‘Jerusalem is Not for Sale, Your Conspiracy Deal Will Not Pass’ – Abbas Reacts to Trump’s Middle East Peace Deal

• ‘Jerusalem is Not for Sale, Your Conspiracy Deal Will Not Pass’ – Abbas Reacts to Trump’s Middle East Peace Deal
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has slammed US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, declaring “Jerusalem is not for sale” and warning that the “conspiracy deal will not pass.”
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  “Your conspiracy deal will not pass and the Palestinian people will reject it,” Abbas warned on Tuesday after Trump unveiled his long-awaited plan for peace between Israel and Palestine.
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  “Jerusalem is not for sale.”
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  Calling it “impossible” for Palestinians to “accept a state without Jerusalem,” which would remain the US-recognized capital of Israel under Trump’s plan, Abbas made his feelings absolutely clear on the matter. “No, no, a big no to the ’deal of the century.’” The plan, he predicted, would be consigned to the “dustbin of history.”
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  Vowing not to “bow to the demands of the occupation,” Abbas announced a new round of negotiations with Fatah and stated that Palestine was ready to meet with the Middle East Quartet, which has advised on the Israel-Palestine peace process for nearly two decades.
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  Trump released a “conceptual map” of his two-state solution on Twitter after his speech, showing a much-reduced West Bank honeycombed with Israeli settlements. While these ethnically-segregated outposts are illegal under international law, the peace plan recognizes them as permanent – though imposes a four-year freeze on construction of further settlements. A tunnel connects the West Bank and Gaza, and two chunks of desert land in Israel’s southwest are added to Palestine, connected by a tiny strip of land to Gaza.
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This is what a future State of Palestine can look like, with a capital in parts of East Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/39vw3pPrAL

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2020

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