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Abbas reportedly turned down Biden peace initiative
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned down an initiative presented by US Vice President Joe Biden during their meeting yesterday in Ramallah, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reports.
According to the paper, the initiative included clauses calling for designating East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, halting settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, declaring Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and relinquishing the Palestinian “right of return.”
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