The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has said that a proposal for a long awaited peace plan between Israelis and Palestinians is near completion. “The plan wont be loved by either side. And it wont be hated by either side,” she said. The news came as Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz congratulated President Donald Trump for announcing that the US embassy would move to Jerusalem for Israel’s 70th anniversary. “There is no greater gift than that! The most just and correct move. Thanks friend!” Katz said in a Twitter posting, according to Reuters. AFP also quoted a US official as saying that Washington will relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on May 14. Trumps two top envoys on the Middle East, son-in-law Jared Kushner and adviser Jason Greenblatt, are “still going back and forth," Haley said. Her revelations came after questioning by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics chief’s David Axelrod -- a former senior advisor to Trumps predecessor Barack Obama -- about the USs controversial decision to declare Jerusalem as Israels capital. During a rare UN Security Council address on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international conference to be held by mid-2018 to kick-start the stalled peace process with Israel and create a "multilateral mechanism" to oversee it. But Haley snapped back, defending Trump’s decision on the embassy move and warning against a “path of absolutist demands, hateful rhetoric, and incitement to violence.” “The problem is that the UN has proven itself time and again to be a grossly biased organization when it comes to Israel,” she told the Security Council. This “has actually made the problem more difficult to solve.” “The United States knows the Palestinian leadership was very unhappy with the decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem. You don’t have to like that decision. You don’t have to praise it,” she said. “But know this: that decision will not change,” said Haley, who spoke after Abbas left the chamber.
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