Trump Team Begins Drafting Middle East Peace Plan
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Trump Team Begins Drafting Middle East Peace Plan
11, 2017
"But obviously the two key questions are will Prime Minister Netanyahu decide to go for it"
and "will President Trump, once he’s presented a plan by his team, decide it’s worth the political capital required." Still, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel nor President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is in a strong position to negotiate.
Philip Gordon said that There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to Middle East peace,
Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who has broken stories on the American effort, wrote in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper last spring
that Mr. Trump had "succeeded in bringing peace, which in recent years had become a dirty word, back to the center of Israeli public and political discourse." But privately, officials from both sides express concern that Mr. Trump and his team are still naïve about the Middle East and ineffective in accomplishing their objectives.
Mr. Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy, said any plan must establish a sovereign Palestinian state
along the borders from before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Palestinian said that We do believe this is a historic opportunity,
and we will spare no effort to support President Trump’s investment in a better future,
Dennis Ross, the veteran Middle East peace negotiator, said Mr. Trump’s team has "done a very good
job of presenting themselves as having listened" and is now "taken seriously" in the region.
Jason said that We have spent a lot of time listening to
and engaging with the Israelis, Palestinians and key regional leaders over the past few months to help reach an enduring peace deal,
11, 2017
"But obviously the two key questions are will Prime Minister Netanyahu decide to go for it"
and "will President Trump, once he’s presented a plan by his team, decide it’s worth the political capital required." Still, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel nor President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is in a strong position to negotiate.
Philip Gordon said that There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to Middle East peace,
Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who has broken stories on the American effort, wrote in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper last spring
that Mr. Trump had "succeeded in bringing peace, which in recent years had become a dirty word, back to the center of Israeli public and political discourse." But privately, officials from both sides express concern that Mr. Trump and his team are still naïve about the Middle East and ineffective in accomplishing their objectives.
Mr. Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy, said any plan must establish a sovereign Palestinian state
along the borders from before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Palestinian said that We do believe this is a historic opportunity,
and we will spare no effort to support President Trump’s investment in a better future,
Dennis Ross, the veteran Middle East peace negotiator, said Mr. Trump’s team has "done a very good
job of presenting themselves as having listened" and is now "taken seriously" in the region.
Jason said that We have spent a lot of time listening to
and engaging with the Israelis, Palestinians and key regional leaders over the past few months to help reach an enduring peace deal,