The Palestinian Authority says diplomatic relations with the United States can be resumed on the condition that Washington is committed to the peace process in the region.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for the government, said in a Thursday statement that the Palestinians have never rejected any negotiations or initiatives for Palestinian-Israeli peace.
Palestinians never rejected any negotiations or initiatives for Palestinian-Israeli peace, says Nabil Abu Rudeineh https://t.co/HOxlvmq4su
— Radio Pakistan (@RadioPakistan) July 12, 2019
Rudeineh said:
“Peace can only be established in accordance to the two-state solution on the 1967 borders, the international resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative which considers East Jerusalem an occupied territory.”
The government representative was responding to recent remarks made by U.S. officials on achieving peace with Israel, according to Palestinian state media, WAFA.
Greenblatt boasts of secret meetings with PA officials on deal of the century https://t.co/ZPUcyqi1HF pic.twitter.com/oEb3FtcV1r
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) July 12, 2019
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to resume contacts with the U.S. government only if it shows commitment to all these conditions, Rudeineh noted.
The government severed political ties with the United States in 2017 after President Donald Trump announced Jerusalem was the capital of Israel.
Opinion: The shameful ‘deal of the century’ | By: Dr Elias Akleh https://t.co/IH1f0aSekz
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) July 12, 2019
The administration later moved the nation’s embassy there in May 2018. Since then Trump and his advisors have been trying to sell an economic plan for the region, what Trump dubbed the ‘deal of the century,’ as a way make political peace between Palestine and Israel.
The U.S. plan was officially unveiled at a late-June meeting in Bahrain that the Palestinian Authority boycotted, saying only a political solution will solve the long-standing conflicts between them and Israel, which has annexed and occupied the majority of Palestinian land starting in 1948 with the Nakba.
"The “deal of the century” is a farce." – Ramzy Baroudhttps://t.co/waYmm22774
— Rima Najjar (@rima123) March 27, 2018
The Trump plan abandons decades of attempts by international diplomats to establish a two-state solution, replacing it with a “New Palestine” that wouldn’t be allowed an army and illegal settlements in the West Bank would become a part of Israel.
To date, 137 nations in total recognize the sovereignty of Palestine.
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