{"id":12442,"date":"2018-08-22T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2018-08-22T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T22:23:54","slug":"yemeni-army-continues-to-push-houthi-militia-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12442","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni army continues to push Houthi militia back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nRAMALLAH: Palestinian leaders rejected overtures by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he said they would get something \u201cvery good\u201d in exchange for his country recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.
Senior Palestinian official Ahmad Al-Tamimi said the US president\u2019s assertion that he had removed Jerusalem from future negotiations was \u201ca continuation of the US policies in favor of Israel.\u201d
Speaking to official Palestinian news agency WAFA, he added that Trump\u2019s push for a Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was impossible without \u201crecognizing east Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.\u201d
The December decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and move the US embassy to the city sparked fury among Palestinians, with the political leadership cutting off ties to the US administration.
Palestinians see the eastern part of the disputed city as the capital of their future state.
The opening of the US embassy on May 14 saw mass protests and clashes on the Gaza border in which at least 63 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire.
Speaking to supporters in the United States on Tuesday, Trump again defended the move, saying he had eased future negotiations.
\u201cIf there\u2019s ever going to be peace \u2014 remember I said it \u2014 with the Palestinians, it was a good thing to have done because we took it off the table, because every time there were peace talks they never got past Jerusalem,\u201d Trump said at a rally in the US state of West Virginia.
\u201cAnd you know what, in the (future) negotiations Israel will have to pay a higher price because they won a very big thing.\u201d
\u201cNow (Jerusalem\u2019s) off the table, there is nothing to negotiate. But they (the Palestinians) will get something very good because it\u2019s their turn next.\u201d
The move has greatly complicated efforts by Trump\u2019s administration to broker what he has called the \u201cultimate deal,\u201d as the Palestinians will no longer accept US mediation.
Speaking in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, Trump\u2019s national security adviser John Bolton said he hoped the Palestinian leadership would move on from the embassy issue.
\u201cAs a dealmaker, as a bargainer, he would expect, you would expect, I would expect that the Palestinians would say \u2018ok, great, so we didn\u2019t get that one, now we want something else, and we\u2019ll see how it goes\u2019,\u201d Bolton told journalists as he wrapped up a three-day visit to Israel.
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, rejected Bolton\u2019s comments and said east Jerusalem must be the capital of a Palestinian state.
\u201cThe words of Bolton are nonsense and don\u2019t correspond to reality,\u201d Erekat said in a statement.
\u201cYou cannot talk about peace without Jerusalem being the capital of an independent Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAMALLAH: Palestinian leaders rejected overtures by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he said they would get something \u201cvery good\u201d in exchange for his country recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.Senior Palestinian official Ahmad Al-Tamimi said the US president\u2019s assertion that he had removed Jerusalem from future negotiations was \u201ca continuation of the US policies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}