2024-11-27
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I'm Thomas Friedman.
I'm the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.
You know, people might not believe this, and I'm sure most people have even forgotten it, but in his first term as president, Donald Trump produced the most detailed plan for a two state solution between Israelis and Palestinians since Bill Clinton.
I think there's a place for Donald Trump to find his way into the diplomatic history books by implementing that plan for the Middle East.
Invite both parties to Camp David and just tell them you can come on one condition, that you treat this as the floor for your negotiations for two states, for two indigenous people.
When President Trump put forward his peace plan back in 2020, it posited that Israel could annex 30% of the west bank, roughly that the palestinians would get 70% of the west bank for a state of their own, plus all of the Gaza Strip and two chunks of the Israeli Negev Desert.
It wouldn't be a one to one trade, but probably about a one to two trade.
And in addition, Palestinians would get a capital outside of Jerusalem.
That was the basic plan that Trump put forward at the time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally embraced the Trump plan, but never brought it to his cabinet.
And the reason he didn't bring it to his cabinet was that he had a very right wing cabinet.
And it was not at 70% for a Palestinian state.