Abbas boasts he has 'slapped' US in the face

The Palestinian president says he has “slapped” the US administration in the face by rejecting President Donald Trump’s promised peace plan.

In a speech, Mahmoud Abbas derisively refers to the US peace plan, known as the “Deal of the Century,” as the “Slap of the Century.”

“They tried to give us the slap of the century, but we slapped them in the face,” he says during a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death.

Trump has not yet released the plan or said when it will be released. But Abbas has preemptively rejected it, accusing the White House of being unfairly biased toward Israel.

— AP