The peace proposal announced by President Trump would give Israel most of what it has sought during decades of conflict, including the disputed holy city of Jerusalem and nearly all the occupied land on which it has built settlements. Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People, commonly known as the Trump peace plan, is a proposal by the Trump administration to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Donald Trump formally unveiled the plan in a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020; Palestinian representatives were not invited. The plan was authored by a team led by Trump's son-in-law, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner. Both the West Bank settlers' Yesha Council and the Palestinian leadership rejected the plan: the former because it envisaged a Palestinian state, the latter arguing it is too biased in favor of Israel. The plan is divided into two parts, an economic portion and a political portion. On June 22, 2019, the Trump administration released the economic portion of the plan, titled "Peace to Prosperity". The political portion was released in late January 2020.
Critics of the plan, including all the leading Democratic presidential candidates , have denounced it as a "smokescreen" for annexation. Proposed benefits to the Palestinians from the plan are contingent on a list of conditions that have been denounced by opponents of the plan as "impossible" or "fantastic". An editorial of the Los Angeles Times stated that the plan had arrived 'dead in the water'. The New York Times's regional correspondents state that the plan's rejection of a return of Jerusalem to the Palestinians and complete removal of settlements was a "non-starter" for the Palestinian Authority.
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