Palestinians: Donald Trump’s threats ‘is not any longer going to work’

The Palestinian management has rebuked threats by US President Donald Trump to steal attend if it refuses to barter with Israel.

« This policy of threats … is not any longer going to work with the Palestinian of us, » spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, acknowledged in a press conference on Thursday.

« The notify of Jerusalem is a holy notify – it’s the famous to struggle and peace within the position. It might perhaps in all probability in all probability’t be bought or offered with the entire enviornment’s cash, » acknowledged Abu Rudaineh, in accordance with the official Palestinian news company Wafa. 

« If Jerusalem is off the negotiating table, so is the US. »

Trump threatened to steal funds on Thursday after a gathering with Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the World Financial Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 

« We give them a full lot of thousands and thousands of bucks in attend and beef up, big numbers, numbers that no person understands. That cash is on the table and that cash is not any longer going to them unless they take a seat down and negotiate peace, » he acknowledged. 

Trump didn’t specify which attend cash he was referring to. Since 2008, the US has donated about $400m yearly in economic attend to the Palestinian Authority – the governmental body that governs the Israeli-occupied West Monetary institution.

Final week, the US made up our minds to decrease more than half of of its funding to the United Worldwide locations company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) – an attend company that has been the lifeline to the more than five million registered Palestinian refugees within the occupied territories, apart from to Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

In Davos, Trump also accused the Palestinian management of « disrespecting » the US by refusing to meet Vice President Mike Pence right through his seek the recommendation of with to Israel and the position earlier this week.

Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi answered by pronouncing, « no longer assembly your oppressor is not any longer a signal of disrespect, it’s a signal of self-admire ».

The inclinations approach following a controversial decision by the US on December 6 to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The US also vowed to switch its embassy from the industrial capital Tel Aviv, to Jerusalem. 

The declaration dealt a blow to the Palestinian management, which for more than two decades has tried to set a Palestinian inform on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, consisting of the West Monetary institution and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

« We took Jerusalem off the table, so we don’t must focus on it anymore, » Trump acknowledged on Thursday. « We will learn about what occurs with the peace direction of, but admire must be proven to the US or we’re merely no longer going any longer. »  

Trump’s Jerusalem decision also sparked infuriate across Palestine and the wider Arab and Muslim world and earned the US livid rebuke from the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who vowed no longer to score Pence within the Palestinian territories.

At some stage in his speech in Jerusalem on Monday, Pence promised the American embassy might perhaps perhaps perhaps be relocated by the head of subsequent year. 

‘Fright’ over cuts to UN attend company

Individually, a crew of more than 20 celebrities and public figures – together with actors Hugh Grant and Viggo Mortensen – condemned Trump’s decision to decrease funding to UNRWA. 

On Thursday, the Hoping Foundation, a UK-primarily based mostly crew that helps Palestinian childhood, launched a joint statement expressing « fear » over the attend cuts. 

« The accurate goal of this lethal assault is the Palestinian of us themselves. It has been launched with the certain just of dismantling their rights, by dismantling the institution that is charged with conserving them, » the statement acknowledged. 

« 2018 opens with President Trump’s new are trying and force Palestinians to accept this grossly unfair ‘deal’, by threatening and endangering the international company liable for his or her trendy wants as refugees.

« It’s repellent to us that such ways are being conventional within the 21st century, in bid contradiction of international legislation, and to human decency. » 

Actresses Emma Thompson and Olivia Wilde, apart from to British creator Hanif Kureishi had been also amongst the signatories.