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THE TRUMP "PEACE" PLAN IS A NONSENSE The Trump administration’s  now-published “vision for peace,”  the culmination of what the president said was “a long and very arduous process,” outlines a scenario in which Israel maintains sovereignty west of the Jordan river, a capital in an undivided Jerusalem, and control over Jewish enclaves and settlements scattered through the Palestinian territories. he Palestinians, meanwhile, get … not much. In Trump’s scheme, backed by Netanyahu, they would give up the claims of Palestinian refugees and accept  a conditions-based path to statehood  in a patchwork of territory carved up by Israeli roads and settlements. Trump’s plan cedes security control of the eastern border with Jordan wholly to Israel, calls for the dismantling of Palestinian militant groups and allots a Palestinian capital on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem — rather than in East Jerusalem proper, as envisioned by the international community and success...

                                                                          ERDOGAN IGNITES LIBYA The civil war in Libya enters a new chapter after becoming official the military intervention of Turkey in Libya in support of the Government of Tripoli. With the sending of troops to Libya, Ankara is positioned next to the Government of Faiez el Sarraj, established in the Libyan capital, and recognized by the United Nations, in front of Marshal Jalifa Hafter, considered the "strong man" of Libya, who leads the Libyan National Army (LNA) forces. Both, divided into strongly opposing administrations, control parts of the country, where they lead their own governments, the first from the west, which does so from Tripoli, with the support of the UN, and the second in the east, based in Benghazi. ...