The fate of the "Century Plan" is now in doubt because it is still unclear whether and when the Trump administration will give Israel a green light to implement some of its clauses. But how should Israel act if the plan remains theoretical? The 181 pages of the program provide no answer to the question, and the plan could become history if until the November 2020 presidential election, the green light is not accepted.

Again, therefore, even in the absence of negotiations, Israel will persuade the Trump administration to support a partial implementation of the plan. But at the same time, Israel must also make efforts to lower the strength of the EU and the UK. This goal must be achieved not only through the neutralization of the EU foreign ministers 'decisions (through the pro-Israeli governments' votes), but also by persuading European leaders and opinion makers that the century plan does not run counter to international law and the two-state solution.

Joseph Borell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Defense, issued a statement claiming that the plan "deviates from the agreed international parameters" and warned Israel that annexations in Judea and Samaria "will not go quietly." Israel must reject such arguments and present Europeans to the facts as they are. It should be emphasized that the Century Plan implements Rabin's vision, with one difference in favor of the Palestinians: it includes an exchange of territory that Rabin would not have imagined. The plan is also in line with Security Council Resolution 2334, at the end of President Obama's term. The decision was a diplomatic defeat for Israel because it stated that the Security Council "would not recognize any changes in the 1967 lines, including in Jerusalem, except those agreed in the negotiations between the parties." Trump disapproved of the decision, but the principle of territorial exchange meets its demands.

The Trump plan also does not deny the Palestinians the right to self-determination. It is clearly based on the two-state solution, with the aim of achieving "mutual recognition of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and of the State of Palestine as the nation-state of the Palestinian people." The Palestinian state will be demilitarized and its sovereignty will be limited, so as not to threaten Israel's security. On the other hand, the Palestinians will receive $ 50 billion in their economy to build infrastructure and generate growth. In fact, the United States is offering the Palestinians what it forced on the Germans and the Japanese after World War II: a complete renunciation of a destructive ideology for economic prosperity.
The Palestinians have already rejected the Trump plan, and they have been consistent in their policies since the first partition plan was first proposed in 1937. If the Palestinians continue to reject the plan and refuse to negotiate, Israel may annex the designated areas under the plan - the same step that the Europeans strongly oppose. But the only way, for Europeans, to prevent unilateral annexation (instead of bilateral) is to persuade the Palestinians to negotiate on the basis of an imperfect plan, which should give them a demilitarized state on a par with the territory ruled by Jordan and Egypt before 1967, A country where $ 50 billion is invested.
Emanuel Navon is a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS), and lecturer at Tel Aviv University