{"id":33816,"date":"2020-01-31T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=33816"},"modified":"2020-02-02T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:38:11","slug":"the-trump-plan-a-plan-for-annexation-not-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-trump-plan-a-plan-for-annexation-not-for-peace","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Plan &#8211; A Plan for Annexation, Not for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Trump\u2019s-\u201cPeace\u201d-Plan_-A-Unilateral-Resolution-Is-No-Solution-2.pdf\">Read the Full Paper Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the president of the United States, Donald Trump, festively presented his \u201cDeal of the Century,\u201d he repeated the following words several times: \u201cpeace plan\u201d and \u201cPalestinian state.\u201d Despite the seemingly appropriate words and the celebratory atmosphere, an examination of the <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a6\/Peace_to_Prosperity.pdf\">details of the plan<\/a> clearly reveal the degree to which it lacks both peace and a Palestinian state. A deeper assessment indicates that the plan not only neglects to advance peace, but also has the potential to severely harm prospects for a genuine peace plan for both parties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: Why Is the Plan So Bad?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unilateralism and lack of reciprocity <\/strong>\u2013 According to the US plan, Israel may already (unilaterally) annex settlements in its initial stage of implementation, prior to negotiations. A Palestinian state will be established, conditionally, per terms that will be determined unilaterally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The proposed Palestinian \u201cstate\u201d isn\u2019t really a state: <\/strong>1) It lacks territorial contiguity or potential for economic development \u2013 The proposed Palestinian state is akin to Swiss cheese, whose land is interconected via roads and tunnels that prevent any sustainable development. 2) It lacks independent boundaries \u2013 The proposed Palestinian state will be surrounded by the state of Israel on all sides. Even the crossing between Gaza and Egypt will have an Israeli presence. 3) It lacks self-sufficient security \u2013 According to the US plan, Israel will retain sweeping security control over the Palestinian state.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indefensible borders<\/strong> \u2013 Annexation of settlements that will become enclaves of sorts in a Palestinian state, will constitute an overwhelming security burden for the Israeli military.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The plan lacks a solution for Jerusalem<\/strong> \u2013 Trump\u2019s plan does not resolve one of the focal points of the conflict, leaving all of East Jerusalem and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents under Israeli sovereignty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Land swaps and population transfers <\/strong>\u2013 The US plan includes the possibility for Israel to strip hundreds of thousands of Arab citizens of their Israeli citizenship, \u201ctransferring\u201d them in a virtual manner by redrawing the Green Line so that they will live under Palestinian rule. This racist proposal will not really add much to Israel\u2019s Jewish supermajority, and will severely harm the delicate fabric of life between Jewish and Arab citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Trump\u2019s-\u201cPeace\u201d-Plan_-A-Unilateral-Resolution-Is-No-Solution-2.pdf\">Read the Full Paper Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33808\" style=\"width: 1496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33808\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33808\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1486\" height=\"2126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem.jpg 1486w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem-113x161.jpg 113w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem-330x472.jpg 330w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem-1074x1536.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Map_of_Trump_plan_DanRothem-1431x2048.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1486px) 100vw, 1486px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Courtesy of Dan Rothem)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the Full Paper Here When the president of the United States, Donald Trump, festively presented his \u201cDeal of the Century,\u201d he repeated the following words several times: \u201cpeace plan\u201d and \u201cPalestinian state.\u201d Despite the seemingly appropriate words and the celebratory atmosphere, an examination of the details of the plan clearly reveal the degree to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-trump-plan-a-plan-for-annexation-not-for-peace\" title=\"Read The Trump Plan &#8211; A Plan for Annexation, Not for Peace\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,16],"tags":[2373,2930],"class_list":["post-33816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press","category-settlement-watch","tag-the-two-state-solution","tag-trump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33830,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions\/33830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}