The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for 'some time,' preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE ...
The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for"some time," preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE normalisation deal and wider regional peace efforts, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday.
The United Arab Emirates has said that its move to formalise relations with Israel, announced on Thursday, put paid to an annexation plan that angered Palestinians - who want the West Bank for a future state - and worried some world powers.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts the annexation plan - already dogged by disputes within his governing coalition - as temporarily on hold. But he has also said he wants approval from Israel's main ally first.
"What you’re saying as suspension, we're seeing as stopping," UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash told reporters shortly after the deal was announced.Palestinians, feeling sidelined six years after their own peace talks with Israel stalled, have condemned the Gulf power. Kushner said Washington was not pressuring other Gulf Arab states to recognise Israel. Kuwait, he said, was"out there taking a very radical view on the conflict to date in favour of the Palestinians and obviously that hasn't been very constructive".
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