Trump's peace plan pleases Israel but anger Palestinians

Donald Trump presented his plan on Tuesday to try to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories. The American president's initiative satisfied Israel, was rejected by the Palestinians and sparked backlash elsewhere.

Donald Trump touted a "win-win" project and a realistic "two-state" solution. His "friend" Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, was all smiles at his side.

Many concessions to the Hebrew State. Among the many sensitive points of this plan is the recognition of the annexation by Israel to its territory of the colonies which it established in the occupied West Bank, in particular in the Jordan Valley. US Ambassador David Friedman said the Hebrew state can annex its colonies "without delay." A future Palestinian state on these routes would be far below what the Palestinians aspire to, namely all of the Territories occupied since 1967 by Israel.

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The US project also calls for "a clear rejection of terrorism" from the Palestinians. It plans a tunnel between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian state would also be "demilitarized". Jerusalem will remain "the indivisible capital of Israel," said Trump, proposing to create a Palestinian state capital confined to suburbs of East Jerusalem.

Israeli satisfaction, Palestinian rejection. If the Israeli Prime Minister hailed "a historic day", Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who in recent months has refused American offers of dialogue, said the plan would not go through.

"It is impossible for any child, Arab or Palestinian, to accept not having Jerusalem" as the capital of a Palestinian state, he said. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of two million inhabitants geographically separated from the West Bank, also rejected the American proposal.

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13 dead in the West Bank. After the plan was announced, at least 13 Palestinians were injured Tuesday night in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Clashes also broke out in Gaza. REUTERS / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

The Arab world does not bury the project. The United Arab Emirates saw in this text "an important starting point" for a return to the negotiating table. Their ambassador to Washington, the American capital, was, with his counterparts from Oman and Bahrain, one of the representatives of Arab countries at the White House, the seat of the presidency of the United States, where the absence of the Palestinians was glaring. .

Saudi Arabia, for its part, said it "appreciated" the efforts of Donald Trump, while Egypt called on the Israelis and the Palestinians for a "careful" and "in-depth" review of the plan.

Shortly after the presidential address, the United Nations (UN) stressed that it was sticking to the borders defined in 1967.

France wants a solution with two states. Paris "expresses its conviction that the two-state solution, in accordance with international law and internationally agreed parameters, is necessary for the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East," said the spokeswoman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs. France "will continue to act in this direction in conjunction with the United States, its European partners and all those who can contribute to the achievement of this objective".

" You lost ". For Robert Malley, a former adviser to Barack Obama (President of the United States from January 2009 to January 2017) and president of the non-governmental organization International Crisis Group, the message to the Palestinians is clear and without nuances: "You have lost, you will have to get used to it ”.

"This peace plan is like so many other Trumpian adventures: it offers a solution to a problem that we did not have and, in so doing, makes the initial problem much more complex," said Aaron David Miller of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.