Plan gets mixed reactions around the world

Jordan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday the only path to a comprehensive and lasting Middle East peace was the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on 1967 lines and with east Jerusalem as its capital.

“Jordan supports every genuine effort aimed at achieving just and comprehensive peace that people will accept,” Ayman Safadi said in a statement issued after US President Donald Trump announced his administration’s proposed peace plan.

Safadi called for serious and direct negotiations that solve all final status issues, including protecting Jordan’s interests, and warned against the “dangerous consequences of unilateral Israeli measures... that aim to impose new realities on the ground.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said the US Middle East plan could be a positive step after a phone call on Tuesday between Johnson and Trump.

“The leaders discussed the United States’ proposal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, which could prove a positive step forwards.”

Trump’s Middle East peace plan is solely a deal between the United States and Israel, an adviser to Iran’s president said on Tuesday, dismissing the proposal as one of “imposition and sanctions.”

“This is a deal between the Zionist regime ( Israel) and America. Interaction with Palestinians is not on its agenda. This is not a peace plan but a plan of imposition and sanctions.”

Egypt called on Tuesday on Palestinians and Israelis to carefully consider the peace plan, with a view to resuming negotiations.

“Egypt calls on the two relevant parties to undertake a careful and thorough consideration of the US vision to achieve peace and open channels of dialog, under US auspices, for the resumption of negotiations,” a statement from the foreign ministry said.

Lebanon’s Iran- backed Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected Trump’s peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians’ rights, and accused Arab states of being complicit in a “deal of shame” that bodes ill for the region.

“The settlement project under this deal is one of the biggest dangers and aims to do away with the right of return and to rob the Palestinian people of the right to their land... and to create social and demographic tension and sedition that only serve the enemy’s interests and expansionist goals,” Hezbollah said in a statement.