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President Trump and Mahmoud Abbas
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Palestinians slam Trump for ‘shutting door on peace’

After US president delivers speech to UN General Assembly praising his administration for transferring US embassy to Jerusalem, PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat says Trump can 'no longer fulfil his role of making peace'; Abbas spokesman says Trump's speech 'intensified disputes.'

Palestinian leaders said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump “shut the door on peace” during his speech to the UN General Assembly, during which he said that his decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a recognition of “obvious facts” and a precondition for peace negotiations.

 

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that “Trump’s speech has intensified the disputes and reduced the chances for peace.”

 

“Jerusalem will remain the capital of the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders against the will and despite the wrath of those opposed to it,” Rudeineh added.

 

President Trump and Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: AP)
President Trump and Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: AP)

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat also launched into Trump for his speech.

 

“Trump has proved that he has closed the door on peace and that he can no longer fulfil his role of making peace,” said Erekat, who has made no bones about his disapproval of Trump’s policies in the past.

 

According to him, Trump is “giving a prize and encouraging the violation of international law, colonization, war crimes and apartheid.”

 

Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO Executive Committee, accused the US president of delivering a speech that was “a display of unilateralism, bullying, isolationism and an arrogant assault on the international system.”

 

The Hamas terror organization also weighed in with its own broadside against Trump, saying that his remarks “reflect arrogance and rules of the jungle which increase anger against the American administration.”

 

Trump irked the Palestinians in his 35-minute UN General Assembly speech when he stressed that peace can only be advanced by acknowledging “obvious facts.”

 

 (Photo: AP)
(Photo: AP)

 

“This year we also took another significant step forward in the Middle East in recognition of every sovereign state to determine its own capital. I moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem," Trump said.

 

“America’s policy of principled realism means we will not be held hostage to old dogmas, discredited ideologies and so-called experts who have been proven wrong over the years time and time again.”

 

Trump announced last December that the United States was officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and stated his intention to move its embassy there. In May he followed through on his promise.

 


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