Israel is heading to new elections after Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition.
A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace on May 29, 2019, shows King Abdullah II meeting with White House adviser Jared Kushner in the capital, Amman, during Kushner’s tour of the region to seek support for his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
“I think the Trump peace plan is on ice indefinitely now,” said Dan Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration. “They already understood that they couldn’t roll out a peace plan during an Israeli election or government formation, so now the same logic is going to apply. Anything in the plan that has the slightest hint of a concession or a hard ask to Israel will be political dynamite during a campaign.
“It’s basically a ghost economic summit,” said Shapiro. “There will be some ghost economic pledges in support of a phantom peace plan. It was already suffering from a significant lack of relevance and impact. Now it’s going to be even more so in light of the election year.” “It’s death for the peace plan,” said Gil Hoffman, a political columnist for the Jerusalem Post, referring to Netanyahu’s failure to form a government and new elections.
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