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US will ‘proudly’ open a brand new embassy in proposed ‘Palestinian capital’ in east Jerusalem – Trump
US President Donald Trump has stated that Washington will open a brand new embassy in East Jerusalem, the place a proposed new Palestinian capital will exist, below his freshly unveiled Center East peace plan.
Talking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the White Home on Wednesday, Trump stated that he’ll “proudly open an embassy” within the capital if the plan is accepted.
On the identical time, nonetheless, Trump stated that his plan envisions Jerusalem as an “undivided capital” of Israel.
“Below this imaginative and prescient, Jerusalem will stay Israel’s undivided capital,” Trump stated, scoring a prolonged applause from the viewers. “However that’s no huge deal, as a result of I’ve already accomplished that for you, proper?” he added.
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Trump relocated the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem final Could, successfully recognizing it because the nation’s capital. The symbolic transfer coincided with the 70th anniversary of the nation. Jerusalem is claimed as a capital metropolis by each Palestinians and Israelis and its japanese half is taken into account to be an occupied territory. Trump’s transfer due to this fact met fairly a blended response, because it was seen as an openly-pro Israel gesture that additional broken the US picture of an ‘neutral dealer’ for the years-long battle that it pretends to be.
The promise to in some way have Jerusalem as an “undivided” capital of Israel and on the identical time create a Palestinian capital in “components” of East Jerusalem induced vital confusion and sparked debate on what precisely the US president meant.
He stated "japanese Jerusalem" – undecided if that's deliberate ambiguity (comparable to may confer with Arab villages subsequent to Jerusalem like Abu Dis) https://t.co/ZbehLWq9El
— Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) 28 января 2020 г.
I'm nonetheless attempting to know, how the Palestinians can have japanese Jerusalem but Israel retains "unified" Jerusalem?
— Mina مينا (@Minaism) 28 января 2020 г.
Trump’s 80-page peace plan for Israel and Palestine proposes a two-state answer which might be negotiated on the idea of a conceptual and detailed proposed map. He stated the plan will “greater than double” Palestinian territory and no Israelis or Palestinians might be uprooted.
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