One of Kuwait’s top parliamentarians has been filmed throwing the peace plan presented by US President Donald Trump into a bin.
At a meeting of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Jordanian capital Amman, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al Ghanem said the proposal, which has been perceived as favouring Israel, was “destined to die” because of its bias.
“They want us to move Palestine from a central cause to a secondary one, and from the centre to the margins,” he said.
“It will not happen. History is not behind you, geography does not help you and demography does not play to your advantage. Palestine will return, Jerusalem will return sooner or later.
He was then filmed holding up the peace plan and dropping it into a bin.
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People mourn as others carry the body of Bader Nidal Nafleh (19) during his funeral n the West Bank village of Qafen near Tulkarem city. EPA -
Israeli security forces stand behind a wire fence as Palestinians demonstrate in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem following the funeral of 19-year-old Badr Nafla in the same city. AFP -
An Israeli soldier takes aim amid clashes with Palestinian protesters in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem following the funeral of 19-year-old Badr Nafla in the same city. AFP -
Palestinian protesters carry away a comrade amid clashes with Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem following the funeral of 19-year-old Badr Nafla in the same city. AFP -
Spectators watch as Palestinians carry the body of Bader Nidal Nafleh (19) during his funeral, in the West Bank village of Qafen near Tulkarem city. EPA -
Palestinians carry the body of Badr Nafla, 19, who died after reportedly being shot by Israeli forces in the neck in the midst of confrontations near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem yesterday, during his funeral in the same city. AFP -
The mother (C) of Badr Nafla, 19, who died after reportedly being shot by Israeli forces in the neck in the midst of confrontations near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem yesterday, reacts during his funeral in the same city. AFP -
Relatives of Palestinian Bader Nafilah, who was killed during clashes with Israeli troops, mourn during his funeral in Qaffin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS
“These are the documents of the so-called deal of the century,” he said, holding a bound file of papers. “Their appropriate and real place is in the dustbin of history,” he said as he threw the file, apparently into a rubbish bin next to him.
Last month, US President Donald Trump unveiled a Middle East plan for peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis that the Palestinians have rejected, saying it is biased in favour of Israel.
Under the plan, Israel would retain control of the disputed city of Jerusalem as its “undivided capital” and annex Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands.
But Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of any future state.
The plan has also been rejected by the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Palestinian officials said last week the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was heading to the UN to push for a Security Council resolution condemning Mr Trump’s peace proposals.
The resolution will almost certainly be vetoed by the US.
