Donald Trump, January 28, 2020 at the White House in Washington. - MANDEL NGAN / AFP

Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled his Middle East peace plan based on a "two-state" solution, in which he grants Israel a number of concessions. A peace plan that the Hamas movement, the first to react in the Palestinian camp, immediately rejected.

"My vision presents (...) a realistic two-state solution," said Donald Trump, giving unprecedented guarantees to his "friend" Benjamin Netanyahu. He hailed "a historic day". Displaying his optimism about the future of this “very detailed” 80-page project, the tenant of the White House estimated that it could make it possible to “take a big step towards peace”. He then unveiled on Twitter the map of the Israeli and Palestinian states provided for in his peace plan.

This is what a future State of Palestine can look like, with a capital in parts of East Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/39vw3pPrAL

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2020

Jerusalem, "indivisible capital of Israel"

The future Palestinian state would only see the light of day under several "conditions", including "the clear rejection of terrorism", immediately underlined the republican billionaire, detailing a project which had been rejected beforehand, with force, by the Palestinians. Jerusalem will remain "the indivisible capital of Israel", assured Donald Trump, remaining elusive on the means of reconciling this promise with the proposal which he took up on his own to create a capital of the Palestinian State in Jerusalem. East.

The Israeli Prime Minister, for his part, stressed that the White House plan would grant Israel sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, a large strategic area of ​​the occupied West Bank where the Israeli army has just strengthened its presence. Pounding his belief that the Palestinians deserve "a better life," Donald Trump also warned them. He said he had sent a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urging him to seize "a historic opportunity", and perhaps "the last", to obtain an independent state. "I explained to him that the territory planned for his new state would remain open and without development" of Israeli colonies "for a period of four years," he said.

Arguments that did not convince the Palestinian Hamas movement, in power in the Gaza Strip. "Today we say we reject this plan. We will not accept a substitute for Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, "Khalil al-Hayya, a senior figure in the movement, told AFP.

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