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US President Donald Trump is set to unveil this Tuesday what he says is a peace plan capable of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, Palestinians have rejected the plan saying it is pro-Israel. Nicholas Rushworth reports.
The US administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan risks actually destroying the potential for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, a prominent Palestinian lawmaker told Euronews.
US President Donald Trump says historic accords to be signed at the White House by Israel, UAE and Bahrain "mark the dawn of a new Middle East.
Israel is seriously examining the plan named Peace to Prosperity, US President Trump's vision for the Middle East, which was formally unveiled in Washington in January in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Notably absent, the Palestinians, whose input was not sought for the proposal. There are so many reasons why Netanyahu is happy with the plan, and so many why the Palestinians disagree. Annexation of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory is chief among these - in the Jordan Valley, 130 settlements in the West Bank.
Middle East peace plan: Trump unveils 'deal of the century'