Donald Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Would Be ‘Apartheid Made Permanent’ - Yahoo News

Nothing is further from a peace effort than the plan that Israel and the Donald Trump administration have concocted for Palestine.

Previous American administrations have all been pro-Israel, and they’ve made every effort to circumvent international law.

But previous U.S. administrations have never formally challenged international law, and they considered the West Bank and Gaza occupied territories.

Support for Israel previously consisted of pressuring the Palestinian Authority, by buying it off if necessary, to get the Palestinians themselves to sign away their rights, thereby allowing international law to be circumvented.

But the present American administration has gone a step further by transplanting its embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the annexed city as the unified capital of Israel.

The U.S. Israel-Palestine deal openly violates the principles of international law and, if implemented, would set a dangerous precedent. Presented as the “deal of the century” by its proponents, the plan consolidates the occupation of the West Bank, the dispossession of Palestinians and the establishment of an apartheid system under which different laws apply to subjects living in the same territory.

These laws are essentially based on religion: Israel defines itself as a “Jewish state” and it discriminates among the people living under its control accordingly. Christian and Muslim Palestinians, for example, experience the same type of political domination.

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2020-02-26 05:51:13Z
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