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The economic component of the Middle East Peace Plan will be presented at a conference in Bahrain on Tuesday and Wednesday entitled "From Peace to Prosperity". A plan whose outlines have already been announced and which has been rejected by the Palestinians who will not go to Manama.
The plan was concocted by President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner . The US administration promises to raise $ 50 billion over ten years to develop the economy of the Palestinian Territories and riparian countries. Its flagship project is to create a corridor connecting the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, the two Palestinian territories several tens of kilometers apart.
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The Trump administration promises that a political component will come later, in the fall. But Palestinian officials are already rejecting this plan. They claim that the political side outpaces the economic aspects and believe that the pro-Israel administration of President Donald Trump seeks to buy them and bury their goal of an independent state.
" While Israel has recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization as the legitimate and unique representative of the Palestinian people, the United States of America disputes this fact. The US Congress considers us terrorists, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a press conference on Sunday.
While there are security cooperation agreements between Israel and ourselves, Trump regards us as terrorists. But the Oslo Accords endorsed by Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin recognize the PLO. Therefore, I would like to know what the Americans will have invented in the end. They are now talking about $ 50 billion or $ 60 billion worth of funds. We are used to hearing that kind of thing.
I do not need an intermediary to ask for help from the Arab countries. I go there myself and ask them for help. So, how is it that they want to help us by playing the role of the mediator between us and the Arab countries through projects that Trump will not finance? We have enough . "
"From peace to prosperity"
As the Palestinian Authority decided to boycott Manama's meeting, "From Peace to Prosperity," Washington did not invite the Israeli government.
US allies in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the lead will travel to Bahrain as well as Egypt and Jordan. Cairo will send one of its deputy finance ministers to this conference told Agence France-Presse Ahmed Hafez, spokesman of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jordan will also send a senior official from the Ministry of Finance to Bahrain. " No economic proposal can replace a political solution that puts an end to the occupation " of the Palestinian territories by Israel, however added the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The participation of Morocco, where a protest was held in Rabat Sunday against the " Congress of Shame " has not been confirmed.
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