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Newsweek: Progressive Jewish Groups Dismiss Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan as ‘Utterly Bankrupt’ and a ‘Sham’
January 28, 2020
By Jason Lemon
Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said a viable peace solution required input from both sides.
“If we have learned anything from the peace negotiations of the past three decades, it is that solutions cannot be imposed from the outside. They must be mutually agreed upon by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority,” Soifer told Newsweek in a statement. “In the absence of such negotiations, imposed measures will impede future prospects for peace.”