Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that the Bahraini conference on the economic side of the future US plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is doomed to failure. "We are certain that the Manama conference will not be a success," he said at a press conference in Ramallah.
The United States released Saturday the economic part of its plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and must present it this week in Bahrain. They say it aims to raise more than $ 50 billion for Palestinians and create one million jobs in a decade. But the Palestinian Authority is boycotting the conference "From Peace to Prosperity", saying the administration of US President Donald Trump, which is showing support for Israel, is seeking to buy Palestinians and deprive them of an independent state. .
"first and foremost, a political solution"
"We will not be slaves or servants of (Jason) Greenblatt, (Jared) Kushner and (David) Friedman," said Mahmoud Abbas, referring, in order, to an advisor to Donald Trump, the son-in-law of the US president. and the US ambassador to Israel. "We need (support) economic, money and help, but above all, we need a political solution," he added. "We can not accept that America is transforming this political cause into an economic cause," he continued.
Diplomatic break since the recognition of Jerusalem as capital by the United States
Mahmoud Abbas has cut ties with the Trump administration after the US president recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017. Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem, occupied and annexed by Israel, the state's capital to which they aspire. This long-promised plan should later include a political component, according to US officials. Donald Trump's administration said the initiative would attempt to reform the Palestinian economy and link it to its neighbors, in order to raise large international investments.