World-wide aversion to and isolation of Israel; heightened fear among Arab rulers due to Israel Defense Forces' incompetent military campaign; and global solidarity movement with Palestinians especially that taking place in US and its universities. These are the three factors that are forcing the US to put pressure on Israel, its watchdog in the region, to agree to a "ceasefire" and "postwar plan".

But US' "postwar plan" (a.k.a. "the day after" plan) completely runs counter to the aspiration of Palestinians and their solidarity movements.

On 19 May, Biden spoke at the graduating class of Morehouse College which is a college Martin Luther King went.. Toward the students who were holding Palestinian flag and turning their backs on him, he said, "a two-state solution — the only solution." So what is his "two-state solution"?

The New York Times had disclosed "postwar planning" by the US State Department:

"[T]he Arab-Israeli alliance, working with the United States ... After between seven and 10 years, the alliance would allow Gazans to vote on whether to be absorbed into a united Palestinian administration that would govern in both Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank ... In the meantime, the plan suggests, the Israeli military could continue to operate inside Gaza."(3 May)

What it really means is that it will sow division within Palestinians that would lead to civil war; will create a new "Palestinian administration" that is to be subordinated to the interests of the US, Israel and Arab regimes; and will allow Arab regimes to "normalize" their relationship with Israel in return for their approval of Israeli occupation.

It would be up to not the Palestinians themselves, but to the US, Israel, dictator Sisi and Saudi Arabia, to decide the fate, the party and the government of the Palestinians - an outright denial of national self-determination.

The US has no intention to station their own troops in postwar Gaza to take control of such a new situation. Although it has mobilized a large number of forces across the Middle East in order to defend Israel from Iran's missile attack, it does not want to send ground troops to Gaza.

However, the US army has already built a floating pier on the coast of Gaza. The pier has nothing to do with "humanitarian aid". Had the US forced Israel - by sincerely cutting its aid to Israel - to stop Rafah invasion and to re-open the border crossings, humanitarian aid would have reached Gaza.

Instead, the US had built on the Gazan coast a floating pier which can be used as a base for whatever purpose it wants. At the same time, the US had allowed Israel to keep the border crossings closed.

Denial of self-determination

The US wants to draw up a postwar plan through negotiation but due to Israel's non-cooperation, it has been unable to do so.

Netanyahu is against the US plan. Netanyahu declares that he is “not ready to replace Hamastan with Fatahstan” - where the former means the land ruled by Hamas and the latter by Fatah, the leading force within the Palestine Authority.

The US postwar plan also faces opposition from the Palestinian resistance movement. Last December, every Palestinian resistance group announced a joint statement against it. The statement expressed their will to national self-determination and to elect their own government for the independent Palestinian state.

The Palestinians, even under the harsh condition of famine, are waging the struggle for peace and independence, and these will not be given to them neither by the US and its allies, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid nor Sisi and Saudi Arabia.

Neither can it come from the Iranian government whose true interest lies - not in its struggle against the US - but rather in achieving a nuclear deal with the US.

The solution for Palestinians will neither be handed down by "independent" international organisations. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, balanced his position by seeking an arrest warrant against not only Netanyahu but also Hamas leader Sinwar.

The only reliable and effective forces for alliance that stand on the side of Palestinian resistance are the global solidarity movement with the Palestinians as well as the Arab people. The solidarity movement should be strengthened against Israel's brutal and prolonged war.