This letter from Mahmoud Abbas indicates one of the biggest reasons I love Trump’s decision to not only recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but to announce we are moving our embassy there:
NY POST – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insisted Friday that he would not accept any US plans for Mideast peace because of President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
In a Christmas letter to Christians, Abbas cited the White House’s “biased” support of Israel and its settlement policy.
The American plan “is not going to be based on the two-state solution on the 1967 border, nor is it going to be based on international law or UN resolutions,” he wrote, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Abbas’ letter was sent as he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris a day after the UN General Assembly voted 128-9 in favor of a resolution denouncing Trump’s decision.
Sources close to Abbas told Haaretz that his letter was written in wake of Trump’s decision on Jerusalem, which the Palestinian leader described as an “insult to millions of people worldwide, and also to the city of Bethlehem.”
“This time every year, the souls of billions of people turn to Bethlehem to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the messenger of love, peace and justice,” Abbas wrote.
“Bethlehem, the birthplace of hope, continues to be affected by Israeli policies. Regretfully, the U.S. has decided to reward such policies by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“It is because of this US decision to support illegality and the blatant violations of our rights, that we will not accept the US as the mediator in the peace process nor are we going to accept any plan from the US side. The US chose to be biased,” he wrote.
I’ve lamented all year the fact that Trump and his administration have been working on what we know is nothing but a phony peace process between Israel and the Palestinian terrorists.
But to Trump’s credit, he tried it, realized he couldn’t make peace happen, and then blew the whole process up with his announcement the other week. And now Abbas doesn’t want to have anything to do with us in the peace process.
Talk about a win-win situation.