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JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser says there’s no timetable for releasing the administration’s much-anticipated Mideast peace plan.
John Bolton said Wednesday in Jerusalem that a “lot of progress” has been made, but he refused to speculate what the plan entailed or when it may be publicized.
The Trump administration recently began staffing its Mideast policy team ahead of the plan’s expected release.
Trump officials have long promised the most comprehensive package ever put forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians have indicated they consider it a non-starter given Trump’s bias toward Israel and his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as its capital.
At a West Virginia rally on Tuesday, Trump said Israel will pay a “price” for that move and the Palestinians will “get something very good” in return.
Trump’s “deal of the century” is expected to propose detailed solutions to core issues in dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians, such as borders, the future of Israeli settlements, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security.
Any peace plan would face major obstacles, though, including the increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, internal Palestinian divisions and recent cross-border violence between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and Israel.