Tehran 7 February _US President Donald Trump's so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply “a colonial plan” to force Palestinians out of their homeland, says an analyst, adding that it is a deal for “apartheid and occupation” rather than a peace plan.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Charlotte Kates, activist and commentator, made the remarks during a Friday edition of Press TV’s The Debate program while commenting on Trump’s proposed plan for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We are not talking about a peace plan or proposal for peace or anything like that. What we are talking about is a plan for apartheid and further colonization and destruction of Palestine. So we have two parties that are only interested in pursuing permanent war, occupation, colonization, violence and destruction –namely the US and Israel – who are essentially making an agreement with one another to continue to perpetrate apartheid, violence and colonialism against the Palestinian people,” she said.
“This was never meant to be any kind of a peace deal or an agreement. It was only meant to be a joint plan for colonization, destruction and imperialist and Zionist hegemony over the peoples of the region. This is simply a colonialist plan between two occupying imperial forces in the region to strip the indigenous people of the region of their sovereignty, their rights, their freedom and, frankly, their ability to even obtain any form of economic justice,” she added.
On January 28, Trump unveiled his so-called deal of the century, negotiated with Israel but without the Palestinians.
Palestinian leaders, who severed all ties with Washington in late 2017 after Trump controversially recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Israeli regime, immediately rejected the plan, with President Mahmoud Abbas saying it “belongs to the dustbin of history.”
Trump’s Middle East scheme largely meets Israel’s demands in the decades-old conflict while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders.
It also enshrines Jerusalem al-Quds as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allows the regime to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
The proposal further denies the right of return of Palestinian refugees into their homeland, among other controversial terms.
Palestinian leaders, who severed all ties with Washington in late 2017 after Trump, in a controversial move, recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Israeli regime, immediately rejected the plan, with President Mahmoud Abbas saying it “belongs to the dustbin of history.”
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