Would Israel Share Part of Jerusalem With Palestinian Authority- People At the End of the Possible Peace Deal as Trump's Speech Projects? (I Don't Think So).

Briefly:

In his speech today about Jerusalem, President Trump said: "We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians. We are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved" (Worldnews, 2017).

Following this speech some in the media have interpreted this paragraph of Trump's speech as an open hatch, which indicates that there is some possibility that Israel would share some part of Jerusalem with Palestinians at the end of a possible peace deal. This issue raises an important question as follows: Would Israel share some part of its officially recognized capital Jerusalem with Palestinian authority & people at the end of a possible peace deal in the future?

My answer to this question is a big NO. Some might wonder why? This is the story. If president Trump & current Israeli government wanted to truly & honestly offer such an opportunity to Palestinians somewhere in the future, Trump could explain his deep intention in this regard with better phrase. Instead of this paragraph noted above, Trump could simply say: I declare half of Jerusalem as the official capital of Israel and other half of Jerusalem as the official capital of Palestinian State, which would be officially recognized after the final peace deal with Israel. By a paragraph like this, Trump & Israeli government could show their trustworthy & honesty to the Palestinian authority & people and by this move they encourage Palestinians to participate the peace deal negotiations much better than before.

In my opinion, the main reason behind this paragraph is not facilitating an opportunity for Palestinian people & Israel would not share part of its capital Jerusalem with anybody else not now not in the future. The main reasons of Trump behind this paragraph are as follows:

A- Killing the time for continuation of a futile peace process.

B- Deceiving Palestinians, Arab States, etc to continue with a peace negotiations, hoping to get some part of Jerusalem at the end of a possible peace deal in the future, which would in reality not happen.

C- Unilaterally deceleration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a clear violation of the international laws & the UN resolution. By using this paragraph and accordingly encouraging Palestinian to participate in the negotiations for a peace deal, the USA & Israel would try to undermine & mitigate the global condemnation & overall backlashes in different terms with regard to this illegal move that they did today.

D- This deceleration has already caused enormous anger among Muslim states & non-state actors around the world. Some of these states & non-state actors would try to retaliate in different terms in response to this move. An ongoing peace deal negotiations might prevent some states & non-state actors to perform some harsh & violently reaction against the USA & Israel.

These are the main reasons behind this part of Trump's speech. As i said in the beginning of this short note, the chance that Israel would voluntarily share some part of its capital with Palestinian people somewhere in the future is nearly impossible. If they wanted, they could have declared it today.


M. Sirani                       06.12.2017       






Reference: http://www.worldnews.easybranches.com/regions/middle-east/full-video-and-transcript-trump-s-speech-recognizing-jerusalem-as-the-capital-of-israel-508874