Middle East
This includes “Israel’s exercising its sovereignty over portions of Judea and Samaria and once again offering the Palestinians an opportunity to have a prosperous and independent existence.”
It apparently would assist in combating pirates and foreign vessels, and could be finished by March 2021.
Foreign diplomats join thousands of Palestinian protesters at an anti-sovereignty rally in Jericho.
A report out by the Kohelet Policy Forum insists that sovereignty is a historic opportunity not to be missed; however, others debate the response by Arab countries and world bodies, and even the amount of U.S. support at present.
“By shattering the two-state illusion and advancing a two-state solution, Israel hopes it will open up a realistic path to peace,” says Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer.
“He was enough of a politician not to oppose the idea publicly, but like much of the world, he wondered why [Jared] Kushner thought he would succeed where the likes of [Henry] Kissinger had failed,” wrote former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton in his 592-page tome.
The California legislator acknowledges that “the prospects for a two-state solution in the near-term appear dim.” Even so, she believes that “peace is possible only through direct negotiations and an agreement that results in two states for two peoples.”
Husband-and-wife team Gedaliah and Elisheva Blum take a page or two from an American iconic directory, and a decade later, see a thriving resource for residents, visitors and others looking for information at their fingertips.
While Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on the Palestinian issue and Israeli sovereignty, the two can bridge differences in other areas, UAE foreign minister tells U.S. Jewish group.
The balloons bearing photos of dead terrorists are a “warning to the Zionist entity,” says the Al-Nujaba Movement.
Momentum created by the Trump peace plan can be used to “start a joint international effort on the basis of existing internationally agreed parameters,” says E.U. foreign policy chief.
While there may be minor rumblings from some Arab states, experts on the right agree that there will be no major backlash and Trump’s peace plan will be recognized as diverging from the tried-and-failed approaches to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
