A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says an Israeli law passed overnight between Monday and Tuesday was “pushing the region into the abyss.”
In comments carried by the official PA media outlet Wafa, Nabil Abu Rudeineh says US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 9 and the Knesset’s passage of a law making it more difficult for future lawmakers to surrender parts of Jerusalem to a Palestinian state were a “declaration of war,” in Wafa’s words, “against the Palestinian people and their political and religious identity.”
“This vote clearly indicates that Israel has officially declared the end of the so-called political process and has already begun to impose dictating and de facto policies,” he says.
“There is no legitimacy to the Trump decision, and there is no legitimacy to all the decisions of the Israeli Knesset. We will not allow in any way to allow [sic] such plans that are dangerous for the future of the region and the world to pass.”
He calls for Arab, Islamic and international action against “Israel’s uncontrolled behavior that is pushing the region into the abyss.”
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