The Trump-Netanyahu 'peace plan' does little more than sanction what has already been the status quo for decades Opinion | SamiAlArian
Lenin once said that “there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
The Oslo agreement had called for a period of five years, where the so-called final status issues would be negotiated between the two parties under US mediation. Trump’s plan, however, has precluded this right and called for the Palestinian refugees to be settled elsewhere without even mentioning any liability on the part of the Zionist state, It offers no compensation for their suffering as other peace plans had called for in the past.
In other words, the plan denies this truncated future “state” of all the required political definition of an actual state. It is in fact nothing short of an apartheid regime, similar if not worse than South Africa’s Bantustans. To demonstrate this normalisation process, three Arab states were represented in this ceremony, namely the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman. At the same time, Saudi Arabia and Egypt released statements that effectively called on the Palestinians to accept it.
To justify its new policy of allowing Israeli colonies to be annexed, the document stated that Israel had legal and historical claims in the West Bank since Jews had lived there before the Babylonian exile.In his presentation, Trump stated — as well as his son-in-law in subsequent interviews, the chief architect of this plan, Jared Kushner — that what the Palestinians would receive in this plan is economic aid to the tune of $50 billion over ten years.
Hence, the Trump plan was nothing but an attempt at liquidating the Palestinian cause to the benefit of extremist Israeli groups to give the pretext for Netanyahu to annex part of the West Bank, expand existing settlements to win the next elections in March, and escape a possible prison sentence for his corruption charges.
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