Report: Trump Wants Israel to Give Part of Jerusalem to Palestinians
Israel Today
May 6, 2018
Just months after recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and days before moving the US Embassy there, Israeli media reports that US President Donald Trump now wants Israel to give part of the Holy City to the Palestinians.
The Trump Administration has been working for months on a new Middle East peace proposal that seeks to address the major sticking points like control of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, rather than sidestep them until final-status talks, as all other proposals have done.
Israel's Ma'ariv daily newspaper reports that when he visited Washington last week, Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was made privy to details of this new proposal, in particular the portion relating to Jerusalem.
According to the report, Israel will be asked by Trump to relinquish four Arab neighborhoods on the eastern side of Jerusalem. Abu Dis (where the Palestinian Authority already has a parliament building), Isawiya, Shuafat and Jabl Mukabar would become the new Palestinian capital of "Al Quds." Jerusalem's Old City, it is reported, would be placed under international supervision.
Already the plan would cut off some Jewish neighborhoods, like Pisgat Ze'ev, from the rest of Israeli-controlled Jerusalem. Some fear this would be only the first step toward the Palestinian Authority claiming even wider swaths of the city.
It was also reported that in exchange for accepting this proposal, Israel would receive total and unquestioned American backing in handling the Iran nuclear threat however it sees fit.
US officials denied the report in remarks to other Israeli media outlets.
4 comments:
"US officials denied the report..."
Deny they did Dave. But it seems only logical that the Trump administration would offer the Palestinians part of Jerusalem. They've got to give them something, otherwise any negotiations are DOA.
Negotiate with Palestine over anything regarding Israel? That was a joke, right?
Dave, you're spot on. Any negotiations that do not call for the destruction of Israel will be a DOA joke. Nevertheless, the Trump administration is determined to achieve a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offering up part of Jerusalem, a key demand by the Palestinians, is Trump's way of placating the Palestinians after moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Unless a liberal government takes over Israel, any proposal giving away part of Jerusalem is DOA. Likewise, any proposal that does not give eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinians for their capital is DOA.
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