Palestinians fear Trump will put them on sidelines

Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Associated Press, Ramallah, West Bank

Transcribed from the clipping

“Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who spent hundreds of hours on the phone and in meetings with U.S. presidents and secretaries of state in the past 12 years, has tried unsuccessfully to reach out to President Donald Trump… Erekat, whose contacts are now limited to the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, has been quoted as saying that ‘we have sent them letters, written messages; they don’t even bother to respond to us.’… Many Palestinians are disillusioned with a process they say effectively provided diplomatic cover for Israeli settlement expansion and distanced statehood prospects… ‘not having a relationship with Washington is cutting off their air supply, essentially,’ said Khaled Elgindy, an analyst at the Brookings Institution… ‘The foreign policy of the U.S. administration is not clear yet, aside from its clear support of Israel, but the administration knows nothing can be done without the Palestinians,’ said Abbas adviser Mohammed Ishtayeh.”

Context added by this archive

A wire explainer in question-and-answer form, printed in a Missouri daily.

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"Palestinians fear Trump will put them on sidelines," Daily American Republic, 8 February 2017. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-007

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