U.S. Offered Abbas Jordanian-Palestinian Confederation

According to media, Palestinian President said that he wanted a three-party confederation with Jordan and Israel and he was asking Israel to accept such a proposal. U.S. officials working on Jordanian-Palestinian Confederation. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Knesset representatives discussed this issue at the meeting in Ramallah, reports 10th channel of Israeli television on Sunday, September 2. Mahmoud Abbas said, the senior adviser and U.S. President Son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt offered him proposed to renounce the idea of independent Palestinian state and create a confederation of Palestine and Jordan with its capital in Amman. According to media, the Palestinian President is ready to do this, but only if Israel joins this confederation. Jordan’s officials rejected the idea of a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation because “this proposal was a non-starter”. “Jordanian position remains unchanged and firm and is based on the two-state solution with the capital of a Palestinian state in Jerusalem”, says the statement. Source: 112.ua