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Palestinians Shouldn’t Just Say No to Trump Peace Plan
There’s a better way to respond to outrageous proposals than to reject negotiations with Israel.
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Palestinians have every reason to expect that they’ll hate the “peace plan” that’s hurtling in their direction like a missile fired from a White House launching pad. Their instinct will be to summarily reject it. Which is exactly what they shouldn’t do.
To respond to the plan’s almost inevitable outrages and humiliations by refusing to participate in a new round of negotiations would be to fall into a trap set by Israel and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. That would be self-defeating.