US President Donald Trump believes that the state of Palestine would also like to take some steps to normalize relations with Israel. He announced this on Friday, October 23, in the presence of reporters during a speakerphone conversation with the leaders of Israel and Sudan.
Earlier, it was officially announced that these two states had reached an agreement on the normalization of relations through the mediation of the United States. Thus, Sudan became another country that joined the “Abrahamic Accords”.
“By the way, the Palestinians, if you ask about the Palestinians, want to do something. They had never seen anything like it. They want to do something. I am sure that this will also be done, “- quotes the words of the head of the White House TASS.
According to the American leader, now “at least five” Muslim countries want to sign agreements on the normalization of relations with Israel. And as Trump added, there will be many more soon.
Earlier in October, the Israeli Knesset approved an agreement to normalize relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The agreements on the normalization of relations were signed on September 15 at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdel Latif al-Zayani. The event was held at the White House in the presence of US President Donald Trump, his wife Melania and invited guests.
One of the points of the “Abrahamic Accords” implies Israel’s suspension of the extension of its sovereignty to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. This condition is spelled out in Washington’s plan for the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The signing of the agreements was condemned in Palestine. There they recalled their ambassador to the UAE and called the actions of Abu Dhabi aggression against its people and disregard for their rights and shrines.
The Arab Peace Initiative, adopted in 2002, on which Palestine relies, provides for the possibility of concluding peace agreements and establishing good-neighborly relations between the Arabs and Israel, but only on the condition of the withdrawal of the Jewish state from the territories it occupied in 1967, including the Golan Heights and Shebaa Farms, and also his recognition of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with its capital in East Jerusalem.