"The Jordan Valley, which is vital to the national security of Israel, will remain under Israeli sovereignty." The peace plan Donald Trump, presented Tuesday at the White House in the absence of Palestinian representatives, not so far from the one proposed by Bill Clinton at the end of his term. The current republican president offers more than 80% of the territory to which the Palestinians aspire; the Democrat promised them in 1999 up to 90%. But while the so-called Clinton parameters left the door open to negotiation between the parties, the Peace for Prosperity initiativeNow sponsored, it sets extremely favorable preconditions for Israel and gives free access to the annexation of the Jewish colonies in the West Bank and the strategic Jordan Valley. "100% of the announcement had already been heard in 2012 by [Benjamin] Netanyahu," said veteran Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Wednesday. "Trump has limited himself to copying and pasting Israeli plans," said the head-on rejection of a proposed agreement that he described as partial. The thesis repeated many times by the Prime Minister of Israel on a Palestinian entity that is less than a state, demilitarized and subject to guardianship emerges in the 180-page document that the Trump Administration has taken more than two years to bring to light . Shortly after sharing the stage of the East Room of the White House, Netanyahu announced to the Hebrew press the approval of the annexation of the Jordan Valley - the Palestinian West Bank territory occupied since 1967 - at the meeting of the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday. The immediacy of the decision has been postponed due to “legal technical issues,” said a government official. In the coming days, the Kneset (Parliament) must also rule on territorial absorption, which will follow the steps taken 40 years ago with East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Trump's plan will not change the daily reality of the occupation imposed for more than half a century, but it will enshrine segregation in the West Bank between 400,000 settlers, to whom Israeli law will apply exclusively, and 2.5 million Palestinians undergoing the martial law of the occupant. These are the keys to Trump's plan. **Security** Israel's national defense is the cornerstone that holds the baptized by the United States as an agreement of the century. In the West Bank areas not annexed by Israel, a new State of Palestine may emerge without control over its borders, where "the transit of people and goods will be monitored by Israel." Also in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist movement would have to accept complete disarmament. Israel would ultimately maintain military control or, as the text of the plan says, "the essential responsibility for security." The freedom of movement of the Palestinians is at the expense of the creation of a network of separate “fast roads” and “infrastructure solutions such as tunnels and overpasses” between the enclaves that, by way of bantustans, will form the Palestinian territory between areas and settlements absorbed by Israel. This is the formula of the bypasses or exclusive roads for existing Israelis, linking the colonies in the West Bank with the territory of the Jewish State. "The security barrier [wall, fences ...] will have to realign with the new borders," says the White House. The exchange of territories offered to the Palestinians in partial compensation for the annexations will be located in the Negev Desert, next to the Egyptian border, to allow the economic recovery of Gaza after almost 15 years of isolation and three devastating wars. Palestine would also expand territorially to the south of the West Bank and to the so-called Triangle of Israeli Arab communities, located to the northwest, where localities such as Umm al Fahm are included. This population exchange, "subject to agreement between the parties," raises questions about its international legality. Jerusalem The asymmetry of the peace plan has its highest expression in Jerusalem, precisely where the symbols of the conflict and the sacred places of the three monotheistic religions are concentrated. Having recognized it as Israel's "sovereign capital" in 2017, Trump now declares it "indivisible," closing the way to the historic Palestinian claim to establish the capital of his State in the eastern part of the Holy City. As compensation, the Palestinians will be able to install the headquarters of their institutions on the periphery of East Jerusalem, in West Bank populations annexed to Jerusalem by Israel in 1980, and that have been separated by the wall erected after the Second Intifada. Netanyahu himself has confirmed the secret that the Abu Dis district will become the capital of the new state after its reintegration into the Palestinian Authority. The plan suggests changing the name to "Al Quds [Arab name of Jerusalem] or similar." Settlements The Government of Netanyahu aims to annex all Israeli colonies in the West Bank, including the most isolated within the occupied Palestinian territory. The peace plan recognizes this claim of revisionist or conservative Zionism over the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria. On the other hand, it imposes freezing during four years of settlement expansion. Together with the Jordan Valley, the incorporation of the colonies into Israel will subtract more than 30% of its territory from the West Bank. The White House initiative also guarantees Israeli control over the historic center of Hebron, where Jews and Muslims dispute the Cave of the Patriarchs or Ibrahim Mosque as a sacred place. The tortuous design of the "concept map" that accompanies the plan highlights the US assignment in favor of Israel's interest in the colonies. Refugees For the five million Palestinians registered by the United Nations among those who were forced to leave their homes in 1948 - as well as their descendants - after the birth of the State of Israel the proposal offers no solutions or right to return, beyond compensation economic that can be recognized. The economic plan Presented at the Bahrain forum in 2019, the promise to inject 50,000 million dollars [about 45,375 million euros] for 10 years is the biggest incentive presented to the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries to adhere to Trump's plan, to Despite its political insignificance. Under the direction of Jared Kushner, Trump's presidential advisor and son-in-law,the international community should multiply investments to double the Palestinian Gross Domestic Product, reduce poverty by half and place the unemployment rate below 10% with the creation of one million jobs. For now, the Palestinian economy will have to turn to the Israeli Mediterranean ports of Haifa and Ashdod to charter their exports, hoping that in the future it can have its own maritime and air terminals in the Gaza Strip. https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/29/actualidad/1580333907_798989.html