White House officials have issued a statement on Friday rejecting
Israeli Channel 13’s report on the Israeli peace deal, declaring the
deal to be “inaccurate,” and saying that “very few people on the planet know what is in it.”
Channel 13’s report cited a “senior American official,” and presented a
very broad-brush summary of the plan, including giving the Palestinians a
state that included the majority of the occupied West Bank, and some of
the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem as their capital city.
Though this fairly unspecific report is in keeping with what most plans
could be expected to contain, US special envoy Jason Greenblatt not only
rejected the idea, but added that any speculation about what the US
plan actually is “is not helpful.”
The Trump Administration has played up this plan as a “deal of the
century” from the beginning, but has offered virtually no details of
what it would actually contain. There is still no specific timeline for
the release of the real plan.
White House: Israeli TV Report on Peace Plan Not Accurate
US envoy says speculation about plan is 'not helpful'
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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