Trump puts the peace plan, a timing that raises questions in Washington

Mohammed Al-Minshawi-Washington

Washington, DC, is awaiting the announcement by President Donald Trump of his plan for peace in the Middle East known as the "Deal of the Century", which he announced he wanted to put forward three years ago.

The plan was postponed several times, for various reasons. The political aspects are still under wraps, and the economic aspect of the plan was revealed through a conference and workshops hosted by Bahrain last summer, and the vision depended on investing $ 50 billion in various projects and initiatives.

On the one hand, the Trump administration has taken many steps that some have deemed effective implementation of many of the provisions of the expected deal, especially regarding the fate of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Lara Friedman, director of the Middle East Peace Foundation in Washington, said there are many reasons why Trump may choose this timing to present the deal of the century, including his attempt to support his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces criminal charges, in the upcoming elections.

She added to Al-Jazeera Net that offering the deal now gives him an opportunity to disrupt his ongoing trial in the Senate.

For his part, William Politics professor of political science sees that Mary "Shane Burns" is what Trump will present "not a peace deal for the Middle East, but rather an electoral document that helps the Netanyahu campaign, which guarantees the Israeli right's support to both, Netanyahu and Trump" as stated in his tweet .

It is worth noting that Trump will meet in Washington with Netanyahu and head of the "White and Blue" party Benny Ganets to discuss the details of the deal after its launch, and the two had previously announced their intention to annex the Jordan Valley and settlements to Israel.

A former American diplomat for Al-Jazeera Net expressed the difficulty of visualizing this scenario if Trump put forward his plan known as the Deal of the Century, and added, "There may be a surprise of a large caliber if Trump's ideas include Israel's control of these areas, no one knows what Trump will bring."

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Asked if there were contacts between his administration and the Palestinians who had previously announced their rejection of the plan, Trump told reporters on the presidential plane, "We talked to them briefly and I am sure they might initially respond negatively, but the plan is really very positive for them." .

Palestinians reject the American plan and consider it unilateral, especially after Trump made the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved his country's embassy to it.

Former Aaron David Miller, who worked for many years on the Middle East peace file, tweeted, "That the Middle East peace plan be presented weeks before the third Israeli elections in one year, and he did not care at all with the Palestinians. All this takes American diplomacy to Unprecedented degrees of falls. "

Lara Friedman agreed with this proposal and said to Al-Jazeera Net, "The Trump administration's policies and positions have been effectively closed and intent on the possibility of finding a path for the existence of a sovereign Palestinian state. I imagine that the plan includes more policies that hinder the existence of a Palestinian state."

Shane Burns agrees with Friedman, stressing his conviction that "the Palestinians will not get anything from the Trump plan."

Many experts have questioned, from the start, the expertise and competence of Trump's management team for the century deal overseen by his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

That prompted Miller to say that "even in our worst moments we have never gotten as bad as Trump's Middle East peace team."

Meanwhile, Dan Shapiro, the former US ambassador to Israel in the administration of former President Barack Obama, warned that "the need to take into account when reviewing the deal of the century that it can be eliminated if Trump lost the upcoming presidential elections."

He stressed that Democrats "will never commit to Trump's plan or ideas because they see them as harmful to US interests in the Middle East."