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Greenblatt: Trump peace plan will focus on Israel’s security needs

Wednesday 10-October-2018

The US President Donald Trump’s peace plan will strongly reflect Washington’s commitment to Israel’s security the US Midlle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt has said.

In an interview published Monday by the English-language Times of Israel news site presidential special envoy Jason Greenblatt said the plan would “be heavily focused on Israeli security needs”.

“But we also want to be fair to the Palestinians. We have tried hard to find a good balance” he claimed. “Each side will find things in this plan that they don’t like.”

The peace plan Greenblatt said “will include a resolution to all of the core issues including the refugee issue”.

He said that it would not propose a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation as a possible solution to the conflict.

“We’re not looking at a confederation model” Greenblatt said in Monday’s interview.

US President Donald Trump said in September that he would unveil a new peace plan within months.

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