Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee |
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said
yesterday that the US President Donald Trump is not qualified to manage
the peace process, stressing that his recent remarks about occupied
Jerusalem are “an act of irresponsibility”.
During a meeting with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the side lines of the Davos Economic
Forum in Switzerland, Trump said:
“You could never get past Jerusalem, we
got it off the table. I hope the Palestinians want to make peace.” He
then added: “We give them tremendous amounts. That money is on the
table. Why should we do that, if they’re doing nothing for us.”
“President Trump’s irresponsible statement
during his meeting with the occupying state’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in Davos only reaffirms that the US [should be] disqualified
from playing a mediating role in peace talks,” Erekat said.
He continued: “Jerusalem is not off the
negotiating table, rather the US is outside international consensus.
Those who say that Jerusalem is off the table are saying that peace is
off the table. The holy city is in the heart of each and every
Palestinian, Arab, Christian and Muslim, and there will be no peace
without East Jerusalem being the sovereign capital of the State of
Palestine.”
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