Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” will not bring peace – the US and...
Jonathan Cook
The National / January 29, 2020
The proposal deliberately includes a host of unrealisable preconditions before what remains of Palestine can be recognised.
Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months, Israeli officials had leaked many of its details. The...
Trump’s Middle East proposal a stark departure from US diplomacy and lacks regional support
Joyce Karam
The National / January 29, 2020
As the US president unveiled proposals, Israel was the only major stakeholder present.
From the Madrid conference in 1991 until the Obama administration’s trilateral summits between the Palestinians and Israelis two decades later, successive US presidents have tried to secure the presence of both...
Israel minister in Jordan Valley: This is land of ‘our forefathers’
Middle East Monitor / January 28, 2020
Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri toured the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank yesterday, a day before the Trump administration is expected to unveil its peace plan.
According to the report by right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva, Deri – accompanied by Knesset...
UN rejects US deal of the century
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
United Nations has rejected US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and reiterated that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved based on UN resolutions and international law.
In a statement, a copy of which sent to MEMO, Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN...
UK: Israel planning regime leaves Palestinians ‘little option but to build without permission’
Middle East Monitor / January 28, 2020
The UK government has acknowledged that Israel’s planning regime in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem leaves “Palestinians with little option but to build without permission”.
Lord Ahmad, writing on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), was responding yesterday to a question concerning...
Graduates scramble for better pay
Jaclynn Ashly & Alaa Daraghmeh
The Electronic Intifada / January 9, 2020
Even a college degree couldn’t help Fathi Taradi.
Taradi, 34, tried for a decade to find work as a journalist in the occupied West Bank. He eventually had to settle on construction work in Jerusalem.
“The first few days working in...
Trump’s “win-win” plan hands everything to Israel
Omar Karmi
The Electronic Intifada / January 29, 2020
After much anticipation and with great ceremony, on Tuesday US President Donald Trump presented his plan for Middle East peace.
It’s “a great plan,” Trump had already said a few days ago, though he may just have been humouring his son-in-law Jared Kushner, its chief architect.
On Tuesday, he called the plan “win-win,”...
Trump’s Middle East peace plan: the key points
The National / January 28, 2020
The plan calls for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions of occupied East Jerusalem
President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions...
