Palestinians freeze communications with Trump administration
Source: CNN
By Abeer Salman and Oren Liebermann, CNN
Updated 1:55 PM ET, Tue November 21, 2017
Jerusalem (CNN)The Palestinian leadership has frozen communications with the Trump administration following the White House's threat to close the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington.
Ashraf Khatib, a spokesman for the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, confirmed the move to CNN on Tuesday.
The decision comes after the Trump administration threatened to shut down the PLO office last week, citing a rarely invoked 2015 law saying that if the Palestinians move against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the US can close the PLO's base in the US capital.
The US believes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ran afoul of the law in September when he called on the ICC to investigate and prosecute Israel for alleged war crimes against the Palestinians.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/middleeast/palestinians-trump-administration-freeze/index.html
defacto7
(13,485 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I'm sure the Palestinians paid no mind that the Son-in-Law in charge disappears each Friday at sunset - just like all the Israeli counterparts they might be dealing with!
Pure coincidence.
So - let's all ratchet it up! What could possibly go wrong?
"Did you get my clubs packed?"
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Time to open up a branch in Bermuda
Igel
(35,320 posts)The relevant text is about 2/3 of the way down. (I searched for "influence a determination by the ICC" and found it.)
Apparently the president has to certify that the Palestinians haven't gone to the ICC if the Palestinians want a variety of perks in the US, like keeping their mission open.
However, *that* penalty due to lack of certification can itself be waived if the president certifies that "the Palestinians have entered into direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel ...".
Signed into law 12/18/2015.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...this must be a great deal for Bibi...