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)
Op-Eds on “Deal of the Century”
- 02-21-2020 Trump’s Middle East peace plan: What’s there to be upset about? (Salam Fayyad)
- 02-17-2020 Palestine and the West: A century of “betrayal (Avi Shlaim)
- 02-03-2020 The Confederation Alternative for Israel and Palestine (Dahlia Scheindlin)
- 01-30-2020 What’s New About Trump’s Mideast ‘Peace’ Plan? Only the Blunt Crudity of Its Racism (Saree Makdisi)
- 01-30-2020 No deal: why Trump’s plan for Palestine will only create more conflict (Rashid Khalidi)
- 01-30-2020 Letters: As prominent Israelis dedicated to peace, we oppose Trump’s apartheid plan (The Independent)
- 01-30-2020 Don’t Call It a Peace Plan (Daniel Levy)
- 01-29-2020 Why Trump’s Apartheid Peace Plan Is So Dangerous – and Not Only for Palestine (Husam Zomlot)
- 01-29-2020 Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Exposes the Ugly Truth (Nathan Thrall)
- 01-29-2020 Trump’s ‘peace plan’: The farce, the fraud and the fury (Marwan Bishara)
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