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		</div><p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to cut security ties with both Israel and the US as he denounced the White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>Donald Trump’s plan would grant the Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements there and keep nearly all of east Jerusalem.</p>
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<p>Mr Abbas addressed a summit of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday which was requested by the Palestinians, who responded angrily to the American proposal.</p>
<p>He used his speech to tell Israel and the US that “there will be no relations with them, including the security ties” following the deal that Palestinians say heavily favours Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>There was no immediate comment from US or Israeli officials.</p></blockquote>
<p>I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem</p>
<p>The Palestinian leader said he had refused to take Mr Trump’s phone calls and messages “because I know that he would use that to say he consulted us”.</p>
<p>He added: “I will never accept this solution. I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem.”</p>
<p>He said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Mr Abbas also said the Palestinians will not accept the US as sole mediator in any negotiations with Israel.</p>
<p>He said they will go to the United Nations Security Council and other world and regional organisations to “explain our position”.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_148804" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-148804" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-148804" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/947055FD-943F-46AC-9544-85BB7781E1F2.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-148804" class="wp-caption-text">Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Arab League’s head, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said the proposal revealed a “sharp turn” in the long-standing US foreign policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>“This turn does not help achieve peace and a just solution,” he declared.</p>
<p>Mr Aboul-Gheit said the Palestinians reject the proposal and called for the two sides to negotiate to reach a “satisfactory solution for both of them”.</p>
<p>Mr Trump unveiled the long-awaited proposal in Washington on Tuesday. It would allow Israel to annex all its West Bank settlements – which the Palestinians and most of the international community view as illegal – as well as the Jordan Valley, which accounts for roughly a quarter of the West Bank.</p>
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<p>In return, the Palestinians would be granted statehood in Gaza, scattered chunks of the West Bank and some neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Jerusalem, all linked together by a new network of roads, bridges and tunnels.</p>
<p>Israel would control the state’s borders and airspace and maintain overall security authority.</p>
<p>Critics of the proposals say this would rob Palestinian statehood of any meaning.</p>
<p>The plan would abolish the right of return for Palestinian refugees displaced by the 1948 war and their descendants, a key Palestinian demand.</p>
<p>The entire agreement would be contingent on Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other armed groups disarming, something they have always adamantly rejected.</p>
<p>Ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman attended the unveiling in Washington on Tuesday, in a tacit sign of support for the US initiative.</p>
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<p>Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Arab states that are close US allies, said they appreciated President Trump’s efforts and called for renewed negotiations without commenting on the plan’s content.</p>
<p>Egypt urged Israelis and Palestinians to “carefully study” the plan, saying it favours a solution that restores all the “legitimate rights” of the Palestinian people through establishing an “independent and sovereign state on the occupied Palestinian territories”.</p>
<p>The Egyptian statement did not mention the long-held Arab demand of east Jerusalem as a capital to the future Palestinian state, as Cairo usually has its statements related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.</p>
<p>Jordan, meanwhile, warned against any Israeli “annexation of Palestinian lands” and reaffirmed its commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines, which would include all the West Bank and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab countries that have peace treaties with Israel.</p>
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