"A kind of terrible and exclusive duo has been set up between Trump and Netanyahu"

Piotr Smolar: This plan has no legal value. It will not be applied to the letter. But it’s not his vocation. The Trump administration has claimed, from its inception, to blast all the foundations of international consensus on a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We are in 2020, multilateralism is at half mast, coups de force dominate. Washington first unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, then the annexation of the Golan Heights, then officially stopped viewing the colonial project, the expansion of Jewish communities in the West Bank, as illegal.

This plan is a fundamental step in this process. It is a question of validating, and even encouraging, the project of annexation, knowing in advance that the Palestinian side would condemn the document as a whole. The conditioned State Less, which is offered to the Palestinians, and the above-ground and virtual economic incentives – $ 50 billion (45 billion euros) promised with the checkbook of third countries – are mirages.

The problem for the Palestinians is their loneliness. They have no credible alternative today, internal or international, to cling to, capable of mobilizing the population. The depression is deep, and the destinies of Gaza and the West Bank more divergent than ever.

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