About a month before Israeli elections scheduled for March 2, President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell with his “deal of the century,” unveiling his diplomatic plan for peace on Jan. 28. The economic components had been presented at a “workshop” convened by the Trump administration in Bahrain last June.
Trump's plan has resurrected words in the Israeli discourse that had disappeared from the local political lexicon in recent years, among them “diplomatic negotiations,” “peace,” and “Palestinian state.” With the subject of peace once again on the table, however, instead of the Israeli left, for whom peace with the Palestinians is to a large extent its raison d’être, leave it to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finds ways to derive usefulness from this turn of events.
