Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in a speech threatens to cut security ties with Israel and U.S. and denounces White House Mideast peace plan.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Saturday to cut security ties with both Israel and the U.S. in a speech at an Arab League meeting in which he denounced the White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abbas said he told Israel and the U.S. that “there will be no relations with them, including the security ties” following the deal that Palestinians say heavily favors Israel.The Western-backed Palestinian leadership has been under mounting pressure from ordinary Palestinians and its rivals in the Islamic militant group Hamas to cut off security ties with Israel and the U.S. or even dismantle the increasingly unpopular Palestinian Authority.
— which the Palestinians and most of the international community view as illegal — as well as the Jordan Valley, which accounts for roughly a fourth of the West Bank, according to the U.S. plan.AdvertisementThe Palestinian leader said he refused to take President Trump’s phone calls and messages “because I know that he would use that to say he consulted us.”
The Arab League’s head, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said the proposal revealed a “sharp turn” in the longstanding U.S. foreign policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Aboul-Gheit said that the Palestinians reject the proposal. He called for the two sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians, to negotiate to reach a “satisfactory solution for both of them.”
The plan would abolish the right of return for Palestinian refugees displaced by the 1948 war and their descendants, a key Palestinian demand. The entire agreement would be contingent on Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other armed groups disarming, something they have always adamantly rejected.
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