In a speech before the United Nations Security Council, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged President Trump to disavow his Mideast peace plan and seek a return to negotiations based on existing UN resolutions. Those resolutions call for a two-state solution broadly following pre-1967 borders.

For more, we turn to CGTN’s Stephanie Freid in Tel Aviv.

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• Jonathan Broder covered the Middle East as a foreign correspondent and currently a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine.
• Matthew RJ Brodsky is a Senior Fellow with the Gold Institute for International Strategy and the Security Studies Group.
• Graeme Bannerman is the founder of Bannerman Associates and a former Middle East analyst for the US State Department.
• Ali Abunimah is an author and co-founder of “The Electronic Intifada.”

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Abbas at UN: US offers Palestinians ‘Swiss cheese’ state https://t.co/PGNURnNYpe pic.twitter.com/FFO7IkA1sK

— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) February 11, 2020

Israeli ambassador to the UN tells Security Council peace can't be reached if 'Abbas remains in his position'https://t.co/xeNk5ri9Q7

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) February 11, 2020

President Trump’s Israel-Palestine peace plan undermines the stability of Jordan, increasing the threat of hostile forces on Israel’s eastern border. https://t.co/Qvtu8dPCcj

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) February 11, 2020