Trump speaks for the first time about the reasons for the failure of the “deal of the century”
The former US President Donald Trump said that one of the reasons for his failure to achieve the “deal of the century” between Israel and the Palestinians is that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “never wanted” to make peace with the Palestinians.
This came according to a report of conversations with Trump published by the Israeli Walla website.
Trump made these statements in an interview with Walla journalist Barak Ravid in April about his new book, “Trump’s Peace: Abrahamic Agreements and Revolution in the Middle East”.
The book includes a detailed description of Trump’s efforts to reach an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and how the failure to reach such a deal led to the Ibrahim Agreements and normalization between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.
Trump presented his peace plan on January 28, 2020 at an official ceremony at the White House.
This was the best plan an US president had ever offered to Israel.
However, like two of his predecessors in office, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Trump has also come to the conclusion that Netanyahu is not serious about a two-state solution.
“I don’t think Bibi ever wanted to make peace with the Palestinians,” Trump said.
Trump said in the interview that he realized early in his presidency that Netanyahu represented a greater obstacle to peace than Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
“I thought he was great,” Trump said of Abbas.
“He was like a father to me… I think he wanted the deal and the peace more than Netanyahu”.
