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2020-01-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Roundup: The 'Deal of the Century', including its key points
[Jpost] Three years in the making, the “Deal of the Century,” US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, has finally been revealed.
A map of the thing with discussion, can be seen here.
Borders: Trump’s plan features a map of what Israel’s new borders will be, should it enact the plan fully. Israel will retain 20% of the West Bank and will lose a small amount of land in the Negev near the Gaza-Egypt border. The Palestinians will have a pathway to a state in the vast majority of territory in the West Bank, while Israel will maintain control of all borders. This is the first time a US president has provided a detailed map of this kind.

Jerusalem: The Palestinians will have a capital in east Jerusalem based on northern and eastern neighborhoods that are outside the Israeli security barrier – Kafr Akab, Abu Dis and half of Shuafat. Otherwise, Trump said Jerusalem will remain undivided as Israel’s capital.

Settlements: Israel will retain the Jordan Valley and all Israeli settlements in the West Bank in the broadest definition possible, meaning not the municipal borders of each settlement but their security perimeters. This also includes 15 isolated settlements, which will be enclaves within an eventual Palestinian state. Within those settlements Israel will not be able to build for the next four years. The IDF will have access to the isolated settlements. For the settlement part of the plan to go into effect, Israel will have to take action to apply sovereignty to the settlements, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to do at the upcoming cabinet meeting on Sunday.

Security: Israel will be in control of security from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The IDF will not have to leave the West Bank. No change to Israel’s approach to Judea and Samaria would be needed.

Palestinian state: The plan does not include immediate recognition of a Palestinian state; rather, it expects a willingness on Israel’s part to create a pathway toward Palestinian statehood based on specific territory, which is about 70% of Judea and Samaria, including areas A and B and parts of Area C. The state will only come into existence in four years if the Palestinians accept the plan, if the Palestinian Authority stops paying terrorists and inciting terrorism and if Hamas and Islamic Jihad put down their weapons. In addition, the American plan calls on the Palestinians to give up corruption, respect human rights, freedom of religion and a free press, so that they don’t have a failed state. If those conditions are met, the US will recognize a Palestinian state and implement a massive economic plan to assist it.

Refugees: A limited number of Palestinian refugees and their descendants will be allowed into the Palestinian state. None will enter Israel.

Triangle: The plan leaves open the possibility that Israel will swap the area known as the “Triangle” – consisting of Kafr Kara, Arara, Baka al-Gharbiya, Umm el-Fahm and more – into the future Palestinian state. According to the plan, “the Vision contemplates the possibility, subject to agreement of the parties, that the borders of Israel will be redrawn such that the Triangle Communities become part of the State of Palestine.”
It’s a solid plan. And since it depends on the Palestinians to do all the things they have thus far adamantly refused to do, there isn’t so much as an ice cube’s chance in Hell that it will happen. Quite probably the Palestinians will continue to reject it outright.


Sputnik liveblogs the day: UK foreign minister welcomes US Middle East plan; Hezbollah grouches, Trump tweets proposed map
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Abbas calls Trump Mideast deal 'conspiracy', says 'Jerusalem is not for sale'
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 ...since it depends on the Palestinians to do all the things they have thus far adamantly refused to do, there isn’t so much as an ice cube’s chance in Hell that it will happen.

From your mouth to the ear of G*d.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-29 01:28||   2020-01-29 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 'Jerusalem is not for sale'

It wasn't a sale, you drooling loser. It was a military conquest.
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-29 07:02||   2020-01-29 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 "Carthago delenda est" - Cato

I guess they'll go for what's behind curtain number 2.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-29 07:02||   2020-01-29 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the landmarks of US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic plan that was introduced Tuesday night is that it presents an actual map – a map that shows how the US administration envisions Israel’s final boundaries. This marks the first time any American Mideast plan has come with a map.
Posted by b 2020-01-29 07:41||   2020-01-29 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 that mega-tunnel from Gaza to the West Bank looks like a pie-in-the-sky construction project

which would probably be sabotaged throughout the build process and promptly blown up by the Paleostinians
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-01-29 09:53||   2020-01-29 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Just don't remove any vehicular exhaust gasses
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-29 10:30||   2020-01-29 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7  mega-tunnel from Gaza to the West Bank looks like a pie-in-the-sky construction project
The mole people could have finished it by now if they'd done that instead of all their other digging.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-01-29 10:50||   2020-01-29 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #7: I blame goat breaks.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-29 10:51||   2020-01-29 10:51|| Front Page Top

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