Middle Eastern nations offered mixed reactions to President Donald Trump's long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a framework negotiated without the participation of Palestinians.
Middle Eastern nations offered mixed reactions to President Donald Trump's long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a framework negotiated without the participation of Palestinians, who have been engaged in a land dispute with the world's only majority-Jewish nation since its creation in 1948.
"Jerusalem is not for sale. Our rights are not for sale. Your conspiracy deal will not pass," Abbas stated, warning that the Palestinian people will dump his plan"into the dustbin of history." Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi called in a statement Tuesday for a"just and lasting peace that meets all the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people" but stated that a two-state solution would need to respect Palestinian claims to territories occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, including an East Jerusalem capital.
Saudi King Salman also called Abbas directly, telling him that"your issue is ours, and the issue of Arabs and Muslims, and we are with you," according to the Palestine News Agency, the official outlet of the Palestinian National Authority.
Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans and wave Palestinian flags as they stand by flaming tires during a protest against President Donald Trump's peace plan proposal in Gaza City on January 28. Trump has been widely seen as among the most pro-Israeli presidents in U.S. history, frustrating many Palestinians whose cause has been largely sidelined by other regional tensions.
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