US Will Not Release Middle East ‘Deal of the Century’ Peace Plan Before Israeli Election

• US Will Not Release Middle East ‘Deal of the Century’ Peace Plan Before Israeli Election
  by Reuters, https://www.scmp.com/
  * Move is designed so to keep plan’s details from becoming an issue in Israel’s September elections
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  The United States will not release the long-delayed political portion of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan before Israel’s elections next month, White House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt said on Wednesday.
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  The move, announced in a tweet by Greenblatt, keeps the plan’s details from becoming an issue in the election, in which the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, is at stake.
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  “We have decided that we will not be releasing the peace vision (or parts of it) prior to the Israeli election,” Greenblatt said on Twitter.
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  Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been working behind the scenes on the plan to resolve the decades-old Israeli Palestinian conflict, although Palestinians, who say the Trump administration is too pro-Israel, say it is dead in the water.
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