Hussein Ibish, Columnist

Trump’s Israel Peace Plan Isn’t a Plan and Won’t Bring Peace

This election-year charade will only inflame tensions on the West Bank.

January 28, 2020 at 8:45 PM UTC

By Hussein Ibish

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

Left out by the new plan.
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The Trump administration’s plan for Israel and the Palestinians is the biggest blow to any hopes for peace since the Oslo agreements were signed in 1993. It may even be fatal.

Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz, Donald Trump purported to outline a two-state solution. But what he proposed is apartheid: a single state of Israel with limited Palestinian autonomy in some regions.