The Day Netanyahu’s Doctrine Was Presented as a U.S. Peace Plan

• The Day Netanyahu’s Doctrine Was Presented as a U.S. Peace Plan
  by Aluf Benn, https://www.haaretz.com/
  Trump is spoiling for a Palestinian surrender; the world is mum and Abbas is isolated; the scenario of a Democratic president; and how Bibi blazed in Washington. Four comments on the ‘deal of the century’
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  1. The capitulation
  The “deal of the century” proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump demands that the Palestinian national movement surrender unconditionally, like Germany and Japan did at the end of World War II. According to Trump, peace will be achieved only if the Palestinians stop recounting the “narrative of the past” and look forward, toward the diplomatic recognition and economic prosperity that awaits them. It worked for Germany and Japan: They gave up Nazism and imperialism, respectively, along with their status and ambitions as military and maritime superpowers, placed their security in the hands of the United States – and have enjoyed decades of abundance and economic stability ever since. The Trump scheme offers the Palestinians a similar deal with Israel, the neighboring states and the international community.
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  Trump is effectively saying to the Palestinians: You’ve lost the war, and it’s time you came to terms with that. The Palestinian national movement, heretofore based on the rejection of Zionism as a colonialist, racist, criminal movement, is now being required to supplant the national idea, the textbooks and the articles in their official media outlets, and to adopt a new story: Zionism is a movement that brought the Jewish people back to this land after thousands of years of exile, and the Palestinians are the poor neighbors of the Jewish state, who will enjoy “independence minus” if they make do with a limited territory, sliced up by settlements and controlled on all sides – whether from the air or via radio frequencies – by the Israel Defense Forces. If they can make that mental switch, they will get a capital in Abu Dis with a U.S. embassy, full membership in the United Nations and $50 billion.
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