The White House will soon unveil its Middle East peace plan. A 90-year-old grandmother to Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she'd welcome President Trump to talk about it.
BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank – Rep. Rashida Tlaib's 90-year-old grandmother says that when President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians he is welcome to visit her house to talk it over.
Israel held its second election in less than six months on Tuesday, a close race in which the nation's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to burnish his credentials with voters by playing up his close relationship with Trump. He also pledged to annex Jewish settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
"No hope, no openings, nothing for Palestinians – this is what we expect," added Al Kidwa, who runs the Yasser Arafat Foundation, a Ramallah-based cultural and educational institution dedicated to Arafat's legacy."I mean, look at the so-called U.S.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted in July to pass a resolution condemning the BDS campaign against Israel. It has no force in law. Israel passed legislation in 2017 that it has used to ban outspoken supporters of BDS from entering the country. "Trump represents the real face of the American administration," said Kassam Mtoor, 21, a law major at Birzeit University, in Ramallah. Mtoor is the president of the student council at the college. A year ago, Omar al-Kiswani, his predecessor in the role, was filmed being violently detained on campus by undercover Israeli operatives pretending to be Palestinian journalists there to interview him.
Rep. Tlaib's grandmother, despite her congenial offer to host Trump at her house to"enjoy sitting under an olive tree," seemed ultimately less inclined toward conciliation. There are different views about what caused these previous peace efforts to fail. There is also divergence over what the peace process correctly entails. But at its core it's a dispute – one of the world's longest-running – over ancient land that two peoples, Jews and Arab Palestinians, both lay claim to for their respective states.
Still, Ali Jarbawi, a former Palestinian government cabinet member for planning and development who teaches political science at Birzeit University, said that Israel's election and Trump's peace plan were almost meaningless for Palestinians.
Jarbawi, like a growing number of Palestinians, believes that a"one-state" solution – a combined Israeli-Palestinian nation encompassing all of the present territory of Israel, plus the West Bank, East Jerusalem and possibly the Gaza Strip and Golan Heights – may be the only realistic – for Palestinians – way of moving beyond an impasse that has been resistant to decades of intense military and diplomatic activity.
Yet many Israelis, while perhaps sympathetic to the hardships Palestinians face, say they ultimately do not do enough to help themselves, that they suffer from poor leadership and corruption, rely on Israel too much and that years of violence against Israeli citizens has exposed a fundamental unwillingness to pursue peace.
"Israeli laws, working conditions, social and medical benefits, all these things are much better for us. Palestinians see that and wish it was different," said Israeli.
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