National Interest: Trump's peace plan is the worst idea and will ignite the Middle East

A media expert, in an article in the National Interest Magazine, criticized the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump between the Palestinians and the Israelis, describing it as the worst idea ever that would set fire to the Middle East.

Tony Walker, Assistant Professor of Media at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, said that Trump's vision is not a realistic plan for peace that puts an end to a protracted conflict, but rather is like a real estate deal that gets one of the two sides for a low price for accepting it, while continuing to move the other side forward in The acquisition of real estate that does not own title deeds under international law.

Walker considers the proposed plan not a "deal of the century" as Trump claims, but rather an invitation to Israel to impose its sovereignty over swathes of land it seized during the June 1967 war.

On the other hand, the deal offers the Palestinians - according to the article - the remaining lands that are already under their "formal" control, and interspersed with outposts that will remain subject to the Israeli military occupation. The writer likened the land shown to the Palestinians to a Swiss piece of cheese full of holes.

Half a country
The media professor says that Trump's plan does not propose a solution that leads to two or even half of a state, but rather "a recipe for a permanent occupation of an incomplete Palestinian entity, with little prospect or prospect of becoming a state or even obtaining basic autonomy free from any military occupation."

He expected the fate of the latest peace plan to be the failure of its predecessors, and that it would do nothing for peace and stability in the region, indicating that on the contrary, it would be a "call to mobilize extremists" throughout the Middle East, who have no desire for a reasonable settlement that would allow Israelis and Palestinians. Coexistence in two adjacent entities.

According to the National Interest article, Trump's peace plan is nothing more than points of dialogue, besides it gives the green light for supporters of the expansionist policy of the Israelis.

The plan also calls on the Palestinian leadership to accept the conditions contained therein, which are much less than what was negotiated in previous peace efforts, which dates back to the 1993 Oslo treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

This treaty provides for the establishment of a transitional self-government for the Palestinians for a period of five years, leading to a permanent settlement based on a two-state solution, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions 2424 and 338.

Unfortunately, according to Tony Walker, the Oslo peace process was born dead because of the "poisonous domestic policy" pursued by the Israeli and Palestinian parties.

Under the Trump plan, the alleged two-state solution is stalled in the foreseeable future, as it allows Israel to annex the territories under its administration, including the Jordan Valley.