Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted to the peace plan announced by US President Donald Trump in a speech in Ramallah on Tuesday. “Jerusalem is not for sale and all of our rights are not for sale or for compromise,” he said, “plots, deals of the century and plans to liquidate the Palestinian cause are doomed to failure.” Abbas then thanked Palestinians for their firm opposition towards Israel’s occupation, and for refusing the so-called deal of the century “which will not pass”. “We will begin a new phase of the Palestinian dialogue, and joint action, and overcome our differences,” he concluded. Abbas also held an emergency meeting with all the other Palestinian factions alongside Hamas to agree on a unified response to the plan, AP reports. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the United Nations supports two states on the basis of the pre-1967 borders. “The position of the United Nations on the two-state solution has been defined, throughout the years, by relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions by which the Secretariat is bound,” the spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said, referring to resolutions calling all Israeli settlements in the West Bank…
‘Our Rights Are Not for Sale’: Palestinians React to Trump’s Peace Plan
January 29, 2020
