Macron-France To U.S.: Release Your Peace Plan Or We’ll Release Ours

• France To U.S.: Release Your Peace Plan Or We’ll Release Ours
  by TOVAH LAZAROFF, https://www.jpost.com/, 23 Oct 2018
  If US President Donal Trump does not present his peace plan in the coming weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron will present his own peace plan.
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  France denied Israeli media reports that it warned the US it would promote its own peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if US President Donald Trump fails to publish his plan soon. French allegedly pressured Trump to release his plan within a number of weeks after the American midterm elections on November 6. 
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  News of the French ultimatum was published on both Channels 10 and 2. It was based on closed door testimony by Foreign Ministry Political Director Alon Ushpiz to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
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  In its report, Channel 10 said it had spoken with two Knesset members and Chanel 2 said it had quizzed four Knesset members about the story before publishing it. Their reports were fairly identical in regard to the issue of the peace plan.
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  Former French president Francois Hollande had published a peace initiative and held an international gathering on the subject during the last days of the Obama administration.
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  French President Emmanuel Macron has not continued to promote the plan, since immediately upon taking office Trump declared that he planned to pursue a resolution to the conflict. The French plan called for a two-state solution to the conflict, at the pre-1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. The French report expects Trump will publish the plan after the midterm elections. Ushpiz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he did not have details regarding the plan.
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