Palestinian leader Abbas rebukes Trump: 'Shame on you'

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Palestinian leader Abbas rebukes Trump: 'Shame on you' BY MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH the Palestinians' opposition to F ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump's Jerusalem recogni- sensitive issue, the announce region to try to breathe life al from the U.S., they have RAMALLAH, West Bank tion and censured Trump for credibility as a Mideast peace into moribund peace talks, heard from Saudi interlocu- - The Palestinian president accusing the Palestinians of broker. which collapsed in 2014. tors that the U.S. is exploring railed at President Donald refusing to negotiate.

"We can say no to anyone But the Jerusalem pivot threw a wrench into Trump's the possibility of offering the Palestinians a statelet in the Trump in a fiery, two-hour- long speech on Sunday, say. "He (Trump) said in a if things are related to our peacemaking attempts.

Since parts of the West Bank they tweet: We won't give money fate and our people, and now then, the Palestinians have already control, with Israel ing "shame on you" for his treatment of the Palestinians to the Palestinians because we have said no to Trump, controlling the borders, and they rejected the negotia- butted heads with the U.S. at the United Nations, win- the Gaza Strip.

The officials and warning that he would he said. "We told him the deal have no problem rejecting tions," Abbas said. "Shame ning a global rebuke against on you. When did we reject of the century was the slap of the century. But we will slap spoke on condition of ano- Trump's move. Trump has nymity because they were not what he suggested would be the talks?

Where is the nego- back." responded by threatening an unacceptable peace plan. tiation that we rejected?" authorized to discuss a sensi- The speech by Mahmoud Abbas also said that the Trump infuriated Palestin- Palestinians have rejected to cut aid and to reduce U.S. tive diplomatic issue. payments to the U.N/'s Pal- Abbas ratcheted up what has ians and Muslims around the been more than a month of world when he announced a U.S. request to-halt pay- estinian refugee agency.

The U.S. officials have not con- harsh rhetoric toward Trump late last year that the U.S. ments to roughly 35,000 U.S. is the largest donor to firmed the claims.

But if true. since the president's recogni- families of Palestinians killed the agency. the proposal would fall far would recognize Jerusalem short of Palestinian claims to tion of Jerusalem as Israel's as the capital of Israel and and wounded in the conflict capital.

Relations between move its embassy there, with Israel, including suicide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wel- the West Bank, east Jerusa- bombers and other militants. comed Trump's tough line lem and Gaza for an indepen- dent state.

Washington and the Pales- tinians have sunk to a new upending decades of U.S. pol- ael argues that the practice toward the Palestinians, while Abbas said the Palestin- icy and countering an interna- encourages violence. also pushing forward with ians will not accept the U.S. low, boding poorly for a peace plan the White House has tional consensus that the fate of Jerusalem should be decid Hoping to secure what he more settlement construction has called the "ultimate" deal, as a sole broker, and believe on lands sought by the Pales- a deal can only be reached promised to present.

Speaking to the Palestinian ed in negotiations between Trump has for nearly a year Central Council, a decision- Abbas has said that by dispatched his Mideast team, tinians.

Palestinian officials say if there are multiple parties, the sides. such as with the internation- led by his adviser and son- that while they have not al nuclear deal between six making body, Abbas repeated siding with the Israelis in-law Jared Kushner, to the received a formal propos global powers and iran.

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"Palestinian leader Abbas rebukes Trump: 'Shame on you'," Daily Tribune News, 26 January 2018. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2018-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2018-019