Crepitus
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It's dead on arrival. This really isn't anything but netanyahu's wish list.As far as the Palestinians are concerned that's it, it's over.It's going nowhere. It leaves the Palestinians completely at the mercy of Israel.Complete non-starter.
Nothing but an attempt to distract folks from both crooked politician's troubles.
I don't think so - it's worth a read I think. I do have a concern that it was released prematurely to distract from the two crooked politicians troubles.
That is one concern.
Frankly I think Israel was long planning an annexation, this formalizes it in the shape of a "US sanctioned" plan and throws a rope to two troubled political leaders.
I've not finished reading it though - and there is some merit in some of the suggestions.
I can't agree with any plan that involves forced population expulsions, and I understand Israel's need for security and concerns about Hamas. Any plan must address that.
The map though, is not detailed and doesn't really show the many many settlements (some quite small) that will be "Israeli" territory surrounded by "Palestinian" territory - the measles map. This is exactly why the settlements are such a core problem for the Palestinians. The lack of contiguousness is a huge issue that I'm not sure is really understood in the plan - BUT - there might be more detail further in besides a heavy dependence on "state of the art infrastructure" and "high speed rail."
Some things have a bit of "merit" as you've said, but I out that in the category of blind chance. Even a broken closk is right twice a day.