Two
months ago, the long-awaited release of the Trump administration’s
ambitious plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, what the
president has called the “ultimate deal,” seemed imminent.
President
Trump’s two top envoys to the peace process — Jared Kushner, his
son-in-law and advisor, and Jason Greenblatt, a former senior Trump
Organization lawyer — had prepared and begun to circulate a 40-page
draft.
But
the proposal hit a wall. Persian Gulf Arab states, which have courted
and been courted by Trump, flatly rejected terms they saw as radical,
pro-Israel and out of line with traditional U.S. policy and
international law, according to officials familiar with the
peace-seeking process.
Jordan and Egypt, which had similarly promising beginnings with Trump, also scotched the terms.
As
a result of that opposition, the administration backed away from
publicly revealing its plan and has switched to a different approach:
increasing pressure on the Palestinians in hopes of pushing them to the
negotiating table................https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-israel-palestinian-peace-trump-20180904-story.html
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