Israelis Can’t Wait For New Dawn After Trump Plan Changes Nothing

“With this plan on the table, we can look forward to more of the same. It’s huge.”

Sderot, Gaza Envelope, January 30 – Two days after US President Donald Trump’s grand announcement of a comprehensive peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, citizens of the Jewish state have remained giddy over the prospect of no change in the intolerable situation for the foreseeable future.

Residents of this area subjected to on-and-off rocket and mortar attacks from Palestinian terrorist groups in the coastal territory nextdoor found themselves once again unable to sleep at night since the release of the so-called Deal of the Century, this time not as a result of missiles and the need to find armored shelter, but because the game-changing plan that draws actual borders and finalizes the status of heretofore-ambiguous swaths of the land means not an iota in the lives of the residents will shift.

“The excitement… I can’t explain it,” confessed area electrician Matan Voltz. “For years and years we’ve absorbed countless rockets and artillery fire from Hamas and the like. But now, with this plan on the table, we can look forward to more of the same. It’s huge.”

“It’s hard to overstate how important this is for us,” agreed Kibbutz Zikkim resident Seimold Storrey. “One day you get up, and boom, the world has shifted. Used to be, we’d have to spend our lives always keeping in the back of our minds that we have to keep track of the nearest shelter, just in case of a launch alert that gives us maybe fifteen seconds to find protection. But Bibi and Trump have altered the paradigm. It’s time to shift gears, because now we’ll have fifteen seconds to find shelter but an embattled US president has a plan. A total sea change.”

Success or failure of the plan as proposed rests on Palestinian willingness to admit defeat in a century-long armed struggle against Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land, analysts agree. Pressure from allies and neighbors might sway the Palestinian leadership to reconsider their hard refusal to accept the plan – which they expressed even before its release – even as a basis for negotiations, but even with such negotiations the split in Palestinian leadership and policy between rival factions Hamas and Fatah renders any agreement from the Palestinian side unlikely, with Palestinian culture and politics welded to opposition to Israel’s existence as a major element of identity.

“It’s a new day,” breathed an excited Fay Taliszt of Ashkelon. “Just like yesterday and the day before that.”

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