Is the "deal of the century" backfiring on Netanyahu?

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Might be wishful thinking from an anti-zionist website, but, who knows?
'Deal of the century' backfires on Israel's Netanyahu
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200203-deal-of-the-century-backfires-on-israels-netanyahu/

US President Donald Trump's "deal of the century" has backfired on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli analysts said, pointing out that has propelled the Palestinian cause to the top of the international agenda, Al-Mesryoon reported yesterday.

According to the Egyptian newspaper, Israeli analyst Ehud Yaari told Israel's Channel 12 that "the weakest president [Mahmoud Abbas] controlled the leaders of the region [Arab leaders] and dragged them to issue a statement [by the Arab League] that rejects the deal."

He added: "This is a slap for Netanyahu. This is a big achievement at the Arab level because the statement of the Arab League would pave the way ahead of the OIC and the UN to issue a similar statement. If this happened, it would mean the abortion of the deal."

Other Israeli analysts said that the deal reflects the "ignorance" of its makers regarding the situation on the ground in relation to the Israeli-Arab conflict, stressing that Netanyahu would lose the upcoming elections as a result of the deal.

Military analyst Roni Daniel said: "The American billionaires came to us, attempting to make deals with us thinking that we are puppets. They attempted to gamble with us."

He added: "The deal of the century backfired on Netanyahu. They [Arab citizens in Israel] told him not to annex the West Bank and the settlers announced they would not give 70 per cent of the West Bank to the Palestinians. Therefore, he will lose the votes of the Arabs and the settlers."

Dana Vice, the Israeli analyst of political affairs, said: "The Americans helped the Arabs and Netanyahu will never have the courage to say no to the two-state solution."

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Israelis accuse US of election meddling with timing of Trump 'peace plan'
https://www.rt.com/news/479977-israelis-complain-trump-election-meddling/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Half of Israelis believe US President Donald Trump's decision to unveil his "peace plan" last week was designed to tip the scales in favor of sitting PM Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election, a new poll reveals.

Nearly half of Israeli Jews - 46 percent - and 68 percent of Israeli Arabs deemed the American decision to unleash the "deal of the century" to be an attempt to meddle in the March 2 elections on Netanyahu's behalf, according to a poll conducted in the two days before the big reveal by the Israeli Democracy Institute.

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The percentage that resented the intrusion increased as one moved further left, with fully 78 percent of respondents on the left considered the timing to constitute foreign meddling; 69 percent of centrists also thought so. Among those self-identifying as right-wing, just 33.5 percent believed Trump unveiling his plan for the solution to the half-century-old Israel-Palestine conflict constituted election interference.

Pro-Netanyahu media are so eager to begin implementing the peace plan, which gives Israel carte blanche to officially annex illegally occupied West Bank settlements, that they have apparently turned on Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner after he advised the PM to wait until after the election to begin annexation.

Netanyahu was officially indicted on corruption and bribery charges last week, on the same day the Trump peace plan was unveiled. The two events were apparently unrelated - Netanyahu officially dropped his request for parliamentary immunity earlier that same day, allowing attorney general Avichai Mendelblit to bring the long-awaited indictments after a three-year investigation. Trump's support has not wavered, though 32 percent of respondents to the IDI poll believe the Netanyahu probe will be the deciding factor in the first Israeli election ever to go to a third ballot after two deadlocked results.

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