{"id":152773,"date":"2020-02-03T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=152773"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T11:26:51","slug":"deal-of-the-century-americas-most-generous-proposal-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/deal-of-the-century-americas-most-generous-proposal-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deal of the Century\u2019: America\u2019s Most Generous Proposal to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner (R) and US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington DC, US on 1 October 2018.
\u00a0[Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images]<\/p><\/div>\n

29 Jan 2020 – <\/em>Israeli President Donald Trump has revealed his long-awaited peace plan aiming, as he claims, to bring a \u201cprecise technical solutions\u201d for the Palestinians and the Israeli and make the region \u201csafer\u201d and \u201cmuch more prosperous.\u201d He described his deal as a \u201cwin-win opportunity\u201d for Israel and the Palestinians. Is this true? Let\u2019s see!<\/p>\n

The premise of Trump\u2019s plan is mainly based on giving Israel as much land as possible at the expense of the Palestinians and affording full protection for a \u201cJewish state\u201d at the expense of the sovereignty, dignity and quality of Palestinian life.<\/p>\n

According to Trump, the plan guarantees a Jewish identity for the state of Israel. This means that all the non-Jewish people in Israel (20 per cent of the Israeli population), including Muslims and Christians, will automatically be given the choice to become Jews or leave. These people are the Palestinians, who did not flee their homes in spite of the ethnic cleansing of 1948.<\/p>\n

Regarding the Palestinians state, the plan ignores the international consensus on a two-state solution which gives the Palestinian a state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Trump\u2019s plan<\/a> \u201cleaves Jerusalem in its entirety in the hands of Israel with the Palestinians given only symbolic access to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Palestinian state, according to Trump\u2019s plan, would be created, after decades of useless negotiations, on separated areas, including the occupied Gaza Strip and parts of the occupied West Bank with a very \u201csymbolic\u201d part of Jerusalem as its capital. These non-contiguous areas would be connected to each other via tunnels or bridges. This state will have no control over its air, sea or crossings,\u00a0and it would not be allowed to forge deals or alliances with other countries. It would have no army and must have all the Palestinian factions \u201cdemilitarised.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Palestinians should give up \u2018fairy tales\u2019, says Kushner<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under all of these humiliating conditions, Trump said: \u201cToday\u2019s agreement is a historic opportunity for the Palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own. Palestinians will be able to seize the new future with dignity, self-sufficiency and national pride to ensure a successful Palestinian state.\u201d The New York Times<\/a><\/em> said: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s proposal strongly favours Israel, though he insisted his plan would be good for the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the Jewish settlements, a major stumbling block in negotiations, would be annexed to Israel, according to Trump. All of this merely\u00a0in exchange of an Israeli agreement on<\/a> \u201ca four-year freeze on new settlement activity while Palestinian statehood is negotiated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan, which gave a full guarantee for the Israeli security, did not mention the protection of the Palestinians\u2019 life. Take this, for example, Trump\u2019s plan described the Palestinian resistance factions as \u201cterror groups\u201d and called their resistance of the continuous Israeli aggression on the Palestinians, which is guaranteed by the international law, as \u201cmalign activities.\u201d The deal stressed that the Palestinian resistance must be demilitarised.<\/p>\n

In a show of generosity, the deal would allow a symbolic number of refugees to return to the future Palestinian state. However, Netanyahu, who endorsed the deal, made it clear as he said that the Palestinian refugees would not have a right of return to Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that there will be opposition,\u201d Ynet News<\/a><\/em> reported Netanyahu as saying. \u201cThere is always opposition. I know there will be many obstacles along the way, much criticism. But we have an old Jewish saying: \u2018If not now, when? And if not us, who?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal would see the end of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as Trump clearly said it would \u201cend the cycle of Palestinian dependence on charity,\u201d referring to the UNRWA, which he has already stopped the annual American payment for it.<\/p>\n

Israel celebrated the deal. The heads of the two main Israeli parties, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the right-wing Likud, and Benny Gantz, the head of the centre-right Ka\u1e25ol Lavan, applauded the deal and thanked Trump for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Israel has taken a giant step toward peace,\u201d Trump said at a White House<\/a>. \u201cYesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu informed me that he is willing to endorse the vision as the basis for direct negotiations \u2013 and, I will say, (opposition leader Benny Gantz) also endorsed and very strongly \u2013 with the Palestinians a historic breakthrough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump and Netanyahu\u2019s love affair around Jerusalem and Palestine\u2019s fate \u2013 Cartoon.\u00a0 [Sabaaneh\/MiddleEastMonitor]<\/p><\/div>\n

Netanyahu replied: \u201cThis is a historic day\u2026 On this day, you [Trump] became the first world leader to recognise Israel\u2019s sovereignty over areas in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] that are vital to our security and central to our heritage.\u201d He said that he is ready to start peace talks on the bases of Trump\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n

Benny Gantz<\/a> said: \u201cThe president\u2019s peace plan is a significant and historic milestone indeed. Immediately after the elections, I will work toward implementing it from within a stable, functioning Israeli government, in tandem with the other countries in our region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said: \u201cForging peace between Israelis and Palestinians may be the most difficult challenge of all. All prior administrations have tried and bitterly failed, but I was not elected to do small things or shy away from big problems.\u201d But he recognised: \u201cWe will be there every step of the way. It will work. If they do it, it will work.\u201d<\/p>\n

This deal is, in fact, unrealistic and the Palestinians, who did not accept better proposals since before the creation of the occupation state of Israel, will not accept it because they are the owners of the whole land. History, geography and politics are proofs for their ownership. However, Trump and the Israeli occupation will find some Palestinians who will either accept, remain silent or suppress any real<\/strong> action against it, but the majority of them will not accept it.<\/p>\n

Regarding the Palestinian Authority, which has been it would not accept it and would act against it, all of this is nonsense because it is only speeches and remarks for mass media, while on the ground, it has been and still fighting anyone acting against it. If it is serious in its \u201cheroic\u201d remarks we are reading in the news, at least, it should accept unity calls with the other Palestinians factions ahead of taking joint actions on the ground.<\/p>\n

READ: Palestine, Memories of 1948<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regarding the Arab nations, it is clear that they would do nothing more than encouraging it. Trump has said that Arab nations would pay for the economic side of his deal and he thanked three of the countries which dispatched representatives to celebrate the announcement of the deal in Washington. The Chief of the Arab League Ahmed Abul-Gheit commented on the deal: \u201cOur response on the deal will keep up with the PA response.\u201d It means they would accept or keep silent towards it.<\/p>\n

The UN rejected the deal and insisted that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be resolved based on the Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. \u201cThe UN remains committed to supporting Palestinians and Israelis to resolve the conflict on the basis of UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements and realising the vision of two States \u2013 Israel and Palestine \u2013 living side by side in peace and security within recognised borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines,\u201d spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said in a statement, a copy of which sent to MEMO.<\/em> But this remains nonsense as long as there is no real action to stop Israeli aggression and achieve the Palestinian gaols.<\/p>\n

The UN has been doing this along with the age of the conflict but has never done anything. It could not maintain few numbers of an international peacekeeping mission in Hebron when Netanyahu pushed them out last year. What this ageing and paralysed body will do to the US and Israel more than condemnation?<\/p>\n

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The author is <\/em>MEMO\u2019<\/em>s correspondent in the Gaza Strip.<\/em><\/p>\n

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29 Jan 2020 – Israeli President Donald Trump has revealed his long-awaited peace plan aiming, as he claims, to bring a \u201cprecise technical solutions\u201d for the Palestinians and the Israeli. Is this true? Let\u2019s see! The premise of Trump\u2019s plan is mainly based on giving Israel as much land as possible at the expense of the Palestinians and affording full protection for a \u201cJewish state\u201d at the expense of the sovereignty, dignity and quality of Palestinian life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":152775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[120,1030,87,267,1029,487,88,771,1027,427,85,109,287,1572,985,880,292,70,126,1025,886],"class_list":["post-152773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-conflict","tag-fatah","tag-gaza","tag-geopolitics","tag-hamas","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-nakba","tag-oslo-accords","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-settlers","tag-social-justice","tag-state-terrorism","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}