More info on Trump’s Peace Plan and how it will change the Oslo Accords

Geri7 · 2020-02-03T14:42:06Z

Interesting article ... The Oslo blood libel is over Israel Hayom.com By Caroline B. Glick 1/31/2020 When you read the Trump plan closely, you realize it is a mirror image of the Oslo Accords. Rather than Israel being required to prove its good will, the Palestinians are required to prove their commitment to peace. From 1994 through 1996, as a captain in the IDF, I served as a member of Israel's negotiating team with the PLO. Those years were the heyday of the so-called peace process. As the coordinator of negotiations on civil affairs for the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, I participated in all of the negotiating sessions with the Palestinians that led to a half a dozen or so of agreements, including the Interim or Oslo B agreement from September 28, 1995, which transferred civil and military authorities in Judea and Samaria to the PLO. Throughout the period of my work, I never found any reason to believe the peace process I was a part of would lead to peace. The same Palestinian leaders who joked with us in fancy meeting rooms in Cairo and Taba breached every commitment they made to Israel the minute the sessions ended. Beginning with the PLO's failure to amend its covenant that called for Israel's destruction in nearly every paragraph; through their refusal to abide by the limits they had accepted on the number of weapons and security forces they were permitted to field in the areas under their security control; their continuous breaches of zoning and building laws and regulations; to their constant Nazi-like anti-Semitic propaganda and incitement and solicitation of terrorism against Israel – it was self-evident they were negotiating in bad faith. They didn't want peace with Israel. They were using the peace process to literally take Israel apart piece by piece. Israel's leaders shrugged it off. Instead of protesting and cutting off contact until Yasser Arafat and his henchmen ended their perfidious behavior, Israel's leaders ignored what was happening before their faces. And in a way, they had no option of doing anything else. When Israel embarked on the Oslo peace process it accepted Oslo's foundational assumption that Israel is to blame for the Palestinian war against it. From the first Oslo agreement, signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, through all its derivative deals, Israel was required to carry out "confidence-building measures," to prove its good faith and peaceful intentions to Arafat and his deputies. Time after time, Israel was required to release terrorists from prison as a precondition for negotiations with the PLO. The goal of those negotiations in turn was to force Israel to release more terrorists from prison, and give more land, more money, more international legitimacy and still more terrorists to the PLO. On Tuesday, this state of affairs ended. On Sunday morning, just before he flew to Washington, US Ambassador David Friedman briefed me on the details of President Donald Trump's peace plan at his home in Herzliya. Friedman told me that Trump was going to announce that the United States will support an Israeli decision to apply its laws to the Jordan Valley and the Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria. I asked what the boundaries of the settlements would be. He said that they have a map, it isn't precise, so it can be flexibly interpreted but it was developed in consultation with Israeli government experts. Suspicious, I went granular. Khan al-Ahmar is an illegal, strategically located Beduin encampment built on the access road to Kfar Adumim, a community north of Jerusalem. Israel's Supreme Court ordered its removal, but bowing to pressure from Germany and allegedly, the International Criminal Court, the government has failed to execute the court order. I asked if Khan al-Ahmar is part of Kfar Adumim on the American map. Friedman answered in the affirmative. What about the area called E1, which connects the city of Maaleh Adumim to Jerusalem? Yes, it's inside the map, he said. How about the illegal building right outside the northern entrance to my community, Efrat, south of Jerusalem in Gush Etzion. The massive illegal building there threatens to turn Efrat's highway access road into a gauntlet. Is that area going to be under Israeli jurisdiction? He nodded. How about the isolated communities – Yitzhar, Itamar, Har Bracha? Are they Israel? Yes, yes, yes, he said. Our map foresees Israel applying its sovereignty to about half of Area C, he explained. What about the other half? Without control of the surrounding areas, the communities in Judea and Samaria will be under constant threat. Their development will be stifled by limitations on the development of critical infrastructure. For now, Friedman replied, everything in the rest of Area C will be governed as it has been up until now. Israel will have overriding civilian powers and sole security authority. In fact, in our plan, he explained, Israel will have permanent ove...

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Trump is a true negotiator in that he has a great sense of what the Palestinians truly want and what they are willing to barter for. Their negative stance on everything from the beginning is S.O.P. He sees through that old ploy!

Once again, it is a starting point. As it also pushes for what Israel truly wants and needs.

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