Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, responded on Sunday to reports that the Trump administration had proposed the establishment of a “confederation” between the PA and Jordan as part of a solution to the Israel-PA conflict.

Abu Rudeineh asserted that the idea of the confederation has been on the agenda of the Palestinian leadership since 1984, and that the PA leadership's position from that time until now stresses that the two-state solution is the prelude to the special relations with Jordan.


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