Trump: Palestinians will not get US aid 'unless they sit down and negotiate peace'
by Sarah Westwood | Jan 25, 2018, 10:16 AM
President Trump said his administration has a framework for achieving peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but warned the U.S. is prepared to withhold aid to the Palestinians if they decline to return to the negotiating table with Israel.
"Respect has to be shown to the U.S. or we're just not going any further," Trump said of the Palestinian Authority during a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the World Economic Forum.
Trump cited the Palestinians' refusal to meet last week with Vice President Mike Pence during Pence's visit to Israel. The president said his administration has formulated a peace proposal that would be "great" for the Palestinian Authority, if its leaders were willing to restart the talks they severed after he formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel late last year.
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