Known as “the deal of the century”, it has been written off by Palestinians as “the fraud of the century”. To negotiate or notThe so-called peace plan has been divided into two parts: economic and political. There were moments in the past 20 years, when much of my time in conflict resolution was spent working on the Palestine-Israel conflict, when the US was an honest broker trying to facilitate a peace plan with the Olmert talks (2008) Mitchell talks (2010-2011) and the Kerry Peace Plan (2013-2014). President Abbas has called for the Quartet to take over. Established in 2002, consisting of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia, its mandate was to help mediate a Middle East peace.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 02, 2020 14:26 UTC