Trump Plan Ignores the Past and Offers a Bleak Future

Golan offers her views with regards to US President Donald Trump's Deal of the Century. While the deal ignores the past, it offers a bleak future. The American plan unveiled on Jan 28,2020 was actually an American-Israeli plan. The Americans did not include the Palestinians in the process, as f...

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Published in:Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics, and culture economics, and culture, 2020-01, Vol.25 (1/2), p.94-99
Main Author: Golan, Galia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen)
Arab Israeli relations
Negotiation
Negotiations
Palestinian people
Presidents
Prime ministers
Proposals
Refugees
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Summary:Golan offers her views with regards to US President Donald Trump's Deal of the Century. While the deal ignores the past, it offers a bleak future. The American plan unveiled on Jan 28,2020 was actually an American-Israeli plan. The Americans did not include the Palestinians in the process, as far as can be determined. They did not mediate a negotiation; there was no negotiation. Thus, problems of process that afflicted previous negotiations, such as Israel's ignoring the asymmetry between the Israelis and the Palestinians and demanding one-to-one compromises over the West Bank, were absent. Israel's assumption of exclusive right to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) -- part of which it might be "generous" enough to negotiate -- did not present an obstacle to the Trump plan, since there was no negotiating process. The only negotiations, if there were any, were between the American and the Israeli representatives.
ISSN:0793-1395