The Israeli DEBKAfile intelligence website disclosed the US basic preconditions presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by the US Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt during a meeting on Tuesday March 14. The meeting aimed at restarting peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
The nine demands were literally listed as follows:
1. The Palestinians must return to the negotiating table without preconditions.
2. Over and above US intervention in the peace process the Palestinians must also accept a role for leading Arab governments: specifically Egypt Saudi Arabia Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
3. Abbas must forget about a moratorium on Jewish settlements in the West Bank. At most Israel would hold back from establishing new settlements in the West Bank during the course of the negotiations.
4. The Trump administration will not be satisfied with verbal statements by Palestinian leaders condemning acts of “terror” but insists on aggressive practical steps: Palestinian media must stop broadcasting anti-Israel materials; Palestinian school curricula must be purged of hate Israel propaganda; and the PA must give up naming streets and squares after “dead terrorists” thereby treating them as martyrs to a holy cause.
5. The revolving door for “captured terrorist suspects” must be replaced with proper investigations. Suspects must be held and closely questioned to discover who gave them their orders name their accomplices and reveal the source of their weapons and explosives before going on trial.
6. The Palestinian Authority must discontinue the custom of remittances to the families of “terrorists” who were killed or imprisoned a practice that confers honor on their deeds.
7. Palestinian security forces must be radically overhauled mainly to end the pervasive practice of moonlighting whereby uniformed members hold down two jobs and draw two salaries.
8. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah must stop transferring funds to the Gaza Strip which serve to bolster the regime of the extremist Hamas rulers. The sums transferred draw off 52 percent of the PA’s total budget.
9. The Trump administration supports a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
