this is the state that they will give us it s like a piece of swiss cheese really who among you would accept a similar state in similar conditions the palestinians had wanted to get the security council to vote on the trump plan isolating the united states but washington full back in recent days to new series the current arab member of the security council in the chair for the meeting of a deputy ambassador that s because their ambassador who d been working on a draft resolution with the palestinians was fired last week under a u.s. pressure. after the security council meeting a bizarre media event president abbas with former israeli prime minister ehud olmert the president made it clear olmert was the kind of man he could do business with even though the former prime minister jailed for corruption has been in office for a decade president abbas left without taking any questions olmert stayed with the palestinians might have preferred he didn t he said he wouldn t criticize t