House Democrats slammed President Donald Trump’s recently released Middle East peace plan, signing on to a letter protesting both the content and timing of the plan, warning that it would doom the two-state solution.
Roughly 100 congressional Democrats have signed on to the letter, the Jewish Insider reported, which was drafted by congressmen Alan Lowenthal of California and Andy Levin of Michigan
The signatories include Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Joe Kennedy III (D-MA), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
The letter slams the Trump peace plan for allowing Israel to apply sovereignty to roughly
30% of Judea and Samaria, and to retain all Israeli towns in the area. The signatories claimed that given the conditions included in the plan, and the support for Israeli sovereignty in large parts of Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian state envisioned by the peace plan actually “does not constitute statehood”, and would in fact make a “genuine two-state solution impossible”.
“A U.S. proposal that promotes unilateral annexation and jettisons a real two-state solution is bad for Israel, for the shared values that have historically undergirded the U.S.-Israel relationship, and for the bipartisan consensus in the U.S. on the importance of that relationship, which Israel has long understood to be a crucial strategic asset.” (Read More)
