Monday, October 8, 2018

US won’t propose Israel-Jordan-Palestinian confederation

Greenblatt tells ToI: US won’t propose Israel-Jordan-Palestinian confederation Trump’s envoy says impending peace plan will be ‘heavily focused on Israeli security needs’ but will also aim to be ‘fair to the Palestinians’

The US administration’s forthcoming peace proposal does not call for a tripartite confederation consisting of Israel, Palestine and Jordan, Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations, said.
“We’re not looking at a confederation model,” Greenblatt told The Times of Israel during a recent meeting in New York Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Greenblatt and Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner asked him about his view of such a confederation. (Read More)