Palestinian leader attacks Trump, calling his peace deal the ‘slap of the century’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/palestinian-leader-attacks-trump

Abbas was addressing members of the Palestinian Central Council as they began to discuss their response to the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

He said Palestinians were being offered the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis as the capital of their future state, rather than East Jerusalem, which most of the international community considers illegally occupied by Israel. The area sits outside Israel's security barrier and has been floated but rejected as a capital for a Palestinian state in previous negotiations. 

"We said no to Trump," Abbas said. "We won't accept his project; his deal of the century is the slap of the century, and we will respond."