Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Meeting in an emergency session in Cairo the pan-Arab bloc stated it “rejects the US-Israeli ‘deal of the century’ considering that it does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.”
Simultaneously Mahmoud Abbas announced in a scathing speech before the assembly of Arab leaders that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is cutting all ties with the US and Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressing the Arab League in Cairo on Saturday, via APF.
“They told me Trump wants to send me the deal of the century to read, I said I would not,” Abbas told the meeting. “Trump asked that I speak to him over the phone, so I said ‘no’, and that he wants to send me a letter, so I refused to receive it.”
Holding up a map produced by the White House of the envisioned future ‘two-state solution’ and what the proposed new state of Palestine will look like, Abbas said further: “I challenge any of you, if you can even see us on the map.”
“If you ask a child in first grade to draw Trump’s map he will never know how to.” He added, “This is a disgrace.”
Abbas said he refused to go down in history as the person who “sold out Jerusalem”. The deal controversially cuts Palestinians out of control over holy sites of the Old City in Jerusalem, while claiming to offer parts of the city’s eastern sector to serve as capital of a future Palestinian state, but only if certain “conditions are met” long term.
The Arab League further agreed “not to… cooperate with the US administration to implement this plan” while emphasizing that a two-state solution must include a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders recognized by the UN with the capital being East Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera.
Arab League emergency session in Cairo on Saturday, via AFP.
From the start both the PA and Hamas indicated the plan would be dead on arrival as they were not even privy to negotiations related to key components of the plan. Especially the crucial part of the White House plan giving Israel ‘annexation’ rights over at least 30% of West Bank territory, which Netanyahu has said parliament will move to vote on Sunday.
However, a number of commentators have noted the 181-page US-Israel proposal was almost designed to fail in the sense that it concedes all that Israel desires with little significant in the way of concessions to the Palestinians. Israel can then move forward with taking West Bank and Jordan Valley territory while claiming it extended an ‘open hand’ as part of the deal.
Deal of the century? Smoke and mirrors for the Palestinians comes to my mind when I read of this.
President Abbas has no choice. The USadmin have put him in an impossible position and made him an offer he could only refuse. Muslims will be banned first from Jerusalem, the christians will be next. After that, take a guess but imagine the worst.
A regional military coalition needs to be put together to clear Israel out of the occupied territories and police the implementation of the resolutions that Israel is in violation of.
This deal put forth by the US government shows the real position of the US government for the past 70 plus years. The US government is a big part of the problem. And always has been.
The Palestinians got a State. What more do they want, Fort Knox gold reserves?? Vagabonds refusing to talk and receive letters from US President who has fed them with aid and dollares for decades. Get lost.
Fanatical Zionists genuinely desire nothing less than the ethnic cleansing of Arabs — Muslim, Christian or whoever else — from the Holy Land. There is no room for actual deals and compromises in their minds. It’s all deception and Abbas is aware of it. Also, you can’t simultaneously feed people and impose blockades on them.
(I’m assuming your post wasn’t satire)
It is the Arab league responsibility to cut ties with USA,ISRAEL and NATO. Then there will be impact.Abas duty is not to have any contact with USA and Israel.
the deal of the century is just another stupidity out of the white house – the only party which has said it is acceptable after some corrections is france and macron which doesn’t count for much – the rest of the world know that the document of, what some 50 pages, are just not worth a bent penny and can be discarded and must be discarded and the only way forward for the world is boycott of anything remotely connected to the illegal settlement israel.
The US needs to be dejudified so that it’s Jew free. Judaism should be outlawed as an evil pedophile mass rape cult and criminal organization.