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Palestinians: Peace ‘off the table’ if Trump doesn’t reverse Jerusalem move
Times of Israel ^ | 25/1/18

Posted on 01/25/2018 2:46:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5

The Palestinians rejected US President Donald Trump’s fresh threat to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid on Thursday, saying peace talks are “off the table” if the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital isn’t reversed.

Ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Davos, Trump said the US would no longer provide aid to the Palestinians if they refused to engage in US-brokered peace talks with Israel. He also said he’d taken Jerusalem “off the table” with his December 6 recognition of the city as Israel’s capital — a move that led the Palestinians to freeze ties with the US.

Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said in response that the president’s latest remarks showed “the US has disqualified itself from playing a role in achieving peace” and that his Jerusalem decision was a “wake-up call” to Arab leaders.

“Jerusalem is not off the negotiations table, rather the US is outside the international consensus. Those who say that Jerusalem is off the table are saying that peace is off the table,” said Erekat. “There will be no peace without East Jerusalem being the sovereign capital of the State of Palestine.”

Erekat accused Trump of “blackmailing and punishing the Palestinian people for fighting and believing in their freedom and human rights per international law and UN resolutions.” He added that the US president “could buy many things with his money, but he won’t be able to buy the dignity of our nation.

“This is not a game for the people of Palestine. It is about our very existence that continues to be denied by Israel with full US support,” he said, adding that the Palestinians would continue to pursue statehood while Trump fuels “international anarchy.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; jerusalem; pa; palestinians; piece; trump
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1 posted on 01/25/2018 2:46:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Dear PA scum..go F off..there made it nice and easy for ya


2 posted on 01/25/2018 2:47:12 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Eleutheria5

Yeah, that’s gonna work.


3 posted on 01/25/2018 2:47:36 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Eleutheria5

LOL...When has “peace” ever been on the table with these dirtbags????


4 posted on 01/25/2018 2:48:29 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

but Kerry told us to say this ,LOL


5 posted on 01/25/2018 2:48:55 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Eleutheria5

When was it ever on the table to begin with?


6 posted on 01/25/2018 2:49:28 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Eleutheria5

Peace was never “on the table” when your only goal is to annihilate all jews and Israel.


7 posted on 01/25/2018 2:49:39 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Eleutheria5

Peace was always and has been a pretense to and for the Palestinians, who the frak they fooling? Changed the wording of that Charter yet, yo?! =.=


8 posted on 01/25/2018 2:49:55 PM PST by cranked
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To: Eleutheria5

I had no idea Palestinians were so funny.


9 posted on 01/25/2018 2:50:09 PM PST by Hadean
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To: Eleutheria5

Peace is off the Table at the Peace Talks?

LOL

Defund the Jihadi terriorists.


10 posted on 01/25/2018 2:50:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Eleutheria5

How many rockets per week for peace on the table vs off the table ? Probable -0-


11 posted on 01/25/2018 2:51:51 PM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: Eleutheria5

What a terrible bluff.


12 posted on 01/25/2018 2:51:59 PM PST by IC Ken
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To: Eleutheria5

They never wanted peace so long as Israel exists; their peace is Israel in pieces.


13 posted on 01/25/2018 2:52:20 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Eleutheria5

Peace has never been anywhere near the table!


14 posted on 01/25/2018 2:52:42 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Eleutheria5

Good...now the playing field is leveled.

Good luck in your war then, you start fighting it and we’ll see how cavemen fair against a 21st Century military.


15 posted on 01/25/2018 2:53:12 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh yeah, cuz it’s been so peaceful up till now ...


16 posted on 01/25/2018 2:53:30 PM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: JBW1949

I’ve been asking the same question for 30 years. The answer is NEVER. They do not want peace or coexistence with Israel. They want to destroy Israel and every Jew on the planet and will accept nothing less than that. Plain and simple.


17 posted on 01/25/2018 2:53:32 PM PST by Liberal Anti Venom (Freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. ~John Paul II~)
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To: Eleutheria5

Kerry probably told the Palestineans to tell Trump to Peace Off


18 posted on 01/25/2018 2:53:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: Eleutheria5

‘Off the table’ ?

Well then, how about Israeli carte blanche ON the table.


19 posted on 01/25/2018 2:53:42 PM PST by tomkat (bot for hire .. please outbid the cheap assed Russians)
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Well then, how about Israeli carte blanche ON the table.

I think it now is.

20 posted on 01/25/2018 2:54:53 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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