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News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine

Trump’s “Deal of the Century” (January 2020)

Trump's "Deal of the Century" (January 2020)

Above: President Donald Trump, right, looks over to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

“Deal of the Century”: What Is It and Why Now?

On January 28, 2020, the Trump Administration announced the details of the political portion of its plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a plan known worldwide as the “Deal of the Century.” The announcement came almost eight months after Washington’s publication of the economic portion of the plan, titled ‘Peace to Prosperity,’ at a workshop in the Bahraini capital Manama in June 2019. The major features of the supposed peace plan are thus now in place after three years of tense discussion. The two portions have been combined under the title “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People.” (Read more from the Arab Center Washington DC)

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