‘Trump’s Peace Plan will be Shelved If Israel Goes to Elections’

• ‘Trump’s Peace Plan will be Shelved If Israel Goes to Elections’
  by Nitsan Keidar, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
  Official reports that Jerusalem has urged Washington to hold off on releasing Mideast peace plan if new elections held.
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  With Israel on the brink of early elections, President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated Middle East peace plan, dubbed the ‘Deal of the Century’, could be placed on hold until after Israelis go to the polls and a new government is formed.
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  A senior Israeli official has told Arutz Sheva that the framework for a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is currently being drawn up by the White House, would likely be shelved in the event the Israeli government dissolves and new elections held.
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  White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt said at a closed-door meeting in London earlier this month that the ‘Deal of the Century’ plan will be released in the near future, seemingly confirming claims that President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the plan would be put on the table sometime between November and January.
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  Greenblatt and other White House officials have refused to comment on the peace plan, which reportedly has yet to be finalized. According to the senior Israeli official, the Israeli government has urged the Trump administration to hold back on releasing the peace plan in the event of early elections.
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  “The Americans understand very well the situation in Israel, and they know that it wouldn’t be right to release a peace plan in the middle of an election season, and could even be interpreted as interference in Israeli domestic affairs,” the official told Arutz Sheva.
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