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Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-peace-plan-unlikely-to-lead-to-major-escalation-but-idf-is-taking-precautions/

U.S. Peace Plan Unlikely to Lead to Major Violence in West Bank

(Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Yaakov Lappin - Col. (res.) Moshe Elad, one of the founders of security coordination between the IDF and the PA, said he doubted any significant popular violence would occur following the announcement of the U.S. peace plan. "The Palestinians are...also looking at Gaza; they see the conditions there, and they do not want to reach that. The conditions for them are good, and they fear closures and disorder disrupting their lives." The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank had assumed that future talks would resume where past talks left off, based on the idea of establishing a state roughly on the 1967 Green Line. "The Palestinians are not prepared for the new proposal," Elad noted.

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