Saudi Arabia offered Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion to accept the US’ so called ‘deal
of the century’, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported yesterday.
Discussing details of a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
Salman and Abbas, the newspaper said “according to information obtained
by Al-Akhbar, Salman briefed Abbas about the details of the deal of the
century and asked him to accept it. According to the information, Salman
asked Abbas: What is the annual budget of your entourage? Abbas
replied: I’m not a prince to have my own entourage.”
Bin Salman then offered Abbas $10 billion over a period of ten years if
he accepts the US peace plan and has the Palestinian government’s base
in Abu Dis instead of occupied Jerusalem.
Abbas, however, rejected the offer and said it would “mean the end of my political life,” the report added.
Officials in Ramallah have refused to comment on the revealation.
Abbas explained that the situation on ground leaves him unable to make
any concessions on the illegal settlements, the two-state solution and
Jerusalem. Abbas confirmed to the Saudi prince that the Americans would
not make any sort of written or serious proposals, warning that if the
PA is forced to accept an unsuitable proposal, it would dissolve its
institutions forcing Israel to take responsibility of the occupied
territories.
On 23 April, senior US presidential advisor, Jared Kushner, said that
the American peace proposal would be unveiled after the Muslim month of
fasting which ends in early June. “We’re going to wait until after
Ramadan now,” he said.
Kushner stressed that the deal was not an effort to impose “US will on the region [Middle East]”.
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