30, January 2020 Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan
Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan is a complete sham. It is a desperate effort to distract the public from his impeachment and to protect Prime Minister Netanyahu from heading to prison. Trump for obstruction of justice and abuse of power and Netanyahu for fraud, bribery and breach of trust.
The timing is a playbook of President Clinton’s Middle East peace plan launched in December 1998 to distract the public from his impeachment.
The Peace plan deprives
the Palestinians of nearly everything they had been fighting for: East
Jerusalem as their national capital, the removal of Jewish settlements on the
West Bank, and territorial contiguity and control over their own borders and
security that a sovereign state normally enjoys. Palestinians driven from their
homes in Israel have no right to return. Contrast that with Jews who receive a
warm welcome and enjoy residential rights in Israel from anywhere in the world.
The plan is an apartheid plan calling for a continuation of the for settler colonialism of Palestinian land.
The language is especially galling calling for Palestinians to make more concessions, to a people who have stolen their land and forced them to live in abject poverty. It is an absolute travesty that we continue to prop up Israel with $billions in economic and military aid to perpetuate this grave injustice.
Today, more than a million Palestinian
refugees live in poverty.
The sole agency dedicated to assist them is
the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA. In a further effort to
appease Israel and intensify the suffering of the Palestinians, the Trump
administration has cut all economic support to UNRWA.
With virtually no global support the plan is destined for the trash heap of diplomatic history.
No comments:
Post a Comment