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St. Louis Jewish Light · St. Louis, Missouri · 26 June 2019

CP-2019-006

Peace plan: White House releases economic portion of peace plan

Peace plan: White House releases economic portion of peace plan — St. Louis Jewish Light, 26 June 2019
St. Louis Jewish Light · St. Louis, Missouri · 26 June 2019

Transcribed from the clipping

“In addition to the Gaza-West Bank link, which would inevitably cross Israeli territory, there are proposals to register Palestinian ownership of land and allow Palestinian farmers greater access to water and arable land… Kushner’s plan envisions $50 billion to be disbursed on building infrastructure and capacity in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as to promote trade and tourism partnerships with Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon… ‘A B C economics is that no monetary value can predicate or substitute economic sovereignty which is the first requirement for prosperity,’ Husam Zomlot, the Palestine Liberation Organization envoy to Washington until he was expelled last year by the Trump administration to punish the Palestinians for their boycott of peace talks, said on Twitter… Another $70 million has been set aside for the development of Palestinian arts, which often embrace a nationalist outlook, and $150 million is earmarked for the Palestinian museum near Ramallah. The museum is dedicated to celebrating Palestinian identity, including resistance to Israel. ‘Traditional Palestinian cuisine varies across regions and excites visitors,’ a segment on tourism says. ‘Each Palestinian city boasts its own trademark dishes and flavors, from Ramallah’s Rukab ice cream to the famed knafeh of Nablus.’… ‘A new flagship liberal arts and sciences university in the West Bank and Gaza’ is tagged at $500 million. Palestinian universities have over the decades nurtured the Palestinian national identity and at times have been the nexus of protest at Israel’s occupation. Israeli authorities over the years have repeatedly shuttered the universities during periods of unrest… The website features photos of schoolgirls walking by a school funded by USAID — funding Trump eliminated. It includes a picture of the Israeli and Palestinian co-leaders of the Parents Circle, a peace dialogue group for families of people killed in the conflict — a program once funded by the United States that also was cut by Trump.”

Context added by this archive

Ramallah’s Rukab ice cream and the knafeh of Nablus, in a White House document, reported in a Jewish weekly in Missouri. This is one of the few places in this archive where ordinary Palestinian life reaches an American page, and it arrives as a line item in an investment prospectus. The photographs on the plan’s own website show a school and a bereaved-families group whose American funding the same administration had cut.

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"Peace plan: White House releases economic portion of peace plan," St. Louis Jewish Light, 26 June 2019. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2019-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2019-006

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