The Deal of the Century; Aspects, Goals and Implications

Since the Zionist regime occupied Palestine and established Israel government, the United States of America has proposed different plans and ideas to solve the Palestinian-Zionist and Arab-Israeli conflicts. The Zionist regime has always tried to impede the formation of Palestinian gov-ernment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by its plan of an 'alternative homeland' for the Palestin-ians. The Oslo Agreement (Accords) officialized solution of formation of two separate govern-ments in Palestine, and therefore eliminated other solutions such as the plan of an 'alternative homeland' from the list of regional and international solutions, which, of course, meant the Pales-tinians were settling for the lowest of their national rights in return for losing more than half the historical land of Palestine. With different American governments' failures in implementing the solution of two governments within one land, the peace negotiations of the past two decade came to a halt. At the end of Barak Obama's office tenure, a new solution based on territorial ex-change of a part of the West Bank with a part of Sinai Peninsula was offered; however, the solu-tion wasn't really popular which was partly because of the ambiguity of the dimensions and part-ly tensions between Obama and Netanyahu over the issue of Israel's continuation of building set-tlements. After Trump came to power in the United States, this idea was proposed by him in a totally radical frame named the "Deal of the Century" and was launched by announcing Jerusa-lem as Israel's capital. Although, now it has been a year and a half since they proposed it, the as-pects of the deal is still unclear; however, we can analyze and evaluate the aspects, goals and im-plications of it solely based on the information passed on to us by some Arab and Palestinian of-ficials.

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