Mahmoud Abbas has called America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “a slap in the face”.
The Palestinian President told a meeting of senior leaders in Ramallah that the Oslo peace process was over, saying “Israel ended Oslo”.
He also said the Palestinian Authority had been offered the village of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of east Jerusalem, as its capital.
This is not the first time that Abu Dis has been proposed as the centre of a Palestinian state – at one point construction of a Palestinian parliament building was initiated there, only to be abandoned halfway through.
