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.
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.”
