Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, says regarding annexation of the West Bank, Netanyahu says Israel “received a request to wait temporarily from President Trump” but adds, “It is a temporary postponement. It is not removed from the table.”
Jared Kushner, Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, didn’t say how long that postponement might last.
Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s foreign affairs minister, says UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed showed “badly needed realism” in agreeing to this deal. “While the peace decision remains basically a Palestinian-Israeli one,” says Gargash, bin Zayed’s “bold initiative…has allowed, by banishing the specter of annexing Palestinian lands, more time for peace opportunities through the .”two-state solution"
