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Now President Trump has unveiled his plans for what he claims is a credible the peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians including a promise to keep Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital?

MR. Trump announced the proposals at the White House alongside the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

President Said:

The president said the deal would work but no Palestinian officials were involved and tonight they rejected the proposals as a conspiracy now at the heart of the conflict is a dispute over land ever since the creation of the State of Israel back in 1948.

The UN backs the creation of a separate Palestinian state but Israeli West Bank settlement on land captured back in 1967 has complicated that so-called two-state solution.

Israel also captured the eastern half of Jerusalem which the Palestinians want as the capital of a future State a school I to our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen for the latest in Washington yeah thanks very much.

President Trump says he has a whole new way of making peace after years of failed negotiations giving Israel the security it deserves giving Palestinians the state they crave excuse me but the critics of what he's proposing have used words like the coercion of the Palestinians to describe what he's talking about.

And even the word apartheid so the stakes are high but the chances of things getting better are low in the East Room of the White House it felt more like a party than a press conference Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated each other.

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Their entourage is clapped and looped as everyone knows I have done a lot for Israel moving us Embassy to Jerusalem recognizing the Golan Heights and admittedly perhaps most significantly getting out of the terrible Iran nuclear deal.

And now comes a document that attempts to seal Israel's victory in a century-long conflict which Palestinians will read a surrender terms, not a peace proposal it almost exactly replicates Mr. Netanyahu's deepest beliefs about Israel's security.

Its right to the land most of the rest of the world says is occupied Palestinian territory.

Benjamin Netanyahu said:

For too long far too long the very heart of the Land of Israel where our patriarch sprayed our prophets preached,

And our kings ruled has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory well today Mr. President, you are puncturing this big lie in Gaza tonight Palestinians demonstrated their side has been deeply divided opposition to the trump document could finally unite them the Palestinians were already boycotting the Trump administration.

Because of its root and branch support for Israel the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wasn't a party to the proposals and rejected them straight away.

Mahmoud Abbas Said:

I say to Trump and Netanyahu Jerusalem is not for sale.

All our rights are not for a bargain they're arguing about land captured by Israel in 1967 Middle East war for a generation the international consensus has been that no peace is possible without a Palestinian state on the land with a capital in Jerusalem.

The land is sliced up by walls wire and checkpoints the Trump plan wants to throw out the old consensus to offer a sort of state to the Palestinians if they agree to restrictions approved by Israel.

Israel has a chance to get bigger with what looks to be a green light to annex the territory at once like here in the Jordan Valley the timing suits the two leaders a distraction from elections.

And serious charges high crimes and misdemeanors for Trump bribery and corruption for Netanyahu this may be the deal of the century for the Israeli government,

But it's not for the Palestinians it could create a sense of frustration anger and hopelessness which in such a combustible part of the world is dangerous.

Jeremy Bowen  at the White House at least 10 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli forces amid protests against the plan that's been unveiled in Washington the demonstrations in the Israeli occupied West Bank came as the Palestinian leader.

Mahmoud Abbas:

Mahmoud Abbas said that his response to the Trump deal was a thousand times no our international correspondent or Nigeria has spent the day in the West Bank gauging Palestinian opinions on the planet Bethlehem before sunrise Palestinians rushing to a day's work in Israel those lucky enough to have permits movement is tightly controlled that's life under Israeli occupation,

And few here today we're expecting new dawn from the White House do you have any hope for the peace plan from Donald Trump no nononono says Ibrahim a father of seven,

They don't want to give the Palestinians their rights the plan has failed even before it's announced a view echoed over coffee in Ramallah that's an hour away or triple that.

If there are delays at Israeli checkpoints here we met some of the Oslo generations Palestinians who grew up with the Peace Accords signed in 1993.

They say the Trump deal ends that era and it’s time for a new strategy.

it finally spells the death of the peace the process that many assume would lead to a Palestinian state and instead opens the door for us as a new generation to begin building a type of resistance movement based on what Nelson Mandela stood,

So this is the end of the peace process as we know it this is the end of what I would call the illusion of a peace the process do you think you will still be living under occupation in 10years’ time in 20 years’ time.

Everything all Israeli policies against Palestinians is happening at such high speed that it's terrifying to think of where we're gonna be five years from now and tonight on the streets of Ramallah, a vow to return to the Intifada the Palestinian uprising the crowd here was small sound and fury perhaps but also weariness and resignation.