US Middle East Peace Plan

On January 28, 2020, President Trump revealed the US Middle East Plan intended to resolve
generations of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In the days that followed, there have been many responses to the plan. Some of them are listed below.
The purpose of this post is to gather these statements in one place for easy access.

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Kairos Canada, member Churches and partners call on Canada
to publicly reject the U.S. administration’s “Peace to Prosperity Plan”

KAIROS joins member churches and ecumenical partners around the world in denouncing President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” or “Peace to Prosperity Plan” as a flagrant violation of international law that will entrench occupation and lead to greater suffering of the Palestinian people.

Visit this site for more letters by member churches and ecumenical partners.

The United Church of Canada

Palestinian and Israeli partners are asking churches and Christians to categorically reject this plan.Take Action
Call or write to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and/or your local member of parliament and raise your concerns

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC):


Trump’s “deal of the century” with Israel sustains apartheid and injustice for Palestinians .

This is not a negotiation for peace, this is the imposition of change on Palestinians. But when Palestinians inevitably reject this plan, their rejection will be held up by Netanyahu and Trump as a reason for seizing even more control and furthering the repression faced by Palestinians.   

Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land

These proposals have to be based on equal rights and dignity. The plan “Peace-to-Prosperity” presented yesterday does not contain these conditions. It does not give dignity and rights to the Palestinians. It is to be considered a unilateral initiative, since it endorses almost all the demands of one side, the Israeli one, and its political agenda. On the other hand, this plan does not really take into considerations the just demands of the Palestinian people for their homeland, their rights and dignified life.

The Moderator's letter to the PM

The Moderator of The United Church of Canada, the Right Rev. Richard Bott, has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging Canada to maintain a principled policy position in accordance with international law, and to strongly oppose the United States’ Middle East “peace plan.”

You are invited to thank the Moderator for his letter.

B'Tselem

There are many ways to end the occupation, but the only legitimate options are those based on equality and human rights for all. This is why the current plan which legitimizes, entrenches and even expands the scope of Israel’s human rights abuses, perpetuated now for over 52 years, is utterly unacceptable.

Patriarchs and Heads of Local Churches in Jerusalem

affirm our strong devotion to achieving a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on the international legitimacy and the relevant UN resolutions and in a manner that guarantees security, peace, freedom and dignity to all of the peoples of the region.

We also call upon all Palestinian political parties, factions, and leaders to meet to discuss all disputes, end the state of internal conflict, terminate division, and adopt a unified stand towards concluding the state building based on plurality and democratic values.

Kairos Palestine Statement on
The American declaration on
Peace in the Middle East

The position announced by the U.S. administration regarding what they termed as the ‘deal of the century’ was in fact an insult to history, humanity, the Palestinian people, and the American dignity itself.

The American-Israeli proposal is premised on consolidating Israeli control over all of Palestine’s land, making sure that the Palestinian people are subjected to this control, in return for economic promises that are closer to a deal for buying the people and their spirit with money.

This proposal seeks to legitimize the Israeli occupation and revoke the history of the Palestinian people and their legitimate inalienable rights, particularly the right of return for the Palestinian refugees and the right to self-determination in an attempt to eliminate the Palestinian question completely and definitively.

UN Special Rapporteur on
Human Rights in the oPt.

The Special Rapporteur expressed alarm that the plan announced this week by the United States would discard virtually every major principle of international law governing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "This plan would turn the rules-based international order on its head and would permanently entrench the tragic subjugation of the Palestinians that is already existing on the ground," he said. "The abandonment of these legal principles threatens to unravel the long-standing international consensus on the conflict, favouring realpolitik over rights, power over justice and conflict management over conflict resolution."