Saudi Crown Prince offered $10 billion to Mahmoud Abbas to give the West Bank to Israel?

Saudi Crown Prince offered $10 billion to Mahmoud Abbas to give the West Bank to Israel?

By Siasat

“Information Clearing House” –  The Trump declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocating the U.S. embassy there could be part of a grander plan to help Israel wrest control of Jerusalem, as well as the West Bank, from the Palestinians, leaving the Arabs with their own state of Gaza only.

Last week a senior Palestinian official gave insights about the linkage between the announcement and Trump’s broader plans for the region. This official was briefed on the details of the surprise meeting last month between Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the PLO), and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Abbas was summoned to Riyadh on November 6 by the Crown Prince as part of the latter’s high-powered effort to engineer a joint Arab-U.S. offensive against Iran and its allies.

According to the source, Mohammed bin Salman is playing a high-stakes gamble to cement both his leadership and his corollary offensive. On this score, the crown prince announced that the Arab Peace Initiative (API) is effectively dead. The crown prince declared that it’s time for Plan B, a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip. When Mahmood Abbas asked about the place of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in this scheme, the crown Prince replied, “We can continue to negotiate about this.” He is also said to have offered the Palestinian leader $10 billion to sweeten the bitter pill he had just prescribed. Abbas is in dilemma he can neither say no nor yes…..More Here

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