RIYADH/CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab powers appear to be prioritizing close ties with the
United States that are vital to countering
Iran over traditional unswerving support for the
Palestinians in their reaction to President Donald Trump's
Middle East peace plan.
At a
White House event on Tuesday with
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump proposed creating a Palestinian state but demilitarized and with borders drawn to meet Israeli security needs, while granting U.S. recognition of Israeli settlements on occupied West Bank land and of Jerusalem as Israel's indivisible capital.
The plan diverges from previous U.S. policy and a 2002 Arab League-endorsed initiative that offered Israel normal relations in return for an independent Palestinian state and full Israeli withdrawal from territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war.