NPR published a report on a couple of comments from leading former government officials of Israel. Asekd for his opinion about Trump’s proposal, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: “On the day that I will see American soldiers coming in great numbers to Gaza, I will then make up my mind how serious it is. Every party involved except for Israel is completely against it.”
“It is utterly unrealistic, and it reflects a total lack of understanding of the historical process of where these Palestinians come from, what is their collective identity,” former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told NPR. “ It’s somebody that came from the outer space and tries to impose a solution which is, you know, detached from a context.”
“This man is an actor in a global theater, and this has been his tactics, playing big, drawing the world’s attention to what he says, getting his rivals out of balance, and eventually something will happen that goes his way,” Ben-Ami said. “Maybe this is a tactical sort of move that tries to say a big thing in order to eventually get a more modest solution.”
