Abbas rejected the US bid for Kushner's meeting, Al Hayat said

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the offer to hold a joint meeting with US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner and other Arab leaders, Al Hayat reported, citing diplomatic sources.

The President saw the offer as an American maneuver to put pressure on the Palestinians to accept a peace plan on Israel's terms and to reach the "real goal" to promote stronger links between Israel and the Arab states, reported the London newspaper citing an unidentified diplomatic source.

United States officials pointed out that they will not seek to meet Abbas after he broke ties following recognition by President Donald Trump of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, told a Palestinian newspaper during his last trip to the Middle East that the US would not "chase" Abbas

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The American team proposed a meeting on the last day in the regions on the day the message was sent to Palestinians in Egypt