Sun 09 February 2020:
Turkey will not allow Trump’s Middle East plan to be put into practice and does not recognize the plan that legitimizes Israeli occupation under the auspices of the U.S., President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday.
Erdoğan noted that the so-called “Deal of the Century” completely destroys Palestinian existence and proposes the annexation of Jerusalem.
“The plan is nothing but a proposal that threatens peace and calm in the region,” he said.
Trump recently unveiled the long-awaited peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, although it had already been roundly rejected by Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was with Trump at the White House for the announcement, but no Palestinian officials were present. In a news conference, Trump said that Jerusalem will remain Israel’s “undivided capital.”
The so-called peace plan unilaterally annuls previous U.N. resolutions on the Palestinian issue and suggests giving Israel almost everything they have been demanding.
Following Trump’s decision in December 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the issue was carried to the U.N. General Assembly after a draft resolution on the matter was vetoed 14-1 by the U.S. in the U.N. Security Council.
The U.N. General Assembly passed the draft resolution with 128 countries in favor, nine against and 35 abstentions on Dec. 21, 2017, asking the U.S. to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1980, in a move never recognized by the international community, Israel annexed the entire city, claiming it as the self-proclaimed Jewish state’s “eternal and undivided” capital.
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