U.S. envoy says Palestinian leaders seek to kill peace plan, should hold fire


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  • Saturday, 11 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: U.S. United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley (C) White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) and Jason Greenblatt (R), U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy wait for a meeting of the UN Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., Feb. 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy is accusing the Palestinian leadership of trying to kill the U.S. president’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan even before its unveiling and urges them instead to hold fire until they see the details, saying it would be a mistake to declare it “dead on arrival.”

In an interview with Reuters, Jason Greenblatt, a chief architect of what Trump has called the “deal of the century,” pushed back against Palestinian officials’ rebuke of the coming peace proposals that they believe will be heavily biased in favour of Israel and deliver a blow to their goal of statehood.

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