Palestinian sources told the newspaper that current relations between Washington and Ramallah are extremely strained due to the White House’s support for its key Middle East ally.
According to them, Joe Biden’s government does not want to end the war, quite the opposite.
For this reason, they noted, the quadrilateral summit that was supposed to bring together the King of Jordan Abdullah II and Presidents Biden in Amman yesterday was canceled; to that of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas.
They noted that Arab leaders recognized that the meeting would lead to no progress toward ending the war.
In a sharp speech after the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza, Abbas criticized the northern power.
Over the years, he stressed, dozens of decisions have been made to protect our people internationally, but “they have not been implemented because the United States did not want to implement them.”
Palestinian sources revealed to the newspaper the tensions during a recent meeting between Abbas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The president called on Blinken to end the war and suggested that Washington’s bias against Israel and lack of support for the Palestinian Authority were the cause of the current situation, they added.
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