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Saudis tell Abbas to accept new Trump peace plan

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Published: 13 November 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

After being summoned to Riyadh, he was told to agree to a new deal being worked out by Jared Kushner, and also ordered to avoid Iran, cut ties with Hezbollah

Saudis told Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or resign — report (Times of Israel)
Saudi Arabia last week ordered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to either accept an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal being put together by the Trump administration, or resign, according to an Israeli report Sunday

Team led by Kushner works on ‘ultimate deal’ for Mideast (New York Times)
President Donald Trump and his advisers have begun developing their own concrete blueprint to end the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, a plan intended to go beyond previous frameworks offered by the US government in pursuit of what the president calls “the ultimate deal”

Abbas: PA could move to back one-state solution if two states fail (Times of Israel)
In pre-recorded speech at Gaza commemoration of Arafat, PA leader promises Palestinian unity: 'There is no state in Gaza and there is no state without Gaza'

Hamas rejects return to Israeli involvement in border crossings (Al-Monitor)
As part of the recent Palestinian reconciliation between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah, the PA took over administration of the Gaza border crossings. It wants to revive the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA), which sets restrictions on the use of Gaza Strip crossings

Photo: Mahmoud Abbas meets with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh on November 7 (Thaer Ghanaim/Wafa)

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