No to Trump's plan

The rejection of what Donald Trump calls the "peace plan for the Middle East" expressed by fifty European personalities reflects, on the one hand, the insubstantial nature of the proposal, launched with an electoral spirit by the US president and the prime minister From Israel; and on the other, it staged the rupture of the international consensus regarding a possible just solution for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

It is significant that the fifty signatories of the rejection document - among them former foreign ministers, former prime ministers or former leaders of the European Commission, the UN or NATO - belong to a broad democratic ideological spectrum: from conservatives to socialists, through liberals and environmentalists. This diversity in the denunciation of Trump's project dismantles any hint of political motivation in his arguments, as Benjamin Benjamin Netanyahu once again claims to denounce. The Israeli prime minister insists on torturing the attacks on Israel, which are critical, severe, of his particular policy.

Above all, the Trump and Netanyahu initiative would enshrine the indefinite occupation of the Palestinian territories. It does not guarantee the creation of an independent State as required by international law and, in exchange for an unbearable atomization of the Palestinian territory, offers barely promising funding for its population. The fifty European personalities who sign the complaint do exactly the same thing that Trump constantly presumes: calling things by name. Thus, they use the term apartheid to warn of the real consequences that the application of this unilateral plan would have. A situation that should be incompatible with the democratic nature of the State of Israel, as denounced by many voices within the country itself, alarmed not only with regard to the Palestinian issue, but also due to aspects of its internal policy.

One of the greatest damages that the current president of the United States has done to the peace process in the Middle East has been to dynamit, with unilateral decisions, the privileged role that Washington has historically played as a mediator between the parties. That role has disappeared - due to the exclusive responsibility of Trump himself - it makes sense that European foreign action assumes a more leading role in the area. The EU must become an effective actor, which, however difficult it may seem today, does not give up promoting a fair agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, capable of ending a conflict that has lasted since the last century. With the United States, today, you can't count.

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