[rad-green] Bloc of Muslim Nations Warns Trump Israel-Palestine Plan 'Destroys the Foundations of Peace'

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/03/bloc-muslim-nations-warns-trump-israel-palestine-plan-destroys-foundations-peace
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Common Dreams          February 3, 2020Bloc of Muslim Nations Warns Trump
Israel-Palestine Plan 'Destroys the Foundations of Peace'The Organization
of Islamic Cooperation emphasized that "peace and security in the Middle
East region, as a strategic option, will only be achieved with the end of
the Israeli occupation."by Jessica Corbett, staff writer*

[image: Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) meeting]

*Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Yusuf bin
Ahmed Al-Othaimeen (L) and Foreign Minister of the Palestine Riyad
al-Maliki attend the OIC's emergency open-ended executive committee
ministerial meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Feb. 3, 2020. (Photo: Fatih
Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)*

Joining global critics of a plan that President Donald Trump unveiled
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/not-peace-plan-it-war-plan-trump-netanyahu-deal-decried-shameful-attack-palestinian>
last
week to address the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict, the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Monday  rejected
<https://www.oic-oci.org/topic/?t_id=23180&t_ref=13923&lan=en> the "biased"
proposal and urged members states not to cooperate with U.S. efforts to
enforce it.

At a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC executive committee adopted a
resolution which decried Trump's so-called "Deal of the Century,"
reaffirmed support for the Palestinian people and the Palestine Liberation
Organization headed by Mahmoud Abbas, and emphasized that "peace and
security in the Middle East region, as a strategic option, will only be
achieved with the end of the Israeli occupation."

The 57-member body of Muslim-majority countries declared that Trump's plan
"lacks the minimum requirements of justice and destroys the foundations of
peace, including the agreed legal and international terms of reference for
a peaceful solution and the need to respect and recognize the inalienable
rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to national
independence and of Palestine refugees to return."

The resolution expressed "regret at the biased approach of the 'plan' that
fully adopts the Israeli narrative and endorses the annexation of vast
areas of the occupied land of the State of Palestine, under the pretext of
security for Israel, the illegal occupying power, in flagrant violation of
the principles of international law, the inadmissibility of the acquisition
of territory by force, the United Nations Charter, and relevant
international resolutions."

According to the resolution, Israel is "responsible for the deterioration
of the situation on the ground because of its denial of relevant
agreements, its defiance of international legitimacy and the continuation
of the policies of colonization, annexation, settlement expansion,
discrimination and ethnic cleansing, which have been perpetrated against
the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including
East Jerusalem."

Along with warning Israel against making any further moves "to consolidate
its colonial occupation in the territory of the State of Palestine," the
OIC called on the international community to reject and confront "any
action or proposal that is inconsistent with international law and relevant
United Nations resolutions."

The resolution came just two days after the Arab League also rejected
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/arab-league-holds-emergency-meeting-trump-plan-200201105251740.html>
Trump's
proposal, concluding that "it does not meet the minimum rights and
aspirations of Palestinian people," and vowed to not cooperate with the
U.S. efforts to implement the plan.

Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, announced
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/01/wake-trump-netanyahu-proposal-palestinian-authority-cuts-ties-us>
at
the Arab League meeting that in the wake of the plan's unveiling, "we've
informed the Israeli side ... that there will be no relations at all with
them and the United States including security ties." The Palestinian leader
has declined to communicate with Trump by phone or letter.

Other critics of the proposal—which Trump introduced
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/we-will-resist-it-every-way-palestinians-call-world-reject-anti-peace-deal-put-forth>
at
the White House week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his
side—have denounced it as an "annexation plan
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/not-peace-plan-it-war-plan-trump-netanyahu-deal-decried-shameful-attack-palestinian>."
Last week, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called it "shameful and disingenuous"
while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 White House hopeful, warned
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/denouncing-trump-plan-unacceptable-sanders-declares-it-time-end-israeli-occupation>
that
the plan "will only perpetuate the conflict."

The OIC resolution also came as* Agence-France Presse* reported
<https://news.yahoo.com/un-security-council-meet-kushner-mideast-plan-190645380.html>
that
the United States requested a closed-door United Nations Security Council
meeting Thursday for a presentation by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law
and senior adviser, who oversaw the development of the administration's
plan.

That meeting would occur just days before Abbas is set to arrive at the
U.N. on Feb. 11 "to express opposition to the U.S. plan and to demand
adherence to international law," *AFP* noted. "On the occasion of Abbas'
visit, the Palestinians have indicated they plan to submit a draft
resolution to the Security Council, through Tunisia, a non-permanent member
of the council."

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