President Trump unveiled his administration’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace at a press conference on Tuesday that currently lacks Palestinian buy-in but nevertheless provides a path to Palestinian statehood and substantial territorial gains.
Trump said that Israel would adopt the plan as a basis for negotiations with the Palestinians. The plan itself calls for more than doubling the area of the West Bank currently under Palestinian control, as well as a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
However, the President also insisted that Israel would retain “undivided” control over its capital of Jerusalem, and that no Israelis or Palestinians would be uprooted from their homes to make the deal.
“All prior administrations from the [administration of] Lyndon Johnson have failed,” Trump told assembled officials and reporters, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side. “But I was not elected to do small things, or shy away from large problems.”
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