Palestinian PM Rejects Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan

AMANPOUR.:
Okay, so let me ask you, it appears that the Palestinian authority has categorically rejected out of hand this plan, is that correct? Do you reject it or do you see it as a basis for negotiations that you can then speak to the Israelis, speak to the United States and try to negotiate a better deal or or better parameters?

SHTAYYEH:
Well, look, this is this a plan that has been rejected by the Palestinian leadership simply because the plan does fully give Jerusalem to the Israelis and it does create a partition of the of the time and the space. It keeps the Jewish settlements on the Palestinian territory. 720,000 Jewish settlers will stay illegally and they are legitimately under Palestinian territory. It does not give backterritory of 67 and most of all, it does make the Palestinian territory shrink by 40% at a time when OSLO agreement was supposed to give all the Palestinian territory to the Palestinians that makes the Palestinian state. All America offered six to one the swab or Hutto hoot Barak offered one to nine. Now what president Trump is actually offering is simply to deduct 30% of the Palestinian territory. Look at this map. This is the Palestinian territory occupied in 67 which is the whole of the West bank and Gaza. This is what residents Trump is offering, which is only a 70% or 60% of that 22% of what used to be called Palestine. This is, this base blend is simply creating Ballis Tinian Bantu stands within the state of Israel. And this is what the reality will look like. So there is no way on earth that Palestinians will accept this reality that the, the best blend of Mr. Trump is talking about.