The Middle East peace plan announced by US President Donald Trump supports the Israeli position on nearly all of the most contentious issues in the decades-old conflict. As a result, the Palestinians have angrily rejected the plan, and the international community appears unlikely to rally around it. It would freeze settlement construction in areas earmarked for the future Palestinian state during the period of negotiations, but those areas are already largely off-limits to settlement activity. – SecurityUnder the plan, Israel “will maintain overriding security responsibility” for the state of Palestine, which will be “fully demilitarised”. The peace plan said “there shall be no right of return by, or absorption of, any Palestinian refugee into the state of Israel”.

Source: Irish Examiner January 29, 2020 00:56 UTC