Abbas at UN gives muted rejection to Trump ‘annexation’ plan
The White House declares victory as the UN Security Council holds off on issuing a resolution reiterating old parameters for a two-state solution.
The Israelis and Palestinians met in New York today, but it was in opposition to US President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
After addressing the UN Security Council, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a joint press conference in a New York hotel suite where each called the other a man of peace.
Abbas is “a man of peace" and "opposed to terror,” Olmert said, adding that after having more meetings with Abbas than any Israeli leader, he believes the message should be that Abbas is the only partner for peace.
“We will not accept this plan,” Abbas told the UN Security Council, calling Trump’s proposed maps of Palestinian territory “Swiss cheese.”
