Regional Security: President Trump’s Peace To Prosperity Plan For Israel-Palestine

R Fajar Grahananto, Susilo Adi Purwantoro, Herlina J.R. Saragih

Abstract


Over the years, the Middle East has been a serious matter for the U.S. in order to maintain regional security. Involved in a long-standing dispute, the U.S. has become the mediator for peace between Israel and Palestine. As regards, President Donald Trump showed the enthusiasm to achieving solution through his plan officially entitled “Peace to Prosperity”. In the making of the peace plan, there have been contributions of Arab states which help to expand the vision of Trump administration in seeing the conflict. Despite of the number of articles arguing on the bias of the U.S. foreign policy towards Palestine, the Peace to Prosperity plan appeared to be the clear solution to end the ongoing conflict. The proposal attempts to project social potential and economic opportunity in order to bring peace to Palestinians, Israelis and the region as a whole. It also sought for the improvement of the Palestinian people living standard and social situation including self-determination. The purpose of this article is to examine the effectiveness of the newest Trump’s Middle East plan that has involved Palestinian aspirations. This research will use Neoliberalism’s perspective to analyze the approach of Trump’s Mideast plan that is arguably providing more development than his predecessors for the peace process of Israel and Palestine. The result of discussion indicates that peace will arrive with this proposed plan which does not only rely on the use of military power.


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Trump; Israel; Palestine; Peace; Middle East

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v36.2.4980

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