Egypt coordinates positions with Palestinian Authority before Abbas meets Trump

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has urged the US to help restart negoti­ations between Israel and the ­Palestinians, saying it is “important that the US returns to play an ­active role in efforts to resume ­negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel,” according to AFP. This came as Egypt and the Palestinian Authority coordinated their positions in the meeting between El Sisi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, JPost reports. The meeting took place ahead of Abbas’ planned meeting with US President Donald Trump in which a peace plan is likely to be presented. JPost says the peace plan “would outline an independent Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital.”