He always makes the best deals.

This past June Trump entered the Deal of the Century, his Middle East peace plan, which was to bring an end to the nearly 70-year-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Trump and Netanyahu agreed to terms that ruled out the two-state solution as the answer to the decades old conflict between Israel and it neighbors.

Egypt would govern the Gaza Strip, Jordan would have political guardianship over parts of the occupied West Bank, and Israel would control the remaining parts of the West Bank and grant Israeli citizenship to the Palestinians living under its sovereignty.

It seems a little reminiscent of the past when England, France, and Spain eased hostilities by dividing up North and South America without bothering to involve the indigenous people who lived there which resulted in locking the borderless people inside man made borders and punishing anyone who violated them. Rivers from which they fished and crossed to hunt suddenly became boundaries they could not cross and the natural resources that had been there for their use became the property of the new people who, instead of taking what they needed while leaving the rest, now controlled who had access to them.

In the Middle East case Israel has implemented “apartheid” rule over Palestinians, and everyone but the Palestinians has control over their land as Netanyahu deepens his hold on the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

As the US envoy for the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, explained,

“The Palestinians are no longer the deciding party. We have a plan for the region and the Palestinians can join in if they want, but they are also free not to.”

And then, to pander to his base, and perhaps for some more personal unknown reason, Trump moves the American embassy from Tel Aviv, and  effectively thumbing his nose at the Palestinians in the name o he United States.

He was on a roll.

But then the Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz, sent a letter to Trump letting him know his kingdom was rejecting the Deal of the Century, Trump’s peace plan.

According to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz,

“Saudi Arabia has informed US President Donald Trump’s administration that it will not be able to support its peace plan between Israel and Palestine, known in the media as the ‘Deal of the Century’, if it does not state that East Jerusalem would be the capital of the Palestinian state.”
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The king had expressed his support for the Palestinian position and his commitment to the 2002 Arab peace initiative that stipulated a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The King also issued $80 million to the Palestinian Authority to compensate for the losses caused by the United States having cut off aid to Palestine.

It seems that Trump miscalculated by assuming that since Saudi Arabia was our friend and he was, well, Trump he was free to do what he wanted and people would just go along with it.

Instead, in this case, his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the transfer of the US embassy there assumed the Saudis would ignore their previous agreement and go with the new one.

The Saudis informed Trump,

“We cannot now implement what we have promised before the US decision on Jerusalem.”

Egypt and Jordan had warned that if the United States did not propose a peace plan that would be fair to the Palestinian side, any plan based on a pro-Israel bias would force Jordan to reject it.

It seems the artiste of the deal had assumed a position greater than what he actually had and believed that he could get the Arab leaders to abandon Jerusalem and the Palestinian people.

He may have placed his hand on a glowing orb, but it did not give him super powers.

He always makes the best deals (at that moment until they collapse).