trump—or, more likely, the plan’s principal architect, his son-in-law and adviser on the Middle East Jared Kushner—understood this in the first term. That administration’s 2020 “Peace to Prosperity” plan explicitly called for reform of Palestinian education. Eliminating incitement, the glorification of terrorism and the denial of Israel’s right to exist from Palestinian schools was part of the peace framework. More importantly, reform of curricula and textbooks was made a condition for Palestinian statehood.That requirement reflected a…
The article argues that any Gaza peace plan, including the current U.S. proposal, is "doomed to fail" if it does not explicitly address Palestinian education reform. While the Trump administration's 2020 "Peace to Prosperity" plan conditioned Palestinian statehood on educational reform, the current plan only vaguely calls for "deradicalization." The author contends that Palestinian schools, including those funded by international donors and operated by UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority (PA), continue to promote antisemitism, glorify violence and terrorism, and erase Israel from maps. This includes recent examples where the October 7 massacre was incorporated into lessons, with one third-grade math assignment celebrating the number of "jihad fighters" entering Israeli settlements. The article emphasizes that rebuilding Gaza must involve more than just physical reconstruction; it requires a fundamental change in curriculum and teaching to prevent the ideology that fueled October 7 from being passed on to future generations. Educational reform, including teaching fundamental truths about Jewish rights and Israel's existence, should be a condition for international funding and an integral part of any political settlement, extending to both Gaza and the PA educational system.
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