Palestinian Authority to Resume Cooperation with Israel

UPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM

November 18, 2020

The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a now-frozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday.

Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh wrote on Twitter that “the relationship with Israel will return to how it was” after President Mahmoud Abbas received confirmation that Israel remained committed to past agreements with the Palestinians.

The PA leadership has been eager to find a pretext to go back on this, which Biden’s election now gives them. But it’s not likely to go over well with the Palestinian public, especially in the wake of ramped up settlements, demolitions, etc.https://t.co/2866ct6XLr

— Khaled Elgindy (@elgindy_) November 17, 2020

Interim peace accords signed in the 1990s envisaged the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Suspending cooperation with Israel six months ago, the Palestinians said its annexation…

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