Trump’s ‘peace’ deal flagrantly tramples on Palestinian rights and freedoms | Yara Hawari

This plan is simply a continuation of US-Israel policy. Palestinians have heard it all before and won't accept it

At the White House on Tuesday, Donald Trump laid out his "deal of the century": a plan for total Palestinian capitulation. It calls on Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state with all of Jerusalem as its capital, to give up the right of return that would allow Palestinian refugees to live in Israel, to accept the annexation of the Jordan Valley and the illegal Israeli settlements there, and to live in a series of Bantustans connected by roads and tunnels that would all essentially be controlled by Israel.

None of this should be surprising. Not only is the plan simply a continuation of the Trump administration's policy towards Israel and Palestine since the day he took office, but it comes after decades of disregard towards Palestinian aspirations of freedom and sovereignty.

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