(27 Jan 2020) Palestinians in the West Bank refugee camp of Deheisha protested on Monday against the Trump administration's peace proposal ahead of its unveiling. They burned pictures of the US President and waved banners reading "Trump! You will never get it. But people of Palestine will never give up their homeland for $$$".
Donald Trump said on Monday that while the Palestinians have already rejected his proposed deal, he expects they ultimately will agree to the blueprint the White House plans to announce following meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief challenger Benny Gantz.
Reports in Israeli media have speculated that the plan will be extremely favourable to Israel, including the possible annexation of large pieces of territory which the Palestinians seek for a future independent state.
The Trump administration took several steps in recent years that angered the Palestinians.
They ranged from recognising the contested city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the US Embassy there, to closing Palestinian diplomatic offices in Washington and cutting funding to Palestinian aid programmes.
A Palestinian official said that President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected overtures from mediators in recent weeks to arrange a phone call with Trump.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a classified diplomatic issue.
Trump, himself under the cloud of his impeachment trial in the Senate, appears poised to offer Netanyahu some needed help in the form of the most generous American peace proposal ever.
Previous peace plans have included conditions for Israeli withdrawals and the prospect of evacuating Jewish settlements.
Netanyahu has hailed it as a chance to “make history” and define Israel's final borders.
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