After Netanyahu says he is in talks with the US about annexing the settlements, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says implementing such a step will “eliminate” all international efforts to revive the peace process.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh asserts in a statement carried by the PA’s official Wafa news agency that because the settlements are “illegal,” any unilateral Israeli imposition of sovereignty “will not change anything.”
Earlier, Netanyahu said he’s been in talks with Donald Trump’s administration on a “historic” initiative to annex Israeli settlement areas in the West Bank.
“I can tell you that for a while now I’ve been talking about it with the Americans,” Netanyahu told a faction meeting of his Likud party.
“I’m guided by two principles in this issue… optimal coordination with the Americans, whose relations with us are a strategic asset for Israel and the settlements, and it must be a government initiative rather than a private one because it would be a historic move,” he said.
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