(JP) – The Trump administration now believes it has a window of just a year to roll out its plans for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, after Israel’s elections in April and before the launch of the US 2020 presidential campaign the following summer. According to three senior aides, US President Donald Trump’s peace team is negotiating out a timetable for the release of their plan that calibrates with these
election markers and also provides a substantial runway for negotiations, should the plan take off. That has led some in the administration to consider releasing the plan as soon as possible after Israelis vote on April 9. Their short timetable might conflict with efforts in Israel to form a governing coalition right after voting– a process that could take several weeks. US officials declined to comment as to whether that process would affect their launch of the peace plan. READ MORE
