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President Trump is reportedly expected to disclose details of his Mideast peace plan to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent Benny Gantz during their visit to Washington, DC, this week.

The president on Monday will hold separate, back-to-back meetings with Netanyahu and Gantz, the head of the centrist Blue and White Party and the premier’s rival in the March 2 elections, according to Reuters.

On Tuesday, Trump will deliver joint remarks with Netanyahu at the White House, where he may reveal details of his peace proposal.

According to an unnamed US official cited by Reuters, Trump will tell the two: “You have six weeks to get this [plan] going, if you want it.”

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday denounced the long-anticipated peace proposal, saying it “doesn’t constitute a basis for resolving the conflict.”

The Palestinians have not yet seen the plan but have already rejected it, saying Team Trump is biased in support of the Jewish state.

Shtayyeh told his cabinet that the plan violates international law and “comes from a party that has lost its credibility to be an honest broker in a serious and genuine political process.”

Trump, who has been impeached in the House of Representatives, is on trial in the Senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Netanyahu faces corruption charges and a national election on March 2, his third in less than a year.

Both leaders have vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

“This plan is to protect Trump against being impeached and to protect Netanyahu from going to jail, and it is not a peace plan,” Shtayyeh said during the meeting in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

“We reject it, and we demand the international community not be a partner to it because it contradicts the basics of international law and inalienable Palestinian rights,” he added. “It is nothing but a plan to finish off the Palestinian cause.”

Palestinians fear that the peace initiative — whose principal author is Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — would dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

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Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014. Last year, Trump hoped to release his own plan but was forced to delay as Netanyahu twice tried unsuccessfully to form a governing coalition after inconclusive elections.

The UN and most countries back a blueprint for a two-state solution — an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel.

Last week, Gantz lifted his objection to having the plan published before Israel’s March election.

“I am looking forward to meeting the president — a president of utmost friendliness to the state of Israel — on a matter that is very important for the state of Israel — with national, strategic and security ramifications,” Gantz said as he arrived in Washington on Sunday.

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