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Palestinians' Mahmoud Abbas rejects Trump's Middle East peace plan

"Netanyahu vows to begin annexing West Bank settlements"

By Pamela Falk

February 11, 2020 / 1:01 PM / CBS News

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"We are ready to start negotiations," Abbas told the council, but he said the Palestinian Authority would only do so under the auspices of the so-called U.N. Quartet. That group, which includes the Palestinians, the U.N., the European Union, Russia and the U.S., previously spear-headed Mideast peace negotiations, but that dialogue has been stalled for years, as the Trump administration worked on its own plan.

Holding up maps of the Palestinian state envisioned by the White House plan, Abbas ridiculed the proposal.

"This is the state they will give us," he said. "It's like Swiss cheese." Critics point out that Mr. Trump's plan would give Israel most of what it has long sought, and carve a future Palestinian state into separate chunks surrounded by Israeli territory.

"The U.S. cannot be the sole mediator," Abbas said Tuesday, hinting that the opposition building to the U.S. proposal in the Palestinian territories could boil up into violence. There have already been scattered clashes since the Trump plan was unveiled.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palestinians-mahmoud-abbas-rejects-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan/

Trump dealmaker playbook, make it up ourselves. Who could reasonably argue against the Abbas condition above?

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Palestinian leader Abbas slams Trump's peace plan at UN

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A poll published on Tuesday showed that 94% of Palestinians reject Trump's plan. Also, 64% now favor a return to armed struggle in response to the plan, according to the survey published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

https://www.dw.com/en/palestinian-leader-abbas-slams-trumps-peace-plan-at-un/a-52344168

See also:

Trump Unveils the “Giveaway of the Century” on Middle East Peace
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“The Trump proposals released today were formally presented as a basis for negotiations, but that’s not in fact how they are structured. They are structured as a diktat,” Tamara Cofman Wittes, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs who is now at the Brookings Institution, told me. “The Administration has made it clear that it plans to recognize Israeli sovereignty over all the land indicated for the Israelis in Trump’s map, whether the Palestinians accept it or not. That makes the Trump plan an imposed peace.”
P - Wittes noted that the timing of the plan conspicuously aids Trump and Netanyahu politically. Both men face tough reëlection bids this year, and also perilous legal challenges.
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