President Trump unveils long-awaited Middle East peace plan that proposes conditional path to statehood for Palestinians, while recognizing Israeli sovereignty over significant portion of West Bank; Palestinians have not been involved in the process.
Palestinians, who publicly criticized the plan, have not been involved in the process, refusing to meet with Trump administration officials since the president's December 2017 announcement that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Shortly after Trump's remarks, the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem issued a security alert warning U.S. government employees and their families not to travel to certain parts of the country due to"widespread calls for demonstrations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza" in reaction to the plan. "We're hoping to capture the imagination of the Palestinian people," Friedman said."We think we're offering them a lot. It's a significant expansion of their footprint and statehood and financing."
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