Is some group asking the Arab Palestinians to give-up something? Is that the question?
I do not believe that the Arab Palestinians are asked, or were being asked, to renounce or forfeit any "rights." That is purely an embedded cultural mantra to support their extended tantrum.
The plan doesn't ask the Palestinians to give up any of their rights, real or imagined, but only to decide if they want to continue the status quo or to negotiate for a state on the basis of the plan because these are the only options.
TOOMUCHTIME
This reply may surprise you but I agree with you two 100%.
To my knowledge no ethnocratic state has ever seriously "asked" the native population to give up their land in advance for two basic reasons:
First reason:
They never needed to ask for anything in the first place.
The imbalance of forces between the supremacist settler state and the native population they subjugate is always so huge that the land becomes their de facto possession through brute force alone.
The only purpose of the peace accords, deals and plans the ethnocratic state presents to the natives after the military conquest of their lands is merely "ask" them to recognize and accept the "
reality on the ground" as toomuchtime so correctly put it ("
negotiate based on the plan because these are the only options.")
No matter how strongly the ethnocracy tries to deny this fact:
The native's acceptance (post facto) of the ethnocracy's creation and its territorial expansion
DOES give the landgrab perpetrated by the supremacist state an "
extra layer of legitimacy".
That's why the american government celebrated every treaty made with Indians creating a new reservation despite being a military behemoth fighting a bunch of unarmed nomads.
That's why South Africa saluted the establishment of the Bantu Republics founded by black south african "leaders" handpicked by the apartheid state in spite of being perfectly able to dominate the black population without the need of political fictions like Transkei, Kwazulu, etc...
And that's why Israel saluted the Oslo Accords, the Trump Plan despite their total insignificance in terms of military control of Palestine.
Regardless of being utterly irrelevant from a practical standpoint, nothing can replace the "moral legitimacy" conferred by the native's "acceptance" of the ethnocratic expansionism.
Second basic reason supremacist states don't ask natives anything prior to the conquest of their lands:
The proposition is insane in and of itself.
Asking the native population to vacate North America, their sacred rivers, prairies, mountains, their hunting grounds, their ancestors' burial grounds and move to crowded, barren, sordid reservations was so absurd that the english colonists and american presidents already knew what the answer would be.
Asking the bantu population to give up their african homeland for puppet, fake states would be equally absurd.
Same goes for Israel...
There would be no Israel today hadn't Ben-Gurion ignored the palestinians' rejection of the UN partition plan and there would be no Judea and Samaria today if Eshkol hadn't ignored the native's rejection of Israel's territorial expansion.
If all the colonists in the world decided to wait for the natives' acceptance of the ethnocracy's creation and territorial expansion and their own inevitable dispossession there wouldn't have existed a single racial dictatorship in human history.