Fifty European personalities - former foreign ministers, former prime ministers or former leaders of the European Commission, the UN or NATO - sign a public letter, which reproduces Thursday THE COUNTRY, in which he asks the EU to reject Donald's plan Trump for the Middle East for considering that he would subject the Palestinians to an "apartheid" like the South African.
The plan, they denounce, allows the annexation by Israel of occupied territory and makes a Palestinian State unfeasible. Among the signatories are the Spaniards Javier Solana and Trinidad Jiménez, the French Jacques Delors and Hubert Védrine, the British Jack Straw and Chris Patten, or the Italian Massimo d'Alema and the Irish Mary Robinson.
The United Nations, the European Union, the Arab League and forums such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have spoken out against President Trump's peace plan considering that it breaks with an international consensus of decades on the two states' solution to the conflict between Arabs and Palestinians.
As the letter of the 50 former former foreign ministers and former European leaders emphasizes, "it has characteristics similar to apartheid" because of the segregation that it entails between two peoples. The old glories of the European diplomacy that subscribe the letter face the international law to the designs of the advisers who have elaborated the peace plan of the White House.
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The initiative favors the perpetuation of Israeli occupation while limiting itself to promising a better life for the Palestinians without guaranteeing their own state. Figures that led the European Union's foreign policy in recent decades, such as Javier Solana, not only express their concern for a project that can exacerbate the central conflict in the Middle East, but also call for the current European political leadership to take steps to reject the Trump plan and counter the threat of annexation of Palestinian territories.
As skilled tanned real estate lawyers in the Manhattan solar market, the architects of the White House plan have rushed to measure and delimit the farms in dispute. Since last Monday, a team of draftsmen map the West Bank to determine which plots of occupied Palestinian territory - 30% of the area - can be absorbed by the Jewish state.
Trump's Peace for Prosperity initiative assumes the ultimate platform of aspirations of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hopes to leave new negotiating parameters favorable to Israel's interests as a legacy of his decade.
The plan does not foresee more concessions than the eventual delivery of portions of desert territory in exchange for seizing the settlements of the West Bank (more than 400,000 settlers) and the strategic Jordan Valley, a natural border to moderate Sunni Arab countries.
Palestinians are required to resign from Jerusalem - their greatest identity emblem, embodied in the Al Aqsa Mosque Esplanade - and to the dream of a viable state on the west bank of the Jordan, as well as the return of the five-day diaspora million refugees inherited from the birth of Israel in 1948.
In counterpart to the mutilation of their hopes, the "agreement of the century", as the American president himself usually defines it, promises a flood of 50,000 million dollars in international investments. "Trump has limited himself to copying and pasting Israeli plans," veteran Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat defined the US proposal.
Israel intends to tolerate a demilitarized entity and subject to guardianship. Only in non-annexed areas of the West Bank can a pseudo State of Palestine emerge for 2.5 million inhabitants without effective control over their borders, and where "the transit of people and goods is supervised by Israel."
The freedom of movement of the Palestinians is at the expense of creating a network of “separate roads for each population and imaginative infrastructure solutions such as tunnels and overpasses.
The asymmetry of the peace plan has its highest expression in Jerusalem. Trump now declares it "indivisible," closing the way to the Palestinian claim to establish the capital of his State in the eastern part of the Holy City.