Watch Live: Trump Unveils ‘Deal Of The Century’ Mideast Peace Plan With Netanyahu

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be delivering joint remarks from the White House, scheduled for noon EST on Tuesday. 

TRUMP PEACE PLAN CALLS FOR 2 STATES, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: AP

Trump:

• “I was not elected to do small things or shy away from big problems”
• “This vision for peace is fundamentally different from past proposals”
• 80 pages are the “most detailed proposal every put forward by far”
• Trump touted his experience as a “Deal-maker” and that what’s being proposed is a win-win “two-state solution”
• Both Netanyahu and Gantz willing to endorse vision as basis for direct negotiations with Palestinians. A joint US-Israeli committee will work on implementing conceptual map.
• US will work toward recognizing contiguous territory within the Palestinian state “when conditions for statehood are met”
• “Jerusalem will remain Israel’s undivided capital”… “But that’s no big deal because I’ve already done that for you…”
• “We will not allow a return to… relentless bloodshed… we will never allow Israel to compromise its security.”
• “I want this deal to be a great deal for the Palestinians. After 70 years this could be the last opportunity” for Palestinians to have their own state.
• Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem where the US “will proudly open a US Embassy”…
• No Israelis or Palestinians will be displaced from their homes. Palestinians’ GDP will triple over next decade if peace plan conditions implemented.

Yesterday the president met with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party rival Benny Gantz separately at the White House. Both have briefly paused campaigning ahead of Israel’s March 2 elections.

Trump had sought to assure the press that the Palestinians would “ultimately” come around to giving their support, though statements of Palestinian leadership have made this highly doubtful.

“I think it might have a chance,” he said Monday. Trump touted that both Netanyahu and Gantz “like very much” what they’ve heard of the plan thus far. President Trump described the plan has having been “many, many years in the making”. 

The administrations last big move, albeit deeply controversial, was to relocate the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in recognition of it as the official Israeli capital in 2018.

“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said. “We have something that makes a lot of sense for everybody,” the president added after describing that most people think of the prospect for Israeli-Palestinian peace as something impossible. 

Despite Trump’s measured optimism, Palestinian Authority leaders as well as Hamas have previously repeatedly said the plan would be dead on arrival.

For its part the Palestinian side has not been invited to Washington, and even threatened over the weekend to withdraw from key provisions of the 1993 Oslo Accords.