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For Palestine’s negotiations strategy to work, Gulf must be united

Reports about an end of the nearly four-year Gulf crisis pitting a Saudi-led bloc of nations against Qatar is a good omen for the Palestinians, who are seeking to restart the stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process.
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Regardless of whether the Donald Trump administration is credited with the Saudi-Qatari rapprochement, peace in the Gulf is a net gain for Palestine.

Hussein al-Sheikh, the powerful member of the Fatah Central Committee and minister of civil affairs in the Palestinian government, tweeted Dec. 3 about the support of the Palestinian leadership. “The #Palestinian leadership welcomes any Arab-Arab rapprochement and the rejection of differences, because we believe that the #Arab position’s unity will serve the Palestinian cause and the causes of our Arab nation.”

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