A spokesperson for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says that the PA is willing to return to negotiations with Israel, as long as US President Donald Trump’s peace plan is dropped and both parties return to negotiations “from the point where they last stopped.”
“The Palestinian leadership is ready to return to negotiations, based on international law, or from the point where they last stopped, or based on Israel’s commitment to previous agreements signed [between the two parties],” veteran Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh says.
File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)
Abu Rudeineh makes his remarks in response to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s comments at the Knesset yesterday that “the Palestinian leadership has not understood that it is time to put away the excuses” and return to negotiations.
“I call on Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership: If not for yourselves, do it for your children. They, the future generation, deserve a future of peace and wellbeing,” Gantz said.
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