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2020-12-06 Africa North
Egypt’s Sissi said to tell Abbas he intends to broker Israeli-Palestinian talks
Assuming Joe Biden is the one who takes the oath of office in January, he’ll want negotiations so he can lean hard on Israel to make concessions, and this way Egypt continues to feel they are important at the center of world events.
Tl;dr: “Pay attention to meeeeee!“
[IsraelTimes] Unsourced TV report says two leaders agreed Egyptian president will invite Israeli, PA foreign ministers to Cairo as part of effort to renew peace negotiations.

Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....

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that he intends to broker peace talks between Israel and the Paleostinians, Israeli television reported Friday.

During their meeting in Cairo this week, Sissi and Abbas agreed the Egyptian president would separately invite the Israeli and PA foreign ministers to Egypt for talks on renewing negotiations, according to Channel 12 news.

The unsourced report said the talks would be held under the auspices of Egypt, Jordan, La Belle France and Germany.

Abbas reportedly said that while he supports the Egyptian initiative, he still intends to push for an international conference that will include the so-called Middle East Quartet (the US, UN, EU and Russia) and has reached out to UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
on the matter.

There was no mention of the reported Egyptian initiative in statements on the meeting from Egypt and the PA.

"Sissi confirmed that the Paleostinian issue will remain a priority for Egypt’s policy and underlined Egypt’s unwavering position in this regard, as well as its full support for the Paleostinian choices for a political settlement," Sissi’s front man said Sunday.

The PA leader traveled to Egypt after meeting in Jordan with King Abdullah II, where Abbas’s office said the two discussed "developments in the Paleostinian sphere."

The state visits were Abbas’s first since a February trip to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Security Council, where he condemned US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s controversial peace plan.

Abbas’s meetings with fellow Arab leaders follow the resumption of coordination between Israel and the Paleostinian Authority after nearly six months in which Ramallah publicly severed all ties between the two parties over Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank. The PA president cannot travel without approval by Israeli authorities.

While that annexation plan was shelved in August as part of the normalization accords with the United Arab Emirates, coordination between the Paleostinian Authority and Israel did not resume until a week and a half ago.

The decision to restore ties came only a few days after the US presidential election was won by Democratic challenger Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
, whom Ramallah anticipates will prove more sympathetic to its cause than Trump. The PA severed all ties with the Trump administration three years ago in protest of its policies.

On Friday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz urged the Paleostinians to return to the negotiating table.

"The entire Middle East is changing, and substantial regional processes are moving forward, including [Israel’s] normalization agreements with Arab nations, that are helping... develop the region’s economy and its stability," he said.

His call to the Paleostinians came after Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met Thursday with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi at the Allenby Bridge Border Crossing.

The meeting was the first between the two, and the first time in years that the top diplomats of the two countries have had an official sit-down.

A statement released by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said Safadi and Ashkenazi discussed "a number of pending concerns, including water rights, lifting restrictions on Jordanian exports to the West Bank, Jordanian provision of additional electricity to the Paleostinian Authority, and organizing movement through border crossings in light of their closure due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic."

Safadi’s office also said he emphasized the need to restart bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians in light of the PA’s recent decision to resume security coordination with Israel.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry front man confirmed the meeting, but declined to provide further details.
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