US Envoy Hints Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan Could be Delayed

• US Envoy Hints Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan Could be Delayed
  by https://www.aljazeera.com/
  Middle East envoy said Trump administration’s much-awaited peace plan might be delayed until early November.
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  US President Donald Trump‘s Middle East envoy has hinted at a further delay until early November to the unveiling of a White House peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “I think the logic would still dictate that if we wanted to wait until a new (Israeli) government is formed, we really do have to wait until potentially as late as November 6,” Jason Greenblatt said in a Jerusalem Post interview on Sunday.
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  The Trump administration had already delayed its presentation of the plan until after Israel’s April 9 polls, which failed to yield a government and a new election is scheduled for September 17. A new government will potentially come into the office in early November, following the election of a potential prime minister and negotiations to form a coalition.
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  “It’s no secret that the Israeli elections have certainly put a new thought into our head,” Greenblatt said, in a video of the New York Times interview published online. “Had the elections not been called again, perhaps we would have released” details of the deal during the summer, he said. Greenblatt recalled that the Trump administration had already delayed presentation of the deal until after the holy month of Ramadan, which ended in early June.
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