Trump peace plan delights Israelis, enrages Palestinians: "It sides with Israel on key contentious issues that have bedeviled past peace efforts, including borders and the status of Jerusalem and Jewish settlements, and attaches nearly impossible conditions for granting the Palestinians their hoped-for state"
Financial Times, Opinion: Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘deal’ has always been a fraud: "It always looked like a smokescreen to mask the burial of the two-state solution — an independent Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank, and Gaza with Arab East Jerusalem as its capital living in peace alongside Israel — and greenlight the Israeli annexation of most of the West Bank."
J Street, IT’S NOT A PEACE PLAN, IT’S AN ANNEXATION SMOKESCREEN, "If there was ever any doubt that the Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” was anything other than a smokescreen for annexation, it was disabused just moments after the plan’s glitzy White House announcement."
Democratic candidates censure Trump peace plan, warn against annexation: Biden: "This is a political stunt that could spark unilateral moves to annex territory"; Warren: "Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is a rubber stamp for annexation"; Buttigieg: "Peace requires both parties at the table. Not a political green light to the leader of one for unilateral annexation."
