{"id":153029,"date":"2020-02-10T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=153029"},"modified":"2020-02-17T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:54:59","slug":"trump-and-netanyahu-dictate-terms-of-palestinian-surrender-to-israel-and-call-it-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/trump-and-netanyahu-dictate-terms-of-palestinian-surrender-to-israel-and-call-it-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender to Israel and Call It Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_153032\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153032\" class=\"wp-image-153032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/adelsons-trump-palisra-deal.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheldon Adelson, a Republican and Likud megadonor who helped elect both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, watched the two men announce a plan that permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank at the White House on Tuesday 28 Jan 2020.<br \/>Photo: Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>29 Jan 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but no Palestinian leader, President Donald Trump unveiled \u201ca vision for peace\u201d in the Middle East on Tuesday which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank immediately, offering the Palestinians only local control\u00a0in isolated <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamalDajani\/status\/1222262674521653249\" >Bantustans<\/a> surrounded by Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>As many Israeli political observers noted, the timing of the announcement, just hours after Netanyahu was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/elections\/.premium-indictments-against-netanyahu-officially-filed-in-court-1.8464667\" >indicted on corruption charges<\/a> in Jerusalem, looked like an effort to boost the prime minister\u2019s bid to win reelection in March, his best hope for avoiding prison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A US President facing impeachment and an Israeli Prime Minister indicted for corruption, leading an interim minority government, are about to announce a plan to solve the conflict with the Palestinians, without any Palestinian present. Unbelievable farce.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anshel Pfeffer \u05d0\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dc \u05e4\u05e4\u05e8 (@AnshelPfeffer) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnshelPfeffer\/status\/1222204914727780352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The release of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Peace-to-Prosperity-0120.pdf\" >the 180-page plan<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which was drafted by aides to Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/06\/21\/jared-kushners-pursuit-middle-east-peace-looks-lot-like-total-surrender-israel\/\" >an old family friend of Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 was staged as a celebration, and acted as a dual campaign rally, with the American president and the Israeli prime minister boasting of all they had achieved for Israel to a room filled with far-right supporters of the Jewish state, including business magnate Sheldon Adelson, the Republican and Likud megadonor who spent millions of dollars to elect both leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who intervened in a previous Israeli election campaign on Netanyahu\u2019s behalf \u2014 by recognizing Israel\u2019s annexation of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/03\/21\/trump-gives-netanyahu-part-syria-boost-israeli-leaders-flagging-reelection-campaign\/\" >the Golan Heights<\/a> last year \u2014 gave the embattled prime minister a podium at the White House to detail conditions imposed on the Palestinians which sounded like terms of surrender.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, Netanyahu said, the Palestinians would be required to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, cede the entire Jordan Valley, disarm Hamas, and abandon hope for both the return of refugees who fled homes in what is now Israel and for a capital in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RmKVVWh9F2\" >pic.twitter.com\/RmKVVWh9F2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 (@netanyahu) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netanyahu\/status\/1222248432221507584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour peace plan offers the Palestinians a pathway to a future state,\u201d Netanyahu told Trump. \u201cI know that it may take them a very long time to reach the end of that path; it may even take them a very long time to get to the beginning of that path,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5: \u05de\u05d5\u05db\u05df \u05dc\u05e0\u05d4\u05dc \u05de\u05e9\u05d0 \u05d5\u05de\u05ea\u05df \u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05e4\u05dc\u05e1\u05d8\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05e2\u05dc \u05d1\u05e1\u05d9\u05e1 \u05ea\u05d5\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05ea \u05d8\u05e8\u05d0\u05de\u05e4. \u05d4\u05e6\u05d8\u05e8\u05e4\u05d5 \u05dc\u05de\u05e9\u05d3\u05e8 \u05d4\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05d7\u05d3 &gt; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uNITb9vblN\" >https:\/\/t.co\/uNITb9vblN<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JR6LzrKTz8\" >pic.twitter.com\/JR6LzrKTz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u05d4\u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea &#8211; N12 (@N12News) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N12News\/status\/1222216929630478336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In fact, as Crisis Group analyst <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TareqBaconi\/status\/1222227402165817344\" >Tareq Baconi observed<\/a>, \u201cThe plan sets out parameters that are impossible for Palestinians to accept, and effectively provides Israel with a blueprint to sustain the one-state reality that exists on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment was echoed by Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of B\u2019Tselem, an Israeli rights group that monitors the occupation. \u201cWhat the Palestinians are being \u2018offered\u2019 now is not rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts,\u201d El-Ad<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HagaiElAd\/status\/1222218221543137282\" > wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe reality on the ground is already one of full Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is a reality of one, inherently undemocratic, state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan was rejected by Palestinian rights activists in the region and abroad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Netanyahu logic: If Palestinians agree to land theft, annexation, no refugee return, subjugation and no means of defense, Israel will negotiate with us.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diana Buttu (@dianabuttu) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dianabuttu\/status\/1222215865682165760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They want to put us in permanent, high-tech cages and call it peace. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DealOfTheCentury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#DealOfTheCentury<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ApartheidDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#ApartheidDeal<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Palestine<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PalestinianFreedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#PalestinianFreedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Noura Erakat (@4noura) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4noura\/status\/1222208329981800448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN  interviews Palestinian human rights attorney on the Trump plan. &quot;This is not a deal, this is a plan to consolidate Israel&#39;s colonial takings.&quot; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4noura?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@4noura<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFfNuKnH08\" >https:\/\/t.co\/dFfNuKnH08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mairav Zonszein \u05de\u05e8\u05d1 \u05d6\u05d5\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9\u05df (@MairavZ) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MairavZ\/status\/1222574802302656512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The US is a colonial state trying to broker a &quot;solution&quot; which favors another settler-colonial state. The only message is, commit enough massacres, create enough judicial procedures, create enough diplomatic jargon, and all is allowed. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Palestine<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#TrumpDeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mariam Barghouti \u0645\u0631\u064a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u063a\u0648\u062b\u064a (@MariamBarghouti) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariamBarghouti\/status\/1222200159788027904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Palestinian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Palestinian<\/a> refugees in Lebanon&#39;s Ein El-Helweh camp who have been deprived of a homeland for years protest and say NO to the so-called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DealOfTheCentury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#DealOfTheCentury<\/a> and tell Trump: Our fate is not for you to decide. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7We93iIRA\" >pic.twitter.com\/Y7We93iIRA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Not Numbers (@WeAreNotNumbers) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreNotNumbers\/status\/1222242722473545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn impeached and bigoted President works in tandem with a criminally indicted and racist Prime Minister to perpetuate the reality of apartheid and subjugation,\u201d Jamil Dakwar, a Palestinian American who was born in Haifa and now leads the ACLU\u2019s human rights program, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdakwar\/status\/1222288015902617600\" >wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cPalestinians will not be coerced to give up their human rights to live as free and equal human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErakatSaeb\/status\/1222290734096797697\" >described the plan<\/a> delivered by Kushner to Trump as \u201c100 percent the ideas I personally heard many times from Netanyahu and his negotiators. I can assure you that the American so-called peace team have only copied and pasted Netanyahu\u2019s and the settlers\u2019 councils plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid accusations that his plan was largely based on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/09\/11\/netanyahu-hints-trump-peace-plan-will-allow-israel-annex-key-west-bank-territory\/\" >concepts and details<\/a> dictated by Netanyahu, Kushner cast himself as an independent expert on the conflict in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rEKThu4Mk8M?t=413\" >an interview<\/a> with Sky News Arabia on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ve been studying this now for three years,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rEKThu4Mk8M?t=413\" >he told Sky News Arabia<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ve read 25 books on the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least one of those books appears to have been written by Netanyahu, however. As Dylan Williams of the liberal, pro-Israel group J Street pointed out, Kushner\u2019s plan appeared at one point to borrow language from one of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s books.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/dylanotes\/status\/1222325823488897024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1222325823488897024&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2020%2F01%2F28%2Ftrump-netanyahu-dictate-terms-palestinian-surrender-israel-call-peace%2F%3Futm_source%3DThe%2BIntercept%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3D830646b9f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_e00a5122d3-830646b9f4-124136213<\/p>\n<p>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1222516374427316224\" >a subsequent interview<\/a>, Kushner even seemed unaware of the length of the proposal released by his team, referring to the 181-page document as \u201can over 80-page proposal.\u201d He appeared to be echoing an error made by Trump during <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-netanyahu-state-israel-joint-statements\/\" >his prepared remarks<\/a> the White House ceremony when he said, \u201cour plan is 80 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Ramallah, at a rare gathering of leaders of the major Palestinian factions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the proposal was not \u201cthe deal of the century,\u201d as Trump and the Israelis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ofirgendelman\/status\/1222225922293747714\" >described it<\/a>, but \u201cthe slap of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump, Jerusalem is not for sale. Our rights are not for sale. Your conspiracy deal will not pass,\u201d Abbas said, in comments <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/.premium-palestinian-factions-to-unite-in-opposition-to-trump-peace-plan-1.8465841\" >reported by<\/a> the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump said that Palestinians could eventually have a capital in Jerusalem, the plan suggested that this would be outside of the city, in a neighborhood close to, but not in the city, as Telegraph correspondent Raf Sanchez pointed out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IMPORTANT: the detail plan of the plan confirms that Palestinians will not get any part of Jerusalem inside the security barrier. <\/p>\n<p>That means they get a few far-flung eastern neighbourhoods as their capital but none of the Old City or areas where most East Jerusalemites live. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZL6AJVJ565\" >pic.twitter.com\/ZL6AJVJ565<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rafsanchez\/status\/1222225141276520448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Within hours of the plan\u2019s release, Netanyahu <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MairavZ\/status\/1222238396438863872\" >said<\/a> that his government would move on Sunday to formally annex the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.btselem.org\/settlements\/statistics\" >131 Jewish-only settlements<\/a> in the occupied West Bank, all of which are illegal under international law, as well as the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea. The plan\u2019s map of the newly expanded Greater Israel, and the fragmented Palestinian enclaves, were shared on Twitter by Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0645\u0627 \u0642\u062f \u062a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u062f\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0628\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0628\u0639\u0627\u0635\u0645\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0623\u062c\u0632\u0627\u0621 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a\u0629. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CFuYwwjSso\" >pic.twitter.com\/CFuYwwjSso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1222224521958187009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-netanyahu-state-israel-joint-statements\/\" >his remarks<\/a>, Trump said that Netanyahu had \u201cauthorized the release of a conceptual map\u201d showing the contours of the land to be annexed, and their two governments would soon form a joint committee \u201cto convert the conceptual map into a more detailed and calibrated rendering so that recognition can be immediately achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because the Israeli settlement blocs, which are home to more than 400,000 settlers, are stitched together with a network of roads and checkpoints that restrict the freedom of movement of Palestinians, the territory Trump said his plan \u201callocated\u201d for a future Palestinian state would exist only as a series of enclaves inside Israel.<\/p>\n<p>As Ben Silverstein of J Street, a liberal\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/12\/14\/j-street-israel-jeremy-ben-ami\/\" >pro-Israel lobbying group<\/a> in Washington, explained, the \u201cconceptual map\u201d included in the plan gave an \u201cappearance of contiguity\u201d that facts on the ground would make impossible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This map is verrrrry generously shaded to give appearance of contiguity. <\/p>\n<p>100% final map will appear closer to archipelago map on the right. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pLcaWak4R2\" >pic.twitter.com\/pLcaWak4R2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Silverstein | xlast.org (@bensilverstein) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bensilverstein\/status\/1222226809158295553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yousef Munayyer, who directs the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, noted on Twitter that the reality would look a lot more like what the French illustrator Julien Bousac <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/07\/the-west-bank-archipelago\/\" >sketched out more than a decade ago<\/a> for Le Monde Diplomatique to show the impossibility of a functioning state compromised of enclaves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The West Bank Archipelago <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FBIeOKmnUd\" >pic.twitter.com\/FBIeOKmnUd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YousefMunayyer\/status\/1222208167171543045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Seidemann, director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, pointed out that previous administrations had privately accepted the erosion of Palestinian hopes for a contiguous state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perspective, for those who think this started with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This is a slide\/map, I presented to a senior official in the Obama White House. His chilling response: you\u2019re probably right, but the sun still will rise, birds sing, and life will go on.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? Look familiar? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mJ2ZQPzgef\" >pic.twitter.com\/mJ2ZQPzgef<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Seidemann (@DanielSeidemann) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielSeidemann\/status\/1222293951014670347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shibley Telhami, a scholar of the region at the University of Maryland, pointed to another disturbing detail of the plan: a provision to further ethnically cleanse Israel by revoking the citizenship of Palestinians living in one section of the state, and forcing that region to merge with those parts of the West Bank not annexed by Israel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One shocking feature of Trump&#39;s &quot;American&quot; plan is that Israel would carve out Israeli-Arab towns in the &quot;Triangle&quot; region, strip them of Israeli citizenship, and place them under Palestinian jurisdiction &#8212; something majorities oppose. Un-American Plan. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eQNFzRLvdG\" >https:\/\/t.co\/eQNFzRLvdG<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bn143hVSRr\" >pic.twitter.com\/bn143hVSRr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShibleyTelhami\/status\/1222252241710657538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s plan was denounced by both Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, among the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination to challenge Trump for the presidency. While Sanders called the plan \u201cunacceptable,\u201d Warren went further, promising to \u201coppose unilateral annexation in any form \u2014 and reverse any policy that supports it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&#39;s &quot;peace plan&quot; is a rubber stamp for annexation and offers no chance for a real Palestinian state. Releasing a plan without negotiating with Palestinians isn&#39;t diplomacy, it&#39;s a sham. I will oppose unilateral annexation in any form\u2014and reverse any policy that supports it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1222235684708196353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It must end the Israeli occupation and enable Palestinian self-determination in an independent state of their own alongside a secure Israel. Trump&#39;s so-called &#39;peace deal&#39; doesn&#39;t come close, and will only perpetuate the conflict. It is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1222241940265218049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden, a staunch defender of Netanyahu who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/joe-bidens-alarming-record-on-israel\/\" >reportedly<\/a> frustrated Obama administration efforts to confront him over the occupation, did not immediately comment on the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Politico <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/01\/28\/pac-heart-attack-ad-bernie-sanders-108239\" >reported<\/a> on Tuesday that the Democratic Majority for Israel, a pro-Israel super PAC led by the Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, plans to run an attack ad in Iowa this week \u201cthat raises concerns about Bernie Sanders\u2019 2019 heart attack and calls him too liberal to beat President Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/04\/09\/aipac-targets-bernie-sanders-facebook-ads-focused-key-democratic-primary-states\/\" >I reported<\/a> earlier this year, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the conservative pro-Israel lobbying group known as AIPAC, paid for a pressure campaign on Facebook targeting Sanders, who would be the first Jewish president of the United States \u2014 one who has expressed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/11\/01\/bernie-sanders-palestine-aid-hamas\/\" >concern for Palestinian rights<\/a> and described Netanyahu as \u201ca racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Robert-Mackey.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-93358 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Robert-Mackey-e1580632833822.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/robertmackey\/\" >Robert Mackey<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:robert.mackey@theintercept.com\">robert.mackey@\u200btheintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/01\/28\/trump-netanyahu-dictate-terms-palestinian-surrender-israel-call-peace\/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=830646b9f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-830646b9f4-124136213\" >Go to Original \u2013 theintercept.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Jan 2020 &#8211; Donald Trump unveiled \u201ca vision for peace,\u201d which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank, offering the Palestinians only limited autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":116177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,54],"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-153029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-middle-east-north-africa","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\/153029","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=153029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}