{"id":29504,"date":"2019-01-17T06:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29504"},"modified":"2019-01-17T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:24:38","slug":"us-sees-palestinian-state-on-most-of-west-bank-some-of-east-jerusalem-israeli-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29504","title":{"rendered":"US sees Palestinian state on most of West Bank, some of East Jerusalem \u2014 Israeli TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

US sees Palestinian state on most of West Bank, some of East Jerusalem \u2014 Israeli TV<\/h2>\n
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\nJERUSALEM: Israeli television said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump\u2019s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the occupied West Bank, with a capital in East Jerusalem \u2014 but not including its holy sites.
The White House, which has kept details of the plan under wraps and said its release could still be months away, dismissed the report by Israel\u2019s Reshet 13 TV as inaccurate speculation.
Citing what it said was a source briefed by the Americans, the television report said the plan would entail Israel annexing Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank while isolated settlements would either be evacuated or their construction halted.
Trump wants the proposed Israeli moves to be supplemented by territorial swaps with the Palestinians, and for East Jerusalem\u2019s walled Old City \u2014 site of major Jewish, Muslim and Christian shrines \u2014 to be under Israeli sovereignty but with the joint management of the Palestinians and Jordan, the report said.
It said \u201cmost Arab neighborhoods\u201d in East Jerusalem would be under Palestinian sovereignty as a future capital.
Israel calls all of Jerusalem its \u201ceternal and undivided capital,\u201d a status not recognized internationally. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem, including the Al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City, as capital of a future state.
The report made no mention of the fate of Palestinian refugees, another core dispute in the decades-old conflict, or of how the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of Hamas Islamists opposed to peace with Israel, might fit into the plan.
Israeli and Palestinian officials did not immediately respond to the Reshet 13 report.
Trump\u2019s Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, a main architect of the plan along with the president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, said in a message on Twitter the report \u201cis not accurate.\u201d He did not specify, however, what in the report was incorrect.
\u201cSpeculation about the content of the plan is not helpful Very few people on the planet know what is in it … for now,\u201d Greenblatt wrote. \u201cPeddling false, distorted or biased stories to the media is irresponsible & harmful to the process.\u201d
In separate remarks to reporters, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, predicted that the Trump plan would not be released before an Israeli election on April 9.
Opinion polls predict an easy win that would secure a fifth term for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a rightist whose US-sponsored peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stalled in 2014.
\u201cFrom what we understand, it will not be presented before the election,\u201d Danon said. \u201cIt\u2019s a smart decision because we don\u2019t want it to become the issue of the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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