Mansour Abbas' meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman did not touch on efforts to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians, the Ra'am party leader said, contradicting the Jordanian leader's claim in an interview with Israel Radio, Thursday.
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"I chose to behave in a stately manner and talk about the political process in Arab society. To say the meeting is part of a diplomatic process? Never happened," Abbas said.
The Tuesday meeting was held at Abbas' request and with the approval of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The Jordanian Royal Palace said in a statement that Abdullah and Mansour Abbas discussed "the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and ways to advance the peace process." The king restated his commitment to a two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Ra'am leader also commented on reports of his party's alleged Hamas ties.
"There are no ties. We in the Islamic Movement have been operating for decades according to Israeli law, and we have supervision. If there was something unusual or illegal, everyone would know. The report I set a killer up with an attorney – fake news."
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