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News ID: 76634
Publish Date : 29 February 2020 - 00:55
Fifty Former European Leaders:

Trump’s Middle East Plan Akin to Apartheid

LONDON (Dispatches) – Fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East so-called "peace plan” in an open letter, saying it would create an apartheid-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.
In the letter published by British newspaper The Guardian, the former ministers rejected Trump’s plan for Zionists and Palestinians, which was announced in January and proposes a so-called "two-state” solution.
Trump’s blueprint risks fuelling the conflict, by annexing large parts of occupied Palestine territory under permanent Zionist military control and is not a legitimate solution, they wrote.
"The plan contradicts internationally agreed parameters for the Middle East peace process, relevant UN resolutions, including Security Council resolution 2334, and the most fundamental principles of international law,” the letter said, stressing that the details of the scheme was similar to "apartheid.”
Trump infuriated Palestinians last month, when he unveiled his much-delayed "deal of the century” during an event at the White House alongside Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected Trump’s one-sided plan, which largely meets the occupying regime’s demands in the decades-old conflict with the Palestinians while envisioning a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders.
The so-called "peace” plan enshrines al-Quds as "Israel’s undivided capital” and allows the regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley. The plan also denies the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homeland, among other controversial terms.
"The map featured in the plan proposes Palestinian enclaves under permanent Israeli military control, which evoke chilling associations with South Africa’s Bantustans,” the letter further stated.
In conclusion, the signatories urged Europe to reject the U.S. plan to pave the way for negotiations and take urgent and effective steps to eliminate the threat of annexation of Palestinian territories by the Zionist regime.
They also said that considering the urgency of the situation they called to action from "the international community, particularly the European Union”, in a bid to "preserve the dignity and rights of the Palestinians.”
Trump’s plan has triggered waves of protest rallies both across the Palestinian occupied territories and around the globe.
The Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, wants the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinians state, with East al-Quds as its capital. The continued expansion of Israeli settlements is one of the major obstacles to the establishment of peace in the Middle East.
Abbas has already severed ties between the Palestinian Authority and the Zionist regime as well as the U.S. in reaction to Trump’s highly-provocative scheme.