Published: 11 February 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
THE PLAN’S TOTAL ERASURE of Palestinian voices and blatant denial of these rights lays bare the real intentions of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations.
Just as importantly, the past week clarifies the positions of so-called moderates—from US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Israel’s Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party—who have either barely protested or outright endorsed the plan.
While it is no secret that the US and Israel have always rendered Palestinian narratives, demands, and aspirations secondary, centrist acquiescence to Trump’s plan suggests that the “deal of the century” is the logical culmination of a long-held vision of an apartheid Palestinian pseudo-state, bereft of meaningful sovereignty or self-determination.
Trump and Netanyahu have inherited this vision and added their typical vulgarity. Their plan would enshrine Jewish supremacy in all of Israel and historic Palestine, annexing Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank, the Jordan Valley, and East Jerusalem, while leaving Palestinians in the occupied territories with a patchwork of isolated ghettos surrounded by walls and military checkpoints.
And Palestinian refugees will be categorically denied their right to return to the land from which they were expelled by Israel because they were not Jewish.
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Photo: MK Aida Touma-Sliman, January 15, 2019 (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk via Flickr)
