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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nUS President Mr.\nDonald Trump unveils his long-awaited Middle East Peace Plan in the presence of\nIsrael\u2019s Prime Minister US President Mr. Donald Trump on January 28,\n2020 unveiled his long-awaited Middle East Peace Plan, mainly proposing to keep\nJerusalem as Israel\u2019s undivided capital, establishment of an independent\nPalestinian state and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the disputed\nWest Bank settlements. As part of the largely pro-Israel Plan, Palestinians\nhave a window of four years to study the deal, negotiate with Israel, and\n\u201cachieve the criteria for statehood.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The blueprint of the plan, which was jointly\nannounced by Mr. Trump and Israel Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, aims\nto solve one of the world\u2019s longest-running conflicts. It was drafted under the\nstewardship of President Mr. Trump\u2019s son-in-law Mr. Jared Kushner.\nMr. Trump promised to provide $50 billion in international investment to\nbuild the new Palestinian entity and open an embassy in its new state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plan, which Mr. Trump\ndescribed as \u2018Deal of the Century\u2019 and \u201cthe last opportunity\u201d for Palestinians,\nwas, however rejected by Palestinian President Mr. Mahmoud Abbas as well as\nIslamist militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza Strip. The UN\nSecretary-General Mr. Antonio Guterres also said that the UN supports two\nstates living in peace and security within recognised borders, on the basis of\nthe pre-1967 lines. The Arab League and the 57-member Organisation of Islamic\nCooperation also rejected the Plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The issues of the holy city of Jerusalem and the\nWest Bank settlements have been mired in controversy for decades. Both Israel\nand the Palestinians hold competing claims to Jerusalem. The Palestinians\ninsist that East Jerusalem, which Israel had occupied in the 1967 Middle East\nwar, be the capital of their future state. It may be noted that the\nPalestinians broke off contacts with the US in December 2017, after Mr. Trump\ndecided to recognise Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and move the US embassy to\nthe city from Tel Aviv. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So far as West Bank settlements are concerned,\nmore than 400,000 Israelis live there although the settlements are considered\nillegal under international law. The Palestinians also insist on borders based\non ceasefire lines which separated Israel and East Jerusalem, the West Bank and\nGaza between 1949 and 1967, which Israel rejects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, India has reaffirmed its call for a\ntwo-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and asked both sides to\nresolve all issues through direct negotiations. The Ministry of External\nAffairs stated that India has been consistently supportive of the Palestinian\ncause and has called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump Unveils Long-Awaited Middle East Peace Plan US President Mr. Donald Trump unveils his long-awaited Middle East Peace Plan in the presence of Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020. US President Mr. Donald Trump on January 28, 2020 unveiled his long-awaited Middle East Peace Plan, mainly proposing to keep Jerusalem as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMr. Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n