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In Humiliating Rebuke, Arab League and Palestine Slap Down Kushner Plan, Palestine severs Relations with US and Israel

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It is said that crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman wants to pursue relations with Israel but that his father, King Salman, and the royal advisers are afraid of popular unrest if they took that step, and anyway do not want the Kingdom to be seen as throwing the Palestinians under the bus.

The Beirut-based pan-Arab news site al-Mayadeen quoted a report on Israeli television channel 12 admitting that the Arab League vote was a surprise and a huge blow to American and Israeli diplomacy. The paper said that the Israeli commentators reported that there had been indications that some Arab countries would reject Mahmoud Abbas's complete refusal of the American Plan. Moreover, it alleged, they said that Trump had been in informal contact with a number of the Arab states urging them to back his Plan. Instead, they all voted to reject it out of hand. Al-Mayadeen says that the Israeli commentators speculated on the reasons for this abrupt about-face, suggesting that these Arab governments were worried about pressure from Iran and Turkey, and about a massive backlash from their own populations.

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