Trump’s peace plan rejected as ‘shameful’

DONALD TRUMP’S plan for ending the Israel-Palestine conflict has been branded “insulting”, “shameful” and “a disgrace” by Palestinian refugees.

At refugee camps across the Lebanon, Palestinians staged strikes, protests and sit-ins a day after US President Donald trump revealed the details of the plan.

It was denounced as ridiculously lop-sided, with Palestinians saying it gives them no rights.

Sawsan Warde, a middleaged Palestinian woman at the crowded Bourj al-Barajneh camp in the Lebanese capital Beirut, said.”Trump’s words mean nothing to us. This isn’t his land for him to bargain or sell or give to someone else,.

“He can give the Jewish people or Netanyahu a part of his land but Palestine is for us. It was, it is and will always be ours.”

The words reflected the deep bitterness felt by Palestinians at the plan unveiled by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday.

It supports the Israeli position on nearly all of the most contentious issues in the decades-old conflict and falls far short of Palestinian demands, leaving them with disjointed areas and allowing Israel to annex its settlements in the occupied territory.

Among Palestinian refugees, many likened the plan to the Balfour Declaration, the UK Government’s promise in 1917 to create a Jewish home in Palestine.

Protesters burned tyres and pictures of Trump and Netanyahu.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war around its creation. They and their descendants now number about five million across the region. Palestinians believe they have the “right of return” which was explicitly rejected in the Trump plan.