U.S. Plan of Settlement (Donald Trump’s Vision for Peace for Palestinians and Israelis)
The article is devoted to the new plan for resolving Israeli-Palestinian contradictions entitled “Peace for Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People”. This document was presented to the public by the President of the United States Donald Trump in January 2020 in the presence of the Israeli Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu and his political rival and a leader of Kahol Lavan party Benny Gantz. This new American peace initiative provoked heated discussion on both sides of the Atlantic. In this article it is examined the views of the main “architects” of the “deal of the century” - Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman, who have made the most impact on the formation of the policy of the current administration in the Israeli-Palestinian settlement. The political components of the peace plan are highlighted with a focus on key issues such as the creation of a Palestinian state and the implementation of the “two states for two peoples” principle, the determination of the status of Jerusalem and the resolution of the problem of Palestinian refugees. The author identifies the main reasons why this initiative was immediately rejected by Palestinian leadership. The special attention is paid to the reaction to the Trump’s Peace for Prosperity plan in the United States by representatives of the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as pro-Israel lobbying groups. The author comes to the conclusion that the peace initiative of Donald Trump did not bring closer the prospect of achieving peace in the Middle East and creating a viable Palestinian state, but merely put it off.