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Middle East: Palestinian President Abbas wants to sever "all relations" with Israel and the United States

2/1/2020, 1:34:18 PM


Mahmoud Abbas believes that the peace plan presented by Donald Trump is a “violation of the Oslo Accords”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday the breakdown of "all relations", including security, between the Palestinian Authority on the one hand, and Israel and the United States on the other, before an extraordinary meeting of the League Arab on the American peace project.

The US plan is a "violation of the Oslo Accords" signed with Israel in 1993, said the President of the Palestinian Authority in Cairo.

Mahmoud Abbas, who said he conveyed the message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the Hebrew state to "assume its responsibilities as an occupying power" in the Palestinian Territories.

Presented last Tuesday by Donald Trump, the American plan makes many concessions to Israel, with in particular the recognition of the annexation to its territory of the colonies which it established in the occupied West Bank, in particular in the Jordan Valley. Jerusalem would remain "the indivisible capital of Israel".

A future Palestinian state on these routes would be far below what the Palestinians aspire to, namely all of the Territories occupied since 1967 by Israel.

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