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not least because the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem where live now to washington phyllis bennis you can give us her insight into this latest development she's director of the new internationalism project of the institute for policy studies thanks very much indeed for joining us the u.s. is lining up an expensive initiative here isn't it what three billion dollars is this the last throw of the dice to actually achieve peace or is it a pretext that some may see it as the u.s. using this is a way to arm its ally against iran under the guise of of a peace deal. well i think in many ways it's all of the above we're seeing in the one hand this is a set of bribes if you will that the u.s. was very likely to give to israel anyway the three billion dollars we still don't know if that will be included within the existing thirty billion dollars that the u.s. has agreed to give to israel in military aid over these ten years this was negotiated by george bush and is being implemented now by president obama whether it will be within that or whether this is an additional three billion dollars

least because the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem earlier middle east policy expert phyllis bennis told r.t. that the u.s. is offering nothing new what could be the final straw for the palestinians. the three billion dollars we still don't know if that will be included within the existing thirty billion dollars that the u.s. has agreed to give to israel in military aid over these ten years this was negotiated by george bush and it's being implemented now by president obama whether it will be within that or whether this is an additional three billion dollars of new fighter planes they're also getting something that the u.s. has given all the time to israel anyway which is complete protection in the united nations that means vetoing any effort by the palestinians to get the security council to recognize a new palestinian state it means protecting israel from being held accountable for war crimes that may have been committed in the gaza war including preventing the goldstone report from being brought forward and with israeli accountability sent to the international criminal court it m