Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan 'dead before it has been proposed' claims Iain Dale

US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday his “two-state solution” to end the decades-long conflict between Palestine and Israel. Alongside President Trump during this speech was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who insisted the Middle East peace plan presented a “realistic path” forward. LBC’s Iain Dale argued that this plan would likely not succeed because it offers nothing to the Palestinians that they could support.

Mr Dale added it was a detailed plan but “virtually gave Israel everything it had ever wanted.”

He said: “Donald Trump presented his long-awaited peace plan promising to keep Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital.

“In normal circumstances, you would think when a US President comes forward with a fairly detailed peace plan you would want to feel a sense of optimism as to whether it could work.

“Whatever you think of it this it is much more detailed than I think a lot of people were expecting.

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“I feel no such optimism, it is 100 pages long so I am not going to pretend to have read it.

“But I have read the reports of it and heard what Simon Marks, our US correspondent, had to tell us about it in the news hour.

“I have come to the conclusion that sadly it is probably dead before it has even be proposed almost.

“Because there is very little in it that the Palestinians could actually grab on to and say yes this is worth negotiating.

“We heard Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the White House saying Donald Trump was the greatest President for Israel there has ever been.

“But on first sight, you look at these proposals and it gives Israel virtually everything it has ever wanted.

“If you are on the Palestinian side what do you do now?

“They did effectively reject it a few days ago before it was even published which I did think was a little bit premature.”

source: express.co.uk