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  Trump’s peace plan is a crossroads. The next move belongs to Gantz.

  In 2003, George W. Bush presented Israel with a roadmap. In 2020, Donald Trump presented Israel with a crossroads. Trump’s plan is not a sign pointing forward but a milestone marking two different directions: one points to a one-state dystopia, and the other to a two-state reality on terms favorable to Israel; one points to…

  By Eylon A. Levy

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  The real thing that’s missing from Trump’s peace plan

  In years of relentless vitriol attacking my coverage, myself and my family while I was Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times, the most distressing was a short text from the spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization on Israel’s Memorial Day in 2015. “Your lack of empathy for Palestinians is unbelievable,” it said. At…

  By Jodi Rudoren Jan 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Let’s call Trump’s plan what it is: Oslo C

  President Donald Trump went to great lengths on Tuesday to present his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan — his “deal of the century” — as novel and even groundbreaking. But if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that we’ve seen much of it before. It has considerable overlap with plans laid out by three previous U.S….

  By Gilead Sher Jan 29, 2020 | 4 min read

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  Netanyahu traded Israel’s independence for the ‘deal of the century’

  The proposals laid out by President Trump yesterday seemingly cement “unshakeable, unbreakable” U.S. support for Israel by offering the Israeli government unconditional American support for immediate annexation of land in the West Bank, while conditioning and constraining Palestinian self-determination to meet any and all Israeli security needs. While formally presented as a basis for negotiations,…

  By Tamara Cofman Wittes Jan 29, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Why are we so obsessed with John Demjanjuk?

  On Tuesday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a photo of Sobibor guards that purports to reveal Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk in a guard uniform at the Sobibor Death Camp. German historian Martin Clippers said the museum used the German police to conduct a biometric examination to affirm it was Demjanjuk. I have seen…

  By Tom Teicholz Jan 29, 2020 | 5 min read
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  Trump’s peace plan didn’t kill the two-state solution. It was already dead.

  After years of waiting, numerous delays, endless speculation and a lot of hype, the Trump administration’s much-anticipated peace plan for Israel and Palestinewas finally unveiled Tuesday. Predictably, it was greeted with very mixed reactions. Prime Minister Netanyahu, desperate to distract domestic attention from his multiple criminal indictments for corruption, effusively praised the plan, while President…

  By Dov Waxman Jan 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is a death sentence for Palestinian hope

  I have lived my whole life under the Israeli occupation. I was born under occupation, went to school and university under occupation, and became a surgeon under the occupation. The occupation is a cruel reality that permeates every corner of our physical and psychological beings. For so many years, I was genuinely hopeful that it…

  By Thameen Darby Jan 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  American Jews must defend the two-state solution – before Democrats accept that Trump destroyed it.

  On Tuesday, the Trump administration released its long-trumpeted “deal of the century” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan, which can be read in full here, does what no American presidency has done before: It provides specific American terms for borders, refugees, and Jerusalem, along with other contentious issues like the status of Gaza, prisoners…

  By Alex Zeldin Jan 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a declaration of victory over us Palestinians

  On Tuesday at noon, after three years of meaningless suspense, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided what the fate of the Palestinians would be in a room bereft of a single Palestinian. Drawing on the “tragic” conditions that Palestinians have to live under and the economic largess Palestinians would supposedly enjoy should…

  By Muhammad Shehada Jan 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  I moved to Israel with hopes of peace. Trump’s plan is the nail in that coffin.

  Throughout President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements announcing a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, symbolic words like “peace,” “hope” “dignity” “fair” and “historic” rang in my ears. The President said it was “time for this sad chapter of history to end,” and “we must break free of yesterday’s failed approaches.” And…

  By Dahlia Scheindlin Jan 28, 2020 | 5 min read
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  Donald Trump, the destroyer

  Trump has an uncanny knack for destroying what he does not like

  By Michael Koplow Jan 28, 2020 | 4 min read