Thursday, May 23, 2019

Trump’s Palestine Investment Conference Is a Cynical Farce - Bloomberg

It's a trap - when the Palestinians refuse to surrender Trump and Netanyahu will claim that the Palestinians walked away from a great deal.  Next will come more land seizures and more settlements. - gwc
Trump’s Palestine Investment Conference Is a Cynical Farce - Bloomberg:
by Hussein Ibish
 It's hard to imagine a more pointless exercise than a Palestinian investment conference without Palestinians. Talk about staging Hamlet without the prince! But that's exactly what the Trump administration is cooking up, to be held June 25-26 in Bahrain. And it's emblematic of the predetermined, intentional failure of its approach to brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace. The "Peace to Prosperity" workshop on investing mainly in Palestinian areas under Israeli occupation is meant to unveil the economic component of the U.S. peace plan, leaving political issues for later. U.S. officials say they hope for up to $68 billion in pledges***

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