Yedioth Ahronoth Hebrew newspaper said on Friday that a state of frustration and disappointment prevailed among the Palestinian Authority (PA) officials after president Mahmoud Abbas met with US officials in Ramallah a few days ago to discuss ways to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Palestinian sources reported that the meeting between Abbas and the US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and the US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner in Ramallah was “disappointing and a failure” according to the paper.
The sources added that the meeting in which a number of Israeli demands were tabled to the PA did not include any US promises of advancing the peace talks or holding future negotiations between the two sides.
The Hebrew newspaper said that the US delegation adopted the Israeli demands and asked the PA to cut the salaries of the Palestinian prisoners’ families under the pretext that they encourage attacks on Israeli targets to show its willingness to reach a peace agreement with the Israelis.
It noted that the PA failed in convincing the US to oblige the Israeli government to halt the settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian sources affirmed that “there is no prospect of any future agreement to solve the conflict”.
