Trump Announces His Middle East Plan, Palestinians Call It ‘Slap of the Century’

By Staff, Agencies

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East ‘peace’ plan, drawing Palestinian condemnation for imposing strict conditions and agreeing to let the occupation entity maintain control of long-contested illegal West Bank settlements.

Trump announced his plan at a White House event with embattled Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing at his side. It includes what Trump called a four-year freeze by ‘Israel’ on new illegal settlement activity.

Although Trump’s alleged aim was to end decades of conflict, the plan he advanced favored the ‘Israeli’ occupation entity, underscored by the absence of Palestinians from his announcement.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, however, mocked what Trump has called the “deal of the century,” describing it as the “slap of the century”.

Palestinians refused to deal with the Trump administration in protest at pro-‘Israel’ policies such as moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied al-Quds, the original capital city of the occupied Palestinian state.

Abbas, speaking to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, called the plan the “slap of the century”.

“Al-Quds is not for sale, our rights are not for sale and are not for bargain and your deal, the conspiracy will not pass,” Abbas said.

Before Trump’s announcement, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza City with the enemy’s troops reinforcing positions near a flashpoint site between the Palestinian city of Ramallah and the Zionist settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank.