Trump's Middle East peace plan: key points at a glance
President’s vision emphasises Israel’s security rather than Palestinian self-determination
by Peter Beaumont
Jan 28, 2020
4 minutes
President Donald Trump has unveiled his much-touted Middle East peace plan, tweeting a map showing his vision for an even further depleted Palestinian state than that envisioned by the Oslo peace agreement in 1993.
The crude “concept” map in the plan shows the occupied Jordan valley under Israeli control – although Trump suggests that could be eased in the future – and a West Bank split north and south around Jerusalem, heavily eaten into by Israeli settlements which the plan proposes to recognise under Israeli sovereignty.
In a concession to the Palestinians, however, a plan to link Gaza
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