More Than Two Dozen Former Senior Administration Officials Express Alarm at the Administration’s So-Called “Peace Plan”
More than two dozen former senior administration officials, including U.S. Ambassadors to Israel, noted American negotiators, and senior White House officials, among others, today released an open statement expressing alarm at the Trump administration’s so-called Israeli-Palestinian “peace plan.” They conclude that the plan will not achieve peace or a two-state solution, its stated goal, and, instead, will put much at risk.
The signatories write: “Successive administrations of both parties have recognized that a negotiated two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians would serve American interests and values, ensure Israel's future as a secure, Jewish, democratic state, and enable Palestinians to fulfill their legitimate aspirations to freedom, dignity, and prosperity in an independent state of their own. Far from advancing that cause, this plan could strike a fatal blow to the two-state outcome, and lead inexorably toward a binational state in which Palestinians do not have equal rights.”
The statement concludes by noting that the plan cannot — and does not — form the basis of a viable way forward to anything but the permanent entanglement of Israelis and Palestinians.