Abbas: Trump’s “deal of the century is the Balfour Promise,” which “the US and Britain created”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "We consider this deal the culmination of the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration). It is what they intended [to reach]… This is the deal of the century that relies on the Balfour Promise, which the US and Britain created.
Some are surprised – the US? Yes, the US and Britain, because the US is the one that formulated [the Balfour Promise] in agreement with Britain… This is the Balfour Promise that America established, and the US has also begun to implement it now…"
Abbas made these remarks in his first response to US President Trump’s revelation of his Middle East peace plan – the deal of the century – on Jan. 28, 2020.