King Salman bin Abdul Aziz
Sources: King Salman told the White House to reject a peace plan without East Jerusalem
Saudi Arabia and other major Arab countries have assured the United States of their refusal to accept any peace plan for the Middle East conflict that does not include the recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine, media sources said.
A senior Arab diplomat in Riyadh was quoted as saying: "The United States is wrong because it believed that one country could pressure the other countries to surrender, but it is not about pressure. About Jerusalem or the Palestinians. "
The newspaper "Haaretz" Hebrew confirmed the Saudi position on the issue today, quoting two diplomats involved in consultations on the "deal century" that the White House is preparing.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz expressed this position in a series of contacts he held recently with senior US officials, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Arab leaders.
According to Haaretz, last year the New York Times reported Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's willingness to accept a peace plan that does not include the issue of Jerusalem, adding that things have changed since then, especially in the light of US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital. To Israel.
"We can no longer do what we could have done to you before Jerusalem," one diplomat told the newspaper.
For their part, Jordan and Egypt urged the United States not to put forward its peace plan unless it was fair to the Palestinian side. Oman warned the White House that the biased deal with Israel threatened the unrest in the Hashemite Kingdom, which the Jordanian government would reject.
The newspaper pointed out that King Salman expressed his support for the Palestinian position rejecting US mediation and assured the Arab leaders of the firm adherence of the Kingdom to the Arab Peace Initiative, which stipulates the establishment of the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and ordered the allocation of 80 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority Cut US aid.
Source: Haaretz
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