“I think that the president is seeking to give Israel the peace and security it deserves,” Netanyahu said, saying he “gladly” accepted the invitation. The Trump administration last year released proposals for a massive international investment effort in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere. Palestinians have rejected the plan sight-unseen as a sop to U.S. ally Israel, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not invited to Washington. The White House has developed the plan with almost no input from the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, now in its eighth decade. The Trump administration has refused to say whether it would offer Palestinians a sovereign state on land now occupied by Israel.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 18:33 UTC