Palestinian officials reportedly believe US President Donald Trump will lay out a plan in the coming months on reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal as part of his administration’s efforts to revive peace talks between the sides.
During their meeting in Ramallah Thursday, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Trump would present the plan in the next three to four months in exchange for the Palestinian leader abandoning efforts to pursue statehood in international bodies, the Israel Hayom daily reports, citing an unnamed Palestinian official.
The paper says Abbas agreed to Kushner’s proposal, but demanded that Trump personally commit to the US peace plan, setting a meeting between the two during the UN General Assembly in September.
The US plan would include a set timetable for talks, which would focus on the so called “core issues” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian official said.
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