The Palestinian President’s Spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said that attempts to promote suspicious ideas by any side “under vague slogans or indefinite stances” would be worthless.
In a statement published by Palestine’s official news agency, Abu Rudeina said: “We tell those who try to circumvent the Arab Peace Initiative and the resolutions of international legitimacy, by proposing vague proposals or slogans, that these attempts will be doomed to failure; because no one will accept them.”
The spokesman went on to say: “Without the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders and the adoption of a just solution to the refugee issue… all temporary solutions and vague ideas will expire, and any regional or international proposals that do not meet the legitimate rights of our Palestinian people will not see the light and will have no legitimacy.”
“We reiterate that any false and unclear ideas will be futile attempts, and will lead the region and the world to more tension and instability,” he stressed.
Abu Rudeina’s statement came amid reports about the imminent launch of the US peace plan known as the “Deal of the Century”, and other information about transitional solutions that might include confederations or even the adoption of the one-state solution, in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move that the Palestinians strongly rejected.
Palestinians say they reject Trump’s peace plan in advance, as long as he does not back down from his decision on Jerusalem.
On the other hand, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented a peace plan, which was adopted at the Dhahran Summit in Saudi Arabia, and is based on freezing the decision on Jerusalem and holding an international conference in mid-2018, to produce a multilateral international mechanism to promote the peace process, on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative and the recognition of a Palestinian State on the 1967 borders. However, the plan remained a proposal for failing to receive the approval of the US and Israel.
