Focus on the Middle East
Trump's big "Peace Deal" - 01/28/2020
In the run-up to the meeting, Trump was expected to announce the
farewell to the two-state plan of Oslo, which had so far only been
half-defended by the western states - including the EU - in his
meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the opposition leader -
taking advantage of the worldwide wave of sympathy with Israel,
resulting from the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,
which justifiably occupied the world media the previous day and
dealt with the crimes of the Nazis. At the same time, the meeting
can be seen as mutual aid from both governments - Trump is under
pressure - Impeachment and elections are in sight - Netanyahu -
Corruption tank charges and also early elections. Trump did not go
that far today - formally the two-state solution remains,
even if another annexation of Palestinian land and anti-Palestinian
planning were given a new, more aggressive face - an initiative
that was immediately rejected by the Palestinian government.
The
US-Israeli plan is now designed to create Bantustans for the
Palestinians, and has unlimited control and power from the Israeli
army, and can in no way satisfy the legitimate interests of the
Palestinian people.
This assessment is also shared by the
Israeli civil rights movement and summarized briefly as follows:
Not peace, but Apartheid: A
brief response to the “Trump Plan”
What has
changed today? The reality on the ground is already one of
full Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River
and the Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is
a reality of one, inherently undemocratic, state. And so, the main
change today is that Israel and the Trump administration are taking
a step further in laying bare their intention to perpetuate this
reality. This clarity significantly reduces the gap between the
situation as it is, and the euphemistic terms used to describe it.
What hasn’t changed today? Tomorrow, there will still be
14 million people living between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea, five million of them Palestinian subjects who
have no political rights. And all of us here, in one way
or another, will remain under the rule of the same government in
Jerusalem, a government that works relentlessly to advance the
supremacy of one people at the expense of the other, while
continually trampling its rights underfoot.
And the future?
What the Palestinians are being offered right now is not
rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No
amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts. But,
the painful facts of today give rise to hope for the future, the
only future that can genuinely offer peace. A future not based on
supremacy for some and oppression for others, but on full equality,
liberty, dignity, and rights for all.
That day will come.
Hagai El-Ad B’Tselem Executive Director
Info mail B´Tselem from 28.01.2020
More
information on this topic from B´Tselem can be found here.
Consistent with this "peace plan", Netanyahu today also
declared the extensive annexation of the Jordan Valley Zone C of
the Palestinian State. See also
Times of Israel 28.01.2020 and the comments in the next short
article on this page. In conclusion, it should be pointed
out that the new national state law of July 2018 deprived the
non-Jewish population of their rights, declared them second-class
citizens - or rather non-citizens - which also includes Arabs with
Israeli citizenship - not to mention from the Palestinians. Here
are some German media voices on this issue.
Deutschlandfunk -
Die Zeit -
TAZ
Israeli annexation plans for Oslo Zone C - an integral part of
the Palestinian state
In this part of our website, a critical assessment of the
political situation in the Middle East region - i.e. Israel -
Palestine - and the neighboring countries - is to be set up and
backed up with known and new map material.
The reason for the establishment of this section is the open
discrepancy between the events happening there and our reporting,
especially in Germany, as well as the announcement of further
annexations of Palestinian areas - on the way to Erez Israel,
announced by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
September 11th. of 2019.
The reason for the establishment of this section is the open
discrepancy between the events happening there and our reporting,
especially in Germany, as well as the announcement of further
annexations of Palestinian areas - on the way to Erez Israel,
announced by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
September 11th. of 2019.
The adjacent poster of IRGUN - a Jewish
terrorist organization that was taken over by the Israeli army -
headed by Menachim Begin - later Prime Minister of Israel -
represents the real territorial claims of Israel, which ultimately
also shoot Jordan. (Source:
Wikipedia
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Irgun_poster_Erez_Jisrael.jpg)
He hoped to improve his chances for re-election, but it was not
enough for him. But, and this is essential, this plan has generated
very small criticism in Israel - except for the Arab minority - over
20% of the population - and some leftist groups seem to like the
plan. None of the other parties has condemned the announcement of
annexation, so there seems to be a middle-right religious consensus
to annex the entire Jordan Valley. In addition to the territorial
claim, this also represents a key position in water distribution
for the areas left to the Palestinians and neighboring countries.
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