Trump Peace Plan Likely Won’t Include Palestinian State

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan will include major economic and other incentives for Palestinians, but is likely to stop short of establishing a Palestinian state, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The plan will likely “enshrine” Israeli control in the West Bank, the report said, citing anonymous U.S. officials as well as Arab officials familiar with “sales pitches” delivered by Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Washington will call for tens of billions of dollars in aid from Gulf nations to be invested into both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Egypt and Jordan.

“The economic plan only works if the region supports it. This is a very important part of the overall equation,” a U.S. official told the Post. “But this is not a so-called economic peace. We are taking very seriously both aspects of this, the political, which deals with all the core issues, and the economic.”

“Core issues” generally refers to borders, status of Jerusalem, and the so-called right of return in which Palestinian “refugees” in the diaspora and their descendants will have the right to move inside Israeli proper, something that has always been a red line for Israel since it would spell the end of the Jewish state by demographic means. (Read more from “Trump Peace Plan Likely Won’t Include Palestinian State” HERE)

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