Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In the letter published by British newspaper The Guardian, the former ministers rejected Trump\u2019s plan for Israelis and Palestinians, which was announced in January and proposes a two-state solution.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s blueprint risks fuelling the conflict at the expense of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians, by annexing large parts of occupied Palestine territory under permanent Israeli military control and is not a legitimate solution, they wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe plan envisages a formalization of the current reality in the occupied Palestinian territory, in which two peoples are living side by side without equal rights. Such an outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid \u2013 a term we don\u2019t use lightly,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt recognizes only one side\u2019s claims to Jerusalem and offers no just solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n Fifty politicians, including former French prime minister and foreign minister Dominique de Villepin, former German foreign minister and vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, Britain\u2019s former foreign secretary Jack Straw and Ireland\u2019s former president Mary Robinson signed the letter.<\/p>\n Other signatories included former ministers or leaders of Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.<\/p>\n \u201cConsidering the urgency of the situation, we call on Europe to reject the U.S. plan as a basis for negotiations and to take immediate and effective steps to counter the threat of annexation – and thereby preserve the international rules-based order,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers have condemned U.S. President\u00a0 Trump\u2019s Middle East peace plan in an open letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[96,243,689],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-palestine","tag-peace-plan"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n