Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the Trump peace plan on Tuesday, saying it "will not pass".

He blamed the "Zionist lobby" for misguiding Americans regarding the situation and said that as soon as he heard the opening statements regarding Jerusalem, he realized that the whole plan must be rejected.
No Palestinian can accept state without Jerusalem as capital, Abbas said, comparing the plan with the Balfour Declaration of 1917.


“After the nonsense that we heard today we say a thousand no’s to the Deal of The Century,” he said, adding that the PA was ready for talks with the Mideast quartet -- EU, Russia, US and the UN -- but not with the US.
The PA leader made the statement in the West Bank city of Ramallah following a meeting of various Palestinian factions including Islamist group Hamas, which pledged to "resist the deal in all its forms."
Earlier, Haaretz reported that the Palestinian Authority was not planning to take any dramatic measures at once in response to the Trump plan announcement.
Previous reports suggested that the PA could ditch the Oslo accords and the security cooperation with Israel in the wake of the Deal of the Century release.