The Palestinian Authority believes the White House will present its peace plan in the coming weeks, after pressure by Netanyahu.
A senior Palestinian official who recently met with Western diplomats told Haaretz that information obtained by the Palestinians indicates that Israel is pressuring the Trump administration to publish its plan quickly. Based on what Palestinians have been able to learn about the plan so far, he added, the PA will reject it out of hand, enabling both Netanyahu and the U.S. administration to paint the Palestinians as peace rejectionists.
The document predicted that the American peace plan would call for a Palestinian state in temporary borders, consisting of noncontiguous territory amounting to only about 40 percent of the West Bank – the areas defined as Areas A and B in the Oslo Accords – plus the Gaza Strip, with a capital near Jerusalem. It would also let Israel annex 10 to 15 percent of the West Bank, station troops in the Jordan Valley and along the West Bank mountain ridge, and retain overall responsibility for the area’s security.
