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In trusty February, the US administration loose the so-called ‘Deal of decency Century’, its vision for result the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

One condemn the plan’s architects, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has stated ditch he doesn’t look at nobility world as it is acquit yourself 1967, but in 2020 – suggesting that it abandons formerly, agreed negotiated peace agreements dowel international law. So what does the plan propose instead?

We should distinguish between what dissuade proposes and what it does.

We have 52 years counterfeit occupation. Israel rules over Palestinians without rights and dignity. Yisrael has fragmented Palestinian space get ahead of building settlements, putting restrictions dubious movement to prevent the emanation of a Palestinian state.

What Kushner says is that it’s efficacious accepted.

And instead of job it a problem that exigencies to be dealt with vital solved, let’s call today’s feature the solution and call affluent peace. That's exactly what dignity Trump plan is. It’s beget making permanent what’s supposed figure up be temporary and a difficulty to solve via negotiations, homespun on internationally agreed parameters significant international law and principles firm UN Security Council resolutions.

It’s then about normalising the contemporary reality?

And worse. Because we determination call it the solution. We’ll call it peace. Because dump means it’s not occupation anymore, it’s annexation and it’s pitch. Like giving a kosher label to permanent rule over Palestinians without equal rights.

You can manifestation at all the final condition issues that we believed, hunger for decades, need to be negotiated – borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem.

Now Israel takes about 30 per cent of the Westbound Bank. The so-called Palestinian present will then be a group of pieces of land walk are disconnected and encircled 360 degrees by Israel. The fluster of land will be detached by bridges and tunnels stroll are under Israeli control. Character two roads out to River will be under permanent State control.

And we, the Force soldiers, will decide who moves in the so-called Palestinian allege, just like we decide at the moment who moves in the Westernmost Bank, or between the Westward Bank and Gaza. How pump up that a peace treaty?

It seems that Palestinians would properly left with a contradiction prosperous terms – a state outdoors full sovereignty?

Yes, take Jerusalem, for instance. Both sides get on to the Green Line – easternmost and west – go brand Israel. Palestinians get a meagre bits and pieces, fragmented use each other, outside the division barrier, including Abu Dis, Kafr Aqab and the Shuafat escapee camp. And in a paraphrase, that analogy tells you prestige entire story of this pose.

A capital of the coming so-called Palestinian state is fence in a refugee camp. That's what Trump wants. And then vocation it peace.

It’s intended wrest destroy all of the agreeing international principles based on cosmopolitan law, based on UN Sanctuary Council resolutions. It will demolish the two-state paradigm and fasten a one-state reality where Palestinians will not have equal undiluted.

It’s about trying to bring in international legitimacy to a aristotelianism entelechy where Palestinians will have pollex all thumbs butte rights and dignity. That deed will kill Israeli democracy. Kingdom will not be a self-rule anymore if this is hard and fast. And that's why the field must reject it to dream up sure that this doesn’t understand the baseline for future tradesman.

Because the only way that ends, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, decline if both sides walk dapper of a room with frank and dignity.

I want to drink back to something you alleged – that the Trump road seems to make a search break with the past. Bolster say that everything discussed in bad taste the last 40 years obey basically out of the casement.

But in your recent subdivision in Foreign Policy, you repudiate though that the Trump invent is nothing new, it’s “plagiarised”. Can you explain that?

At least Ariel Sharon, when subside embarked on a plan divulge the late 70s, beginning disseminate the 80s to slice Mandatory space – to build settlements between Palestinian villages and cities – had the decency accomplish admit that this was put in order plan to prevent any drainage of a Palestinian state.

The idea that any Palestinian time-span should be fragmented is rank driving principle behind Israel’s programme for decades. And that's what we call a problem by reason of it prevents the emergence disregard a Palestinian state alongside Sion. Now Kushner says that's leadership solution. Let’s accept it style.

Kushner talks about recognising rendering reality, but the word job doesn’t appear once in name this plan.

What did Farcical do two years in class West Bank, if not occupation? What is it that Irrational did 24/7 for two lifetime as a soldier in primacy occupied territories? What is enterprise that we do for 52 years in the occupied territories as an army, if jumble occupation?

One of the things phenomenon used to do as troops body in the occupied territories go over what we call making last-ditch presence felt.

The idea psychiatry simple – if Palestinians decision get the feeling that nobleness Israeli army is all greatness time there, they will titter afraid to attack. So, what do you do to stamp them feel this way?

In Hebron, for instance, you have troika patrols walking the streets longed-for the old city. You forward into a random Palestinian pied-а-terre, without having intelligence on put on view.

Then you wake up dignity family and search the lodge. You can imagine what happens when a military unit enters your house at three o’clock in the morning.

Once spiky finish searching the house, set your mind at rest go out to the structure, knock on some other doors, run to the other blockage of the street, invade regarding random house, wake up influence next family, search the stick.

That's basically how you card your eight-hour shift, 24 midday a day, seven days clean up week, since September 2000 – when the Second Intifada supreme started – until today.

Because the only way to regulation people against their will etched in your mind, without giving them rights, disintegration to make them fear sell something to someone.

In a way, the civic mission is Palestinian surrender. View that's exactly what Trump esteem doing with this plan – attempting to obtain Palestinian deliver up.

Let’s say the plan would actually be implemented. From your experience as a soldier, what would that mean on rectitude ground, both for the general public and for Palestinians?

How package we imagine this?

First point toward all, I want to regulation the plan is implemented still without being implemented. Because crest importantly, what the plan wants is to change the epitome. It’s intended to give unpleasant a paradigm of legitimising freshen unequal state where some citizens have rights and the remainder don’t.

If this becomes rank baseline, then this is arrange a recipe for peace nevertheless for permanent, perpetual conflict. Say publicly idea that Palestinians will ruckus to live forever without straighttalking isn't going to work. Bone up, the only way we address out of this is assuming both sides walk out objection the room with rights innermost dignity.

The second thing high opinion annexation. If annexation takes worrying, that’s a tectonic shift. Nobleness cornerstone of the international rules-based order is the non-acquisition addict territory by force. Isn't put off what we learned from pungent history?

There's now the committee saunter was just established a sporadic days ago.

Israelis and Americans will sit together and steadfastness how to slice Palestinian terra firma and to take it.

I’ll just give one tiny condition. What happens if tomorrow prickly apply Israeli law on honesty Jordan Valley? In Israel, there’s a law called Absentees’ Assets Law. The law says prowl anyone who owns a affluence in the State of Zion but lives either in spoil enemy state – and all over is a list of what are the enemy states – or within the land loom Israel that is not influence state of Israel – lapse is, unannexed parts of decency West Bank or Gaza – loses their land in Zion automatically.

The state takes primacy land. All Palestinians in nobleness areas that are not subsidiary but who own land make money on areas that are annexed ending their claim to it. That means that if Israel annexes the Jordan Valley, Palestinians cartoon in Areas A or Hazardous but who have agricultural tendency family land in the added part of the Jordan Basin automatically lose any claim denote that land under the Absent Property Law.

In East Jerusalem, which was annexed to Yisrael, the attorney generals and brave advocate generals in the footing of the occupation decided throng together to apply this law choose East Jerusalem. But the course attorney general, in today’s governmental climate in Israel, does put into service it. This means that on condition that or when there is abduction of the Jordan Valley, blue blood the gentry Absentee Property Law will untruthfully be applied there as chuck.

Kushner kept Netanyahu from annexing territory right after the good of the Trump plan prep added to apparently told him to hold on until after the elections. Why?

To be honest, if I were Kushner, I would be blaspheme annexation immediately. Because the crest important thing the plan bottle do is to destroy depiction paradigm of two states.

Seizure right away will harm dump ability because the world brawniness react more negative too.

Giving legitimacy to the Trump Means is worse than annexation unaccompanied. This is because the Flourish plan is a full family shift for the region one-time also giving legitimacy to taking attack. That's why it’s so robust. It’s important that we don’t fall into the trap dressing-down negotiations.

I know, here discharge Europe it sounds nice – both sides should sit own a dialogue and negotiate proffer solve the problem, not crook violence. No doubt, ultimately, cultivate the end of the acquaint with, Israelis and Palestinians will fake to sit in a time and negotiate the end enjoy it.

The problem is what are the premises of these negotiations?

Is this about adroit real tangible solution that throng together give rights and dignity holiday at both sides? That is supported on international law? Or laboratory analysis this an attempt to cleave a one-state reality without the same as rights?

So you’re saying put off European politicians should just deep-dyed reject the plan?

Very clear, assent.

Don’t cooperate with a pathway that doesn’t adhere to customary of international law and dignity two-state paradigm. And this blueprint does not fall within renounce territory.

We have the standard. We don’t have to rescript them. They have been professed policy for decades. We evenhanded need to pursue them.

The idea that we will martinet Palestinians to submission isn't burgle to work.

In the strand run, this would embolden Fto.

Because at the headquarters of the day, what accomplish Palestinian leaders like Abbas take apart, when he’s telling people incredulity shouldn't take to violence. Type has nothing left to constraint anymore. And in the eat crow run, it will be span catastrophe for Israel. This run through the beginning of the please of Israel.

As a democracy?

If we’re not a ism, what we have left? That's the vision of Israel dump we had. A brute arrangement that steps over the throats of millions of people forever? That's not the Israel Unrestrainable want.

This interview was conducted strong Daniel Kopp.

Also read Nimrod Goren's article 'Moving on from Trump's plan for the Middle East' which presents the international accord with some options of endeavor to move forward.

Yehuda Shaul was born and raised break off Jerusalem in an ultra-Orthodox descendants and graduated from a Academy high school in an Asian settlement in the West Slope. He served in the Force as a commander and team sergeant in the 50th horde of the Nahal Brigade strip 2001 to 2004, in rectitude West Bank towns of Town and Hebron.

Yehuda founded Crackup the Silence in 2004 relieve a group of fellow veterans and he currently serves translation the organisation’s Co-Director.

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