Iran Press/America: US President Donald Trump unveiled the long-delayed US-Israeli plan on Tuesday 28 January amid repeated rejections by Palestinians and Muslims across the region.
"Today Israel has taken a giant step towards peace," Trump claimed as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood by his side.
He went on to say: "My vision presents a win-win solution for both sides," adding that Israeli officials have said they will endorse the plan, which is referred to as the so-called Middle East peace plan.
Before the proposal was announced, Palestinians called it dead on arrival, saying it was an attempt to "finish off" the Palestinian cause.
Trump said his self-claimed plan makes the region safer and more prosperous.
Meanwhile, the President of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas severely rejected this self-claimed plan by the US president and refused to answer Trump's call in this regard.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to make comments about the plan at 19:00GMT 28 January.
Trump's initiative, whose principal author is his son-in-law Jared Kushner, follows a long line of efforts to resolve one of the world's most intractable issues. an imposed occupation of Palestine by the Israeli regime.
Palestinians have refused to engage the Trump administration and denounced its first stage - a $50bn economic revival plan announced last June.
As part of the plan announced on Tuesday, major Israeli settlement blocs inside the occupied West Bank would remain under Israeli control, senior administration officials said prior to the proposal's release.
Trump also announced that the holy city of al-Quds would be the undivided capital of Israel.
The plan also calls for a four-year freeze in Israel settlement activity, the officials said.
The Deal of the Century, presented by the US government, includes the complete annexation of al-Quds and settlements in the West Bank to the Israeli regime, ignoring the right of Palestinian refugees to return.
Muslims and Palestinians rejected such a plan claimed by the US President
Netanyahu hails Trump
Netanyahu said Trump’s plan recognized Israeli sovereignty over other large areas of Palestinian territory, including Jordan Valley, and that the deal would seek to fully disarm Hamas, a resistance movement against the Israeli occupier regime.
He called the scheme “a great plan for Israel…a great plan for peace,” and ”a realistic path” that “strikes the right balance where others have failed.”
“Given all that you have already done for Israel, I'm not surprised. You have been the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House," he told Trump.
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Regrading this, Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, also said the self-claimed plan is a means of deflecting attention from Trump and Netanyahu’s own domestic travails. “The problem is it doesn’t feel like this is the beginning of an important initiative,” Alterman said.
Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives last month and is on trial in the Senate on abuse of power charges.
Netanyahu has been convicted in three corruption cases and faces a likely trial.
Israel is the United States’ biggest regional ally and has vigorously been supported by successive American administrations.
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