In fact, the Trump administration took a series of uNPRecedented decisions last year, such as closing the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington and cutting off financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Washington has so far refrained from putting forward its peace plan, dubbed "Deal of the Century," as it had promised before.
The Palestinians have long refused to accept this plan as it is not yet clearly based on the two-state solution.
Ahmed Rafik Awad, a Ramallah-based political analyst, said the Trump administration has uNPRecedentedly supported Israel's right-wing plans to undermine any real chance of an independent, geographically connected Palestinian state.
He warned that the U.S. decision about settlement terminates the Oslo Accord, an interim peace agreement signed between the PLO and Israel in 1993, and aborts the dream of establishing an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 border.
According to the latest Palestinian data, around 400,000 Israelis live in 135 settlements and 100 illegal outposts in the West Bank, where the Palestinian population has reached 2.6 million.
Israeli settlement activity is deemed illegal by most world powers and the international law. It is considered one of the major issues that caused the collapse of the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis in 2017.
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