![]() Trump’s plan admits that it “necessarily entails the limitations of certain sovereign powers in the Palestinian areas.” Or as Drobles put it, “it is now important to emphasize, primarily through action, that the autonomy does not and will not apply to the territories but rather to the Arab population alone.” In other words, Trump, like Drobles 40 years ago, insists on absolute Israeli control over land, while outsourcing administration of the non-Jewish residents of that territory. Trump’s and Drobles’s plans share a conviction that there should never be any true Palestinian sovereignty over the land. Source: 1979 Drobles plan/Trump’s 2020 Peace to Prosperity plan His plan was basically a detailed attempt to execute the then-Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for settlement expansion-a task that successive Israeli governments carried out with great zeal over the following four decades, placing 640,000 settlers in key areas throughout the West Bank. In 1979, the World Zionist Organization released a plan titled “Master Plan for the Development of Settlements in Judea and Samaria, 1979–1983,” written by Matityahu Drobles, a former member of the Knesset for the Herut-Liberal Bloc-a precursor to today’s Likud party-and the head of the World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division, the body responsible for planning and building settlements. In fact, it bears striking resemblance to another plan published more than 40 years ago. “If people focus on the old, traditional talking points, we will never make progress,” he argued.īut the Trump plan is actually as traditional as it gets. Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, boasted of his work. ![]() “We’ve taken an unconventional approach,” Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and the architect of the recently released U.S. President Donald Trump and his top aides pride themselves on thinking outside the box and boldly challenging conventional wisdom. ![]()
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