Arab League rejects Trump's Middle East plan

that there will be no relations at all with them and the United States, including security ties," he said. The Western-backed Palestinian leadership has been under mounting pressure from ordinary Palestinians and its rivals in Hamas to cut off security ties with the two countries, or even dismantle the increasingly unpopular Palestinian Authority.Reporting from Ramallah, Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim said many Palestinians there "might not even know that there is an Arab league meeting taking place". "It doesn't seem that the street is holding so much hope," she said.Abbas said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in East Jerusalem.Trump's plan also proposes making Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem, the capital of a future Palestinian state, which was also instantly rejected by the Palestinians.The Arab League's head, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said on Wednesday an initial study of the plan's political framework showed that it "ignored legitimate Palestinian rights in the territories".He said the Palestinian response would be key in shaping a "collective Arab position" on the plan, which he noted was a "non-binding US vision".In a tacit sign of support for the US initiative, ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Oman attended the unveiling of the plan in Washington. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Arab states that are close US allies, said they appreciated Trump's efforts and called for renewed negotiations without commenting on the plan's contents.Egypt urged in a statement Israelis and Palestinians to "carefully study" the plan.