The Trump administration will allow Israel to annex portions of the West Bank and split the Gaza Strip from the West Bank so that it can be a state of its own, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday.
Speaking at the Arab League summit in Tunisia, “What is coming from the US is more dangerous and serious,” he said. “The US will tell Israel, annex part of the Palestinian lands and grant self-rule to what’s left of the land, and give the Gaza Strip a state so that Hamas can play there.
“The US administration’s decision is to destroy the Arab Peace Plan and constitutes a dramatic change from the positions of previous US administrations,” Abbas said.
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“The US administration’s decision……constitutes a dramatic change from the positions of previous US administrations,” Abbas said.
And how well did the the ideas of the previous administrations work out, huh? Time to try something totally different. The Palastinians had multiple chances to have a deal that was very favorable to them, and they turned them all down flat.