{"id":60108,"date":"2020-01-29T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60108"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:27:29","slug":"trump-unveils-mideast-plan-hailing-big-step-towards-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60108","title":{"rendered":"Trump unveils Mideast plan, hailing \u2018big step towards peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-150.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-150.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Donald Trump Tuesday unveiled long-awaited details of a US plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning it may represent the last chance at statehood for the Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, Israel takes a big step towards peace,\u201d Trump told a White House news conference, standing alongside visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he revealed key points of the plan already strongly rejected by the Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy vision presents a win-win opportunity for both sides, a realistic two state solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israel\u2019s security,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan was warmly welcomed by Israel\u2019s prime minister, who called it a \u201chistoric day\u201d for the Jewish state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan, Trump said, proposes a four-year freeze of Israeli development in the area eyed for a future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJerusalem will remain Israel\u2019s undivided, very important, undivided capital,\u201d Trump stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the plan would also provide the Palestinians with a capital in occupied East Jerusalem, he said, while indicating that the West Bank would not be cut in half under the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will also work to create a contiguous territory within the future Palestinian state, for when the conditions for statehood are met, including the firm rejection of terrorism,\u201d Trump said as he called on the Palestinians to turn their back on the radical Hamas movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling it a \u201chistoric opportunity\u201d for the Palestinians to achieve an independent state, Trump said he had written Tuesday to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to enlist his support for the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No Palestinian official was present at the launch although the ambassadors from three Arab nations \u2014 Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain \u2014 were at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI explained to (Abbas) that the territory allocated for his new state will remain open and undeveloped for a period of four years,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis could be the last opportunity they will ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPalestinians are in poverty and violence, exploited by those seeking to use them as pawns to advance terrorism and extremism,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey deserve a far better life.\u201d &#8212; 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