Abbas slams Trump's Mideast peace plan as 'slap on face'
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hammered on Sunday the peace bargain proposed by US President Donald Trump, calling it an "a slap on the face".Abbas told individuals from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council, who gathered in the city of Ramallah for two days, that Trump's "arrangement of the century" is "a slap on the face," including "we will slap back," Xinhua revealed. The Central Council gathered for two days to think of key choices on the peace procedure, the relations with Israel and to talk about Trump's affirmation last December to perceive Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "Jerusalem was expelled from the table by a tweet of Trump," said Abbas, including that "the status of Jerusalem resembles Mecca. Nothing is more essential than Jerusalem." The Palestinians think about East Jerusalem, which was involved by Israel amid the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, as t...