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Abbas on Kushner Talks: 'Sounded Like Netanyahu's Advisers, Not Like Fair Arbiters'

Abbas on Kushner Talks: 'Sounded Like Netanyahu's Advisers, Not Like Fair Arbiters'
Presidential advisor Jared Kushner and Palistinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Thaer Ghaniam/PPO via Getty Images)

By    |   Saturday, 24 June 2017 05:13 PM EDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was disappointed in his “tense” meeting with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on the Israeli-Palestine peace talks and to hear that President Donald Trump was considering abandoning the talks altogether, London-based newspaper Al-Hayat reports.

Kushner held separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas this week in an effort to renew peace negotiations. Abbas was reportedly livid with Trump’s son-in-law for pushing him to condemn a terror attack in Jerusalem and for protesting his rejection to meet with U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman becausse of Friedman's support for settlement construction.

The U.S. Mideast envoy, which included Jason Greenblatt and Friedman, also raised Netanyahu’s demands at the start of the meeting including a halt in payments to terrorists and their families.

"They sounded like Netanyahu's advisers and not like fair arbiters," a senior Palestinian official told Haaretz. "They started presenting Netanyahu's issues and then we asked to hear from them clear stances regarding the core issues of the conflict."

A U.S. official told the Jerusalem Post that the report of Trump thinking of ending the talks was “nonsense.”

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was disappointed in his "tense" meeting with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on the Israeli-Palestine peace talks and to hear that President Donald Trump was considering abandoning the talks altogether, London-based newspaper...
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