Jason Greenblatt
U.S. envoy Greenblatt says, “Palestinian Authority can’t criticize from the sidelines” days after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas says Israel and Hamas will sign a deal “over my dead body.”
Son of Mahmoud Abbas told US officials that he doesn’t believe in two-state solution
According to Israel’s Channel 10, Tarek Abbas told White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt last September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York that the solution is one state with equal rights for all citizens.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy team’s effort to shutter the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may include efforts to clarify that millions of Palestinians are not considered refugees, according to a report on Friday.
Hamas has rejected the United States in its moves to foster peace between Gaza and Israel, despite U.S. agreement to work with the organization if it renounces terrorism.
Proposals for new paradigms, including calls for Israel to extend sovereignty over territories currently occupied by Israelis and Palestinians, are gaining traction.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, aide to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement warning Arab nations not to cooperate with America, whose intent, he said, was to create a divide in Palestinian society.
President Donald Trump’s international negotiations representative, Jason Greenblatt, is arriving in Israel on Wednesday for meetings with representatives of the Middle East Quartet.
