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    Why Trump Threatened to Close Palestine's D.C. Headquarters

    Shuttering its Washington office could undermine the administration’s ambitions for negotiating peace.
    by Grant Rumley Nov 21, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

    This week, the Trump administration to close the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the Palestinians did not immediately halt their campaign at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and agree to engage in the soon-to-be announced peace process. In response, the PLO today that it would halt all contacts with American officials. Though the Palestinians joined the ICC over two years ago—and have yet to successfully bring a case against an Israeli—it was Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s at the UN General Assembly in September in which he called on the ICC to “open an investigation” and prosecute Israeli officials, that reportedly were a bridge too far for

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