Fatah Says Saudi, Egypt, UAE Pressuring Palestine to Accept Trump’s Deal

• Fatah Says Saudi, Egypt, UAE Pressuring Palestine to Accept Trump’s Deal
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  Some Arab states are exerting “immense pressure” on Palestinians to accept US President Donald Trump’s controversial Middle East plan, dubbed “the deal of the century,” a senior Fatah official says.
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  “Some Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, are very interested in the deal of the century,” the unnamed official told Al-Khaleej Online news.
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  “They are using all means, including political and financial blackmail, to force the Palestinians to accept the deal of the century despite all the dangers it poses to the Palestinian cause.”
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  Trump’s so-called “peace plan” is expected to be unveiled at the end of the holy month of Ramadan in June. The Fatah official stressed that the Palestinian leadership would not submit to any Arab, American or even Israeli pressure to accept the deal.
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  The plan formulated by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is likely to “stop short of ensuring a separate, fully sovereign Palestinian state,” The Washington Post said last week. Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.
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  The last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was Israel’s continued settlement expansion on Palestinian territories.
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  Outgoing French Ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, has told US magazine The Atlantic that the deal is 99% doomed to fail.
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