By AHMED THARWAT
Jan. 28, 2020: President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during a ceremony at the White House after the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan was revealed
Trump and Netanyahu announced the long-awaited Middle East peace plan, coined the deal of the century. Trump the dealmaker, description it, as “ a win-Win” plan for Israel and Palestinians. President Donald Trump has been gloating about his long-awaited Middle East peace plan. The plan he announced last week, and touted as “ a win-win” plan for Israel and the Palestinians, would give Israel most of what it wants. It gives the Palestinian people a death certificate.
This peace plan has no peace in it, or even a plan. It is full of fanfare for two people who are in deep trouble at home and on a suicide mission to divert attention from their personal problems.
Trump is losing political clout amid the impeachment spectacle. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is gasping for survival back home, where he has been charged with bribery, fraud, breach of trust and corruption.
The Middle East has not merely provided America raw materials and oil. It also has been a place where American leaders can divert attention when they are in trouble, a place to launch rockets and bombs — and peace initiatives. It’s been that way since President Richard Nixon dispatched Henry Kissinger on his frenetic mission to the Middle East, which was dubbed “shuttle diplomacy” in the 1970s.
These so-called Middle East peace plans never brought peace to the area — they only brought more land to the apartheid state of Israel and more misery to the Palestinians. With every peace initiative, the map shrunk more for Palestinians, until they have lost most of the land (90%) they called home in 1917.
The peace plan tradition from troubled presidents didn’t stop with Nixon and Kissinger, but was carried on by Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — and now Trump.
