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Trump to make big announcement on Middle East peace plan - Conway
Conway added that conversations regarding Israel's decision to annex 30% of the West Bank and the entire Jordan Valley are currently ongoing.
US President Donald Trump will make a big announcement on the Middle East based on current talks, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told reporters on the White House lawn on Wednesday.
Asked about the possibility of Israel extending its civil law to parts of the West Bank, Conway said: “We are having conversations, there are conversations being had. Obviously, the president will have an announcement. He's talked about this in the past, and I’ll leave it to him to give you a big announcement, and we’re very happy these talks continue.”
Conway, who is not generally involved in foreign policy matters, spoke as US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was in the US to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, special adviser to the president Jared Kushner and special representative for international negotiations Avi Berkowitz to discuss what kind of sovereignty moves from Israel the US should support.
They will also discuss whether to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to move forward even if Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz does not agree, because the prime minister has enough votes without Gantz, who supports a smaller sovereignty push. Trump is expected to make a decision on the matter.
Conway said she spoke to “someone on the ground in Israel” who said such advanced talks on sovereignty “couldn’t even be had without the last three and a half years of President Donald Trump being the best friend to Israel, to quote Mr. Netanyahu, that Israel's ever had.”
Conway spoke hours after top United Nations officials warned that Israeli sovereignty would ignite the Middle East, with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit predicting it would spark a "religious war." Conway dismissed such fears, noting that similar warnings had been issued when Trump relocated the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"The same thing was predicted, that there would be mayhem and murder and death and destruction,” Conway said. “When [the president] pulled out of the Paris [Climate] Accords, 'we're all going to die,' the next day we're going to melt to death. He moves the embassy to Jerusalem, 'the Arab world is going to disappear,' thank God that wasn't true.”
Conway added: “There is always this scare tactic, shock the conscience tactic, of all the bad that's going to happen. Thankfully, thank God, we still mention Him in our White House, and let's just say because the president wants to be…an agent for peace.”
Trump’s peace plan would allow Israel to extend sovereignty to 30% of the West Bank, including all settlements and the Jordan Valley. The rest would be reserved for the Palestinians for four years, during which they would be expected to meet certain conditions - stopping incitement and payments to terrorists, giving citizens civil rights - before establishing a state and receiving a massive aid package.
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“We are urging the Israeli government and the Israeli public to reconsider and to look beyond the sort of immediate gratification that certain groups, their ideology brings, and to think long term,” he said.
Israel should consider it wants a stable two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or does it want one state, with equal rights for Palestinians, which is what will happen if annexation moves forward, he said.