Trump says he'll reveal his Middle East peace plan 'two to three to four months' saying: 'It is a dream of mine to be able to get that done prior to the end of my first term'
By Francesca Chambers
Daily Mail
September 26, 2018
President Trump says he'll release a Middle East peace plan by early next year.
Trump said Wednesday that his administration would have a deal outlining a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ready in 'two to three to four months.'
'We’re working along on that,' he said sitting across from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 'I really believe something will happen. It is a dream of mine to be able to get that done prior to the end of my first term.'
Trump's optimism that he'd be the one to end the decades-old conflict came days after the U.S. took a hardline approach to the Palestinian government, shutting down its mission in Washington until the PLO agrees to negotiate directly with the Israelis.
The State Department timed its announcement to Rosh Hashana, the official start of Jewish New Year. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the move that was designed to put pressure on the Palestinian Liberation Organization to reenter talks was 'consistent' with U.S. policy.
Palestinian officials indicated that the closure would only deter the peace process, however.
'This is yet another affirmation of the Trump administration’s policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people,' PLO official Saeb Erekat told the Associated Press.
Trump's relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv also inflamed tensions. The U.S. said it was necessary to follow through on the legally-mandated action that presidents have put off for years through the use of waviers.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The best that Trump can hope for is a temporary two-state truce. Let’s not forget that Abbas and the Palestinian leadership have and continue to vow in Arabic that their real goal is to obliterate the Jewish state and to make the new one-state Judenrein.
2 comments:
Fully agree. Kinda hard to broker peace when one entity has sworn to obliterate the other. I'm not sure why world leaders don't seem to get that. It's really pretty simple.
I don't see peace in the Middle East for the foreseeable future. I believe the best we will do, with luck, is to keep the lid on and the mayhem to a manageable minimum until those involved come to believe that peace is better than constant conflict. They are not there yet.
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