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Donald Trump's Staged Peace Plan Announcement

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Tue Jan 28, 2020 at 12:22:21 PM EST
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Donald Trump must be desperate to misdirect the world's attention from his impeachment trial. Today he upstaged his defense counsel by holding a presser with Benjamin Natanyahu to announce his middle-east peace plan.

He called it a two party solution but it is not.

Via the New York Times:

Rather than a serious blueprint for peace, analysts called it a political document by a president in the middle of an impeachment trial working in tandem with a prime minister under criminal indictment and facing his third election in a year in barely over a month.

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    It was as much to (none / 0) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Jan 28, 2020 at 01:52:57 PM EST
    Pull Beebees chestnuts out of the fire as it was Trump.  It just looked desperate.  On all sides.

    Agreed. This is a political distraction. (none / 0) (#2)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Jan 28, 2020 at 02:05:06 PM EST
    Trump's so-called peace plan won't be going anywhere for a myriad of reasons, which include his administration's unilateral countermanding of decades of bipartisan U.S. policy toward Israel with its public announcement recognizing Jerusalem as that country's capital, the related relocation of our U.S. embassy to that city from Tel Aviv, and our continued support for the Netanyahu regime's ongoing seizure of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

    Sad to say but hardly surprising, given Trump's role here as a perpetually bad actor, the Palestinians no longer trust the United States to be an honest broker in any negotiations with the Israelis because quite obviously, we're not. Decades of painstaking work by several U.S. presidents (starting with Jimmy Carter) and countless members of our diplomatic corps were just summarily cast aside by these Trumpist know-nothings. It will take many years to repair the damage to our relations and reputation in the region.

    Aloha.

    Cynicism is a harsh reaction (none / 0) (#3)
    by KeysDan on Tue Jan 28, 2020 at 04:33:22 PM EST
    to efforts to address an intractable matter, but it is, in this case, warranted.  The immediate rejection of the Trump plan by Mahmoud Abbas is unsurprising not only on the basis of the outcome, but also, the process.

    Indeed, the plan for something may be worse than nothing, even though, in my view, there are several elements of the plan that could be a basis for discussion deploying less unreconstructed politics and more Diplomacy 101.

    Any primer should have warned of the long-standing sticking point: the Capitol: the Trump plan calls for an "undivided Jerusalem" for Israel and an East Jerusalem neighborhood, beyond separation barriers, for a Palestinian state. Trump's politically expedient and impulsive relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was not helpful to a balanced negotiation casting primal doubt on even-handedness by the US.

    Am I to understand that the (none / 0) (#4)
    by desertswine on Tue Jan 28, 2020 at 05:23:16 PM EST
    Palestinians had no input into this so-called "peace plan?"  And that they're in a take-it-or-leave-it situation?  If that's the case, then this plan is going nowhere fast.  It's merely window dressing for both Trump and Netanyahu.

    How do you announce a peace plan (5.00 / 2) (#7)
    by Chuck0 on Wed Jan 29, 2020 at 12:57:59 PM EST
    and not even invite one of the parties involved to the announcement? This announcement is a farce. This what Jared has been working on for three years? Find him a cell somewhere in Israel next to Bibi.


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