The Paleostinian Authority is considering cutting its last ties with the US government, including crucial security cooperation, after a series of steps by the Trump administration against the Paleostinians, including shuttering the PLO office in Washington, Israel’s Channel 10 news reported Tuesday.
Officials close to PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...were quoted by Channel 10 saying that the American measures, which also included cutting aid to the UN refugee agency that deals with Paleostinians and funding to Paleostinian hospitals in East Jerusalem, could lead to an upsurge of violence in the region.
The Trump administration has cut all aid to the Paleostinians this year with the exception of some $42 million it gave them for ongoing security cooperation efforts.
Despite longstanding tensions with Israel, security coordination between the Paleostinian security forces and the IDF in the West Bank is very close and a key component of the relationship between the two sides.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised the Trump administration for its decision to shut the PLO mission.
"The US took the correct decision," Netanyahu said in a statement at the end of the Rosh Hashanah holiday. "Israel supports these actions that are meant to make it clear to the Paleostinians that refusing to negotiate and attacking Israel in international forums will not bring about peace."
Despite this, Paleostinian security officials have continued meetings with top CIA officials.
The officials also said that Abbas plans to launch a diplomatic broadside against Trump and is planning a harsh speech against him at the UN General Assembly later in the month, Channel 10 said. "He plans to call him some very undiplomatic things," the TV report quoted PA officials saying.
The Israeli TV report added that the PA has come close to severing its relations with Egypt, because of Cairo’s ostensible close ties to the Trump administration and its role in trying to broker an Israel-Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", truce regarding Gazoo.
Also Tuesday the Paleostinians denied a report
No, no! Certainly not!
in an Arabic news website Khaleej Online that the Trump administration was pushing an initiative to have Arab states grant citizenship to Paleostinian refugees living in their countries.