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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Palestinian PM: Trump’s Jerusalem plan destroying two-state solution
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The Palestinian prime minister says US President Donald Trump’s expected controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is bound to “destroy the peace process and the two-state solution.”
Rami Hamdallah met with European diplomats and urged European countries to recognize a state of Palestine on the lands captured by Israel in 1967.
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly recognized such a state in 2012, but influential countries in Western Europe have not individually recognized “Palestine.”
The Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as a capital. Israel’s government rejects partition of the city.
Hamdallah tells the diplomats that the expected US shift on Jerusalem “will fuel conflict and increase violence in the entire region.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is to convene advisers after Trump’s expected announcement Wednesday to decide on a way forward.
— AP
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