TEHRAN (Iran News) – US President Donald Trump has repeated his hugely-controversial endorsement of occupied Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “undivided capital” as he outlined his administration’s self-styled scheme for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Palestine has already dismissed.
Defying international outcry, Trump on Tuesday announced the general provisions of the plan that he has dubbed “the deal of century” at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side.
The entire scheme for Palestine and Israel, trump added, has been penned in 80 pages, 50 of which, according to Reuters, encompass political courses of action, while the rest details an economic proposal that Washington announced last July, Presstv Reported.
Trump endorsed his contentious recognition in December 2017 of the al-Quds as Israel’s “capital,” a move he took in the face of historic Palestinian demands that the city’s eastern part serves as the capital of their future state. He said the plan envisages the city as the regime’s “undivided capital.”
“Under this vision, Jerusalem will remain Israel’s undivided — very important — undivided capital,” he said of the plan.
For years, the US had avoided declaring Jerusalem al-Quds the capital of Israel in the absence of a deal, as Palestinians also want the holy city as their capital.
In a hazy afterthought, though, Trump added that Palestinians too could have a capital in East Jerusalem.
The economic portion promises $50 billion in monetary allocations to Palestinians, Jordan, and Egypt. Palestinians have denounced the latter part of the US scheme as a means of bribing them into selling their rights.
The Palestinian sides — who had already rejected any such scheme in unison —were conspicuously absent from the ceremony, which experts view as largely ceremonial and an attempt to score a political win while each of the leaders on stage faces domestic crises.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
