Palestine envoy to UK: Trump's plan gives green light to 'Israeli apartheid state'

The chief Palestinian envoy to the UK has said Trump's plan effectively gives Israel a green light to establish an apartheid state.

"This is a political circus, it's a sad piece of political theatre," said Husam Zomlot, who previously served as head of the Palestinian mission to Washington and as a strategic advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas.

While the peace proposal to be announced by Trump at noon in Washington might refer to the establishment of a Palestinian state, Zomlot said it would have none of the characteristics of a true state and would leave the Israelis able to carve up Palestinian territory into "bantustans."