By Tajudeen Adebanjo
HE International Muslim Women Union (IMWU) yesterday condemned the deal proposed by the United States President Donald Trump to resolve the long lingering crisis between the Palestine and the Israel.
A statement by IMWU’s Council of Trustee member Sherifah Yusuf-Ajibade described the deal as a shame.
The plan, announced by Trump last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, was rejected outright by the Palestinians. It would give Israel most of what it has sought during decades of conflict, including nearly all Palestinian land on which it has built settlements.
She said: “With greater intransigence and arrogance, the attacks on the State of Palestine, its land, its people and its holy places, continues before the eyes of the world rulers, people, international organisations, human rights and civil society.
“What was yesterday an idea, became today an ominous plan, a deal of shame, arranged between an occupying party and an authoritarian state that imposes its hegemony on the world and the people, flouting all international norms and conventions and overcoming the rights of peoples, namely, the right to self-determination.”
According to her, the deal was a blatant conspiracy that seeks to completely eliminate the rest of the State of Palestine through its fragmentation, the confiscation of the rights of its people, their lands and their capital, and the denial of the right of the Palestinian diaspora to return to their homeland, and to finally abort the entire Palestinian cause.
“We, therefore, call first on all Palestinian parties to be united in the face of this malicious conspiracy, and we call on the international community, the Arab and Muslim states, to take a unified and courageous stand and to exert maximum pressure so that this plot never sees the light,” she said.
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The IMWU warned against the repercussions of the deal on the fate of the Palestinian people and on the future of the Arab and Muslim World.
The European Union (EU) also rejected parts of plan for the Middle East yesterday, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has strongly backed the U.S. proposal.
The EU, which often takes time to respond to international developments because of a need for unanimity among its 27 members, had said last week that it needed to study the Trump plan before it would give its verdict.
It made its conclusions public yesterday in a statement from EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who said Trump’s plan departs from “internationally agreed parameters”.
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