WASHINGTON, Jan 29 — US President Donald Trump yesterday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan, drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and for agreeing to let Israel maintain control of long-contested West Bank settlements. Trump...
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Although Trump's stated aim was to end decades of conflict, the plan he advanced favored Israel, underscored by the absence of Palestinians from Trump's announcement. Trump set in motion a four-year timeline for Palestinians to agree to a security arrangement with Israel, halt attacks by the Islamist militant group Hamas and set up governing institutions in order to establish a Palestinian state with its capital in Abu Dis, a part of east Jerusalem.Abu Dis lies a mile east of Jerusalem's walled Old City, home to Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites. Palestinians living in Abu Dis are cut off by a high concrete Israeli security wall and checkpoints.
“Jerusalem is not for sale, our rights are not for sale and are not for bargain and your deal, the conspiracy will not pass,” Abbas said. Netanyahu said that the Trump plan offers Palestinians a pathway to a future state but that it may take them “a very long time to get to the beginning of that path.”
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