U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA) response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Israel National News website reports today (December 29, 2017).
Some of the PA's rhetoric has been "ugly, needlessly provocative and anti-Semitic," he said.
The ambassador added that the PA reaction was "largely emotional," saying they "unfortunately overreacted" because Trump made clear that the U.S. was "not taking a position on any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem."
Last week, PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas said, "The United States has proven to be a dishonest mediator in the peace process and we will no longer accept any [peace] plan from it."
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