Alwaght-The Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, says Palestine will hold no talks with the United States until Trump's government reverses its recognition of al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli regime’s capital.
"The minute any Palestinian goes and meets with American officials, it is an acceptance of their decision. Now they are threatening us with money, with aid," the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian's longtime chief negotiator said in a Tuesday interview with AFP.
Erekat rejected Washington’s efforts to hold an international conference on finding a two-state solution for the Palestinian conflict and noted, "They promised not to impose any solution, and now they want the meeting for the sake of the meeting."
Erekat said it was as if the American officials are telling the Palestinians, "Come here boy, we know what is good for you."
Erekat warned that Trump and Israel’s right-wing cabinet are in the process of “destroying” the two-state solution, warning that doing so would lead to "an enlargement of the cycle of violence, extremism and counter-violence."
On December 6, US President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize al-Quds as Israeli regime's capital, sparking widespread anger and protests from across the Arab and Muslim world.
On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly voted by a resounding majority to reject Trump’s al-Quds move.
The occupying Israeli regime lays claim to the whole al-Quds, but the international community views the ancient city’s eastern sector as occupied land and Palestinians consider a unified al-Quds as the undisputed capital of their future state.
