The focus has been on Middle East peace efforts led by Jared Kushner, Trump`s adviser and son-in-law, on a vision of economic improvement but limited autonomy for the Palestinians. Palestinian opposition to Trump`s efforts sealed negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Officials told them that if the Palestinians did not accept the plan within 48 hours, Israel would be allowed to annex more than 30 percent of the West Bank. [83] In response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s august 8 announcement, Netanyahu. In February, as his administration began producing maps in the occupied West Bank in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trump`s proposed peace plan, Ambassador Friedman stressed that «any unilateral action in the run-up to the conclusion of the committee`s process endangers the plan and U.S. recognition.» [84] The composition of the Committee was announced on February 15. These include Friedman, his political adviser Aryeh Lightstone and Scott Leith, a National Security Council expert on Israel. Israeli members include Tourism Minister Yariv Levin and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer. No deadline has been set for the conclusion of the deliberations. [85] Fighting between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1920s, when both groups claimed British-controlled territory. The Jews were Zionists, new emigrants from Europe and Russia, who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to found a Jewish nation-state.
The indigenous Arabs (they were not yet called Palestinians) tried to curb Jewish immigration and establish a secular Palestinian state. On September 3, 2014, Abbas presented John Kerry with a new proposal for the peace process. [84] [85] The plan called for nine months of direct talks, followed by a three-year plan for Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines and leave East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. [86] The resumption of talks was conditional on Israel`s halt to construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem[87] and the release of the last prisoners from previous talks. [88] The first three months of the plan would revolve around borders and possible land swaps for the 1967 lines. The next six months will focus on issues such as refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, security and water. [89] The U.S. government rejected the initiative, saying it opposed any unilateral measures that could have a negative impact on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. [85] At the Taba summit (in Taba) in January 2001, talks continued on the basis of clinton parameters. The Israeli negotiating team presented a new map. The proposal removed «temporarily Israeli-controlled» territories from the West Bank, and the Palestinian side accepted this as a basis for further negotiations. However, Barak has not conducted any further negotiations at this time; The talks ended without an agreement, and the following month, the right-wing Likud candidate, Ariel Sharon, was elected Israeli prime minister in February 2001.
Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that on May 22, 2017, Benjamin Netanyahu showed Donald Trump a fake and altered video of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calling for the murder of children. It was at a time when Trump was wondering if Israel was the obstacle to peace. Netanyahu had shown Trump the fake video to change his position in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [59] Trump announced the deal as an important development for a region that has been plagued for decades by violence over the question of Israel`s place in the Middle East and whether it can coexist peacefully with its Arab neighbors. Trump told reporters that the atmosphere between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed during the secret negotiations that led to the announcement was «like love.» After the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after the Gaza conflict, the international community is more interested in promoting the peace process between Israel and Palestine. Netanyahu, facing legal problems and protests over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calculated that the political disadvantages of lifting the annexation would be offset by a chance to claim the mantle of peacemaker. The Elon Peace Plan is a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict proposed by former Minister Binyamin Elon in 2002. The plan calls for Israel`s formal annexation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and for Palestinians to become either Jordanian citizens or permanent residents of Israel as long as they remain peaceful and law-abiding residents. All these measures must be implemented in agreement with Jordan and the Palestinian people. This solution is linked to the demography of Jordan, where it is claimed that Jordan is essentially already the Palestinian state because there are so many Palestinian refugees and their descendants. [106] During the slow pace of the Madrid talks, a series of secret meetings between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators took place in Oslo, Norway, which culminated in the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinians and Israel, a plan that discussed the elements and conditions needed for a future Palestinian state «on the basis of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.» [36] The agreement, officially titled the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (AOPs), was signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process refers to the temporary discussions of the various parties and the proposals put forward to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [1] Since the 1970s, parallel attempts have been made to find the conditions on which peace can be agreed in both the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. Some countries have signed peace treaties, such as the Egypt-Israel (1979) and Jordan-Israel (1994) treaties, while others have yet to find common ground to do so. The human rights approach aims to achieve a certain type of peace that would include a negative peace – the absence of war and violence. It also aims for positive peace by addressing the root causes of the conflict and building institutions and structures that create and maintain peaceful relations between Israelis and Palestinians. According to sociologist Mervin Verbit, American Jews are «more to the right than to the left» on issues in the peace process. Verbit found that surveys of American Jews often reflect the views of the survey`s sponsors. Often, it is the wording of the poll questions that skews the result (a headline illustrating this point reads: «ADL poll shows higher support for Israel than J Street based on a poll»).
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