At the joint White House press conference with Trump, Abbas says that “God willing,” Israelis and Palestinians have reached a new opportunity for peace.
“We, Mr. President, are coming into a new opportunity, a new horizon that will enable us to bring about peace,” he says in Arabic.
“We believe this is possible, and we will be able to solve the issues of refugees and prisoners according to international law.”
He goes on to say that “it’s about time” for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank to end, and calls for an independent Palestinian state to be established along the 1967 lines.
Abbas denounces ISIS and other terrorist elements in the Middle East that he says “have nothing to do with our noble religion.”
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