Gradually, it becomes clear how revolutionary Trump's attempt is to change the paradigm of dealing with the Palestinian issue, and how much Israel's bargaining position has improved. The plan denies the Palestinians their main political asset: the veto right, which has placed them for decades at the center of the world's political and moral stage. They have won it even though it is a small nation, which cannot be defined by any constructive achievement in a century of corruption, violence and refusal. The Palestinians were able to achieve this status in the establishment of a state of immense international assistance. Instead, they chose, as expected, to base themselves on their victims, to spend and waste billions, to sanctify terror and make brazen claims. As they continue to do so now, the loss of this property presents them as more pathetic than dangerous.
Their international and regional status gave the Palestinians a veto in two critical areas - the stabilization of the Middle East and the future of the territories. The first gave them, in their ignorance, many of the leaders and elites in the West. The other gave them, in their folly, large parts of the Israeli public. In the West, the simplicity and ignorance of the political dynamics of the Middle East has led to the assumption that the Palestinian problem continues to be a decisive factor in the violence and instability of the region. It fed the common hallucination of "solving" this problem, as a critical contribution to its calm.
The notion of profit "efforts to bring peace to the Middle East" has been established throughout the world as a nickname for trying to settle the Palestinian problem. For such a "solution", he argues, the Palestinians must be wanted. Their serial reluctance paid off, dramatically increasing political support, financial aid and "understanding" of Palestinian terrorism, and the legitimization of Israel and its fight against this terrorism.
Over the past decade, the supreme murder of tribal officials fighting throughout the Middle East has shown that the Palestinian cause is simply irrelevant to the calming of the region and that its "solution" will not rise or fall. When even the Europeans understood the meaning of the "Arab Spring" and the ISIS phenomenon, the Palestinians lost the urban legend of their veto on "Middle East peace."
The veto on regulating the situation in the Occupied Territories was granted to Palestinians, mainly good-natured Israelis, who adopted their own delusions. On the right, many believed that the right of the Jewish people to their full historical homeland could be exercised, despite the presence of millions of Palestinians, with or without full political rights, to be attached to the territory where Israel would rule permanently. On the left and in the center, the large majority proposed "territories for peace", under which Israel will emerge from a vast majority of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, in order to end the conflict.
Both delusions give the Palestinians a veto over the future of Zionism. The right-wing delusions about the inclusion of millions in the country frustrated, despite constitutional cleverness, the Jewish-democratic combination, which is the soul of the Zionist enterprise; They don't even need terror. Bringing the "peace" in exchange for evacuation from most of the territories gives the Palestinians an even more significant veto over the realization of the Zionist enterprise. All they have to do is to persevere in what they have been doing for a hundred years: to stubbornly refuse to end the conflict through the claim for "right" of return, and to educate their children on the terrorism and de-legitimization of the Jewish state. Thus, they strike the peace-seekers for eternal presence in the heart of the populated country, pending a barren change in their friendships.
Ariel Sharon, who dismissed Israel from two million Gazans, took the first step in abolishing this veto by disengaging from an area that Israel does not need anyway. The second step, Donald Trump, in a plan that essentially negates the need for Palestinian consent, opens the door to Israel's unilateral steps in support of the United States. Israel's major security issues have been addressed; The Palestinians can accept a sterilized entity to be called a "state" only in the event that it is impossible to reconcile with the Jewish state; Arab countries loosely maneuver; The "international community" will continue to complain. If Israel behaves wisely, without using the rare opportunity to return to either of its hallucinations, the plan has a big line.
Dr. Dan Schippen is the head of the Haifa University's International National Security Program