The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump's Gaza plan

Arab and Muslim leaders are claiming they have been duped into giving their backing to US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan.

The plan, Middle East Eye has reported, is substantially different to the one regional leaders agreed to in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. But that is the charitable way of reading what they have done, MEE's editor-in-chief, wrote, saying, "Betrayal is another word that comes to mind".

Either way, each of the eight regional nations that backed this agreement is serving the people of Gaza a bitter and bleak reward for two years of enduring the worst military onslaught in the history of this conflict, Hearst writes, adding that they are simply offering the Palestinians a different form of occupation and a different form of siege.