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PALESTINIAN leaders told US President Donald Trump that their country was “not for sale” today after his threat to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Mr Trump ramped up tensions on yesterday by suggesting on twitter that he would halt US payments to Palestine that currently stand at $310 million (£229m).
“We pay the Palestinians hundred of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation or respect,” Mr Trump wrote.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
