Trump’s acquisition plan may seem to be a death for the two -state solution

For decades, the successive presidents in Washington preferred a copy of a two -state solution to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. What no one has imagined so far is that the second country will be American and not Palestinian.

President Trump Amazing plan The removal of the Palestinian population in the entire Gaza and the United States taking the coastal pocket not only wrinkled to the Middle East. This may also have written an obituary for a long -standing goal, but it is a long time to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel in a state of peaceful coexistence.

Any vision of a Palestinian state included Gaza as an integral part of it, along with the West Bank. In the vision of Mr. Trump, Gaza will become an American region that has turned into a “Riviera from the Middle East.” It will not belong to the Palestinians anymore, but it will be open to anyone who wants to live there. For this issue, he pointed to the openness to the Israeli guarantee of parts of the West Bank, and promised to reveal his position within four weeks.

The horizons of a Palestinian state have already diminished in recent years, especially after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and led to an Israeli retaliatory war in Gaza, which killed 47,000 fighters and civilians, according to what he said, according to Gaza, the health authorities. The residents of the Israelis or the Palestinians see the scenario of the two countries as a viable plan anymore, according to opinion polls.

But the rest of the world, led by the United States so far, continued to adhere to the idea as an official policy, if it had no other reason other than that of the absence of alternatives. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia insisted that it be the Palestinian state Part of any deal that creates diplomatic relations With Israel, a goal followed by Mr. Trump and former President Joseph R. Biden Junior.

“If Trump believes that the United States has somehow Gaza and allow Israel to include parts of the West Bank, it is completely mistaken,” said Jeremy Bin Ami, President of J Street, a Washington -based liberal organization that promotes it. Peace negotiated in the Middle East. “There is no way to move forward in a deal.”

But opponents of the Palestinian state feel the courage at this stage. While a few of them took Mr. Biden’s continuous insistence on the two -state solution seriously, they feel confident that Mr. Trump’s return to power means that there will be no Palestinian state.

Morton A. Klein, the national head of the American Zionist Organization, which opposes the two -state solution: “It is a dead issue.” “I think most people think it is a dead issue.” He added, “They had a country in Gaza. How did this do?”

Mr. Trump has long threw himself as the only person who could bring peace to the Middle East – on Thursday, he told an audience at the national breakfast that he wanted to remember him a “peace maker” – but he never achieved special ambition. When he took office in 2017, he took the task of resolving the old conflict between generations between Israelis and Palestinians, expecting that he would be “It is not difficult as people have thought over the years.”

But it turned out that it was difficult as people have thought over the years. He appointed his son -in -law Jared Kushner to developed a plan that was issued in 2020 a Palestinian case depicted of a kind, but it was deducted to the point that the proposal was widely seen as inclined towards Israel. Under the plan, Israel could be allowed to preserve its settlements in the West Bank and complete control of the unified Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians would have been offered 50 billion dollars in international investment.

The plan did not go anywhere, but Mr. Trump was able to register a funeral prize by nominating diplomatic relations between Israel and many Arab countries, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, in what was called the Ibrahim Agreement.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia refused to join at that time, but Mr. Biden is close to securing a deal until the October 7 attack, detonating the negotiations. Returning to his post, Mr. Trump hopes to finish the touches on this agreement, which helps to transform the area.

But he did not need any solution to a solution from the two countries since he returned to power and his newly appointed ambassador to Israel, Mike Hackabi, who excluded it all. “I will be very surprised if it comes and says:” Let’s go there and get a solution from the two countries, ” Mr. Hackabi said last month in an interview with my mother magazine, A Jewish magazine based in New York.

Mr. Trump remained mysterious in that week. When he announced his plan to take “ownership” on Gaza in White House press conference With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel, he was asked whether this means that he no longer supports the two -state solution. He replied: “This does not mean anything about one country, one country, or any other state.” “This means that we want to get – we want to give people an opportunity in life.”

He asked about it the next day On CBS news“I certainly did not hear the president say it was the end of the two -state solution,” said Mike Walz, National Security Adviser to Mr. Trump. But he or any other administration officials did not explain how Gaza can be reconciled away from the Palestinians with the creation of a country that is acceptable to them.

The reaction to the plan of Mr. Trump Gaza was widely negative outside Israel. In the past two days, António GuxresUnited Nations Secretary -General, as well as leaders from Kingdom of Saudi Arabiafor Egyptfor Jordanfor Britainfor Francefor Germanyfor Australiafor turkeyfor Canadafor Japanthe European Union Others have returned all support to the two -state solution. “There is only one solution, which is a two -state solution,” Foreign Minister Lars Loki Rasmussen from Denmark The Danish media was told.

But at some point, this coincided with as a diplomatic ritual for talking points more than a realistic agenda. In Israel and the Palestinian territories, the idea of ​​being two states was losing side by side in the peace of the wide support he was getting.

In Israel, only 27 percent of people support a solution from the two countries In the Gallup poll last summerWhile 64 percent opposed. This was a reflection in 2012, when it supported 61 percent and was only 30 percent.

This was almost identical to the opinions of the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where only 28 percent of those who were interviewed last summer supported such a plan, while 64 percent opposed it. Like this is a fundamental decrease in enthusiasm since 2012, when it was supported by 66 percent in those areas compared to 32 percent of those who did not do so.

Yakov Amidror, former National Security Adviser to Mr. Netanyahu, said that the two -state solution had died.

“There is no way to rebuild Gaza,” he told Alabiya Telvent. “The West Bank is another political issue that must be discussed. But in Gaza, I do not see two million Palestinians living in less than 400 square kilometers, 80 percent of the buildings have been destroyed.”

Elliot Abrams, who advised many Republican presidents in the Middle East, including Mr. Trump during his first term, said that the fact is that the two -state solution was not applied for some time even if world leaders refused to accept this. While the main acquisition plan in Gaza may be in itself, Mr. Abrams said it focused on the plight of the Palestinians who live in a war area instead of the lines on the map.

“Trump’s plan has changed the issue from politics to what is happening to the people,” said Mr. Abrams. He talked about how Gazan lives now, can live better in the future, and has not been suspicious of Ghazan. So his plan is a reminder that the two -state solution is just ministers abroad screaming at each other, not a solution at all. “

On the other hand of the discussion, Mr. Bin Ami agreed that Mr. Trump had a point. He said: “There is the element of truth under all this, which is that it is really difficult to imagine how you will build there are still two million people there.”

He also agreed that “the concept of ancient state solution has already disappeared for a while.” But he was designed in the hope that it would be part of a wider change in the region led by Arab rapprochement with Israel, led by Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bin Amy said: “You must be part of this normalization deal.” “We have referred to it as a solution of 23 countries.”