Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the Oslo Accords, which had been the basis for negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis since 1992, are dead, blaming Israel and Donald Trump's peace plan. Haaretz: Abbas said that "today is the day that the Oslo Accords end.  Israel killed them.  We are an authority without any authority, and an occupation without any cost.  Trump threatens to cut funding to the authority because negotiations have failed.  When the hell did negotiations start?!" He added that "any future negotiations will take place only within the context of the international community, by an international committee created in the framework of an international conference.  Allow me to be clear: [w]e will not accept America[n] leadership of a political process involving negotiations. "U.S. [a]mbassador to Israel David Friedman is a settler who is opposed to the term...(Read Full Post)