RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – U.S. Middle East plans that ignore Palestinians' rights and the establishment of the Palestinian state will lead to a dead end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah said on Saturday.
Abu Rudeinah made the remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisor Jared Kushner and special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt are touring the Middle East to meet Arab and Zionist officials, official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported
The U.S. "should abandon the illusion of creating false facts and falsifying history to make the deal possible," he said.
"A solution to the conflict is only possible with the Palestinian people and their national leadership, supported by their Arab brethren as a whole and their governments," the spokesman explained.
Meanwhile, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said in an interview with official Palestinian radio station Voice of Palestine that the U.S. is now trying to annul the role of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, after recognizing occupied al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s capital last December and moving its embassy to the disputed holy city in May.
Erekat said the so-called peace plan, which is expected to be unveiled by the United States, is aimed at normalizing the Zionist regime’s apartheid with the Americans serving as the spokesmen for the regime's occupation.
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat told the Middle East Eye news portal on Friday that Palestinian negotiators had yet to see an official draft of the U.S. initiative purported to resolve the decades-long Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
The U.S. plan is not actually a deal as it is already being implemented by Washington and its allies, he said, stressing that the Americans had become "nothing else than spokespeople for the Israeli occupation."
"If there's any plan, this is being implemented on the ground: with moving the U.S. embassy to occupied al-Quds, withdrawing support for the two-state solution, cutting funds to UNRWA and, eventually, trying to normalize the Israeli apartheid in Palestine," Erekat said.
On Sunday, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to persuade the Persian Gulf Arab monarchies to invest in Gaza economic projects in a bid to calm the situation in the Israeli-blocked territory before Washington unveils its so-called Middle East peace plan.
Haaretz quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that Washington hoped that it could raise between $500 million and $1 billion.
Earlier this week, Netanyahu met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman, fueling speculation about a possible backdoor agreement over the U.S. initiative for the Middle East.