1 \\ President Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner said the U.S. expects the Palestinian leadership to go back to the negotiations table after Israel gave up on its annexation plans as part of the U.S. brokered Israel-UAE Normalization deal

2 \\ Why it matters: The Palestinian leadership refused to speak to the White House since Trump’s December 2017 Jerusalem announcement. The relations have further deteriorated since then and the Palestinians rejected the Trump plan out of hand and refused to engage with the WH

3 \\ Kushner said in a call with reporters the Palestinians got what they wanted on annexation but still refuse to engage: “The Palestinian leadership’s credibility is falling to an all time low. There is a lot of frustration about the Palestinian leadership from their allies"

4 \\ Trump’s senior adviser said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gave assurances to the U.S. that he will not move forward with annexation in the West Bank without the White House consent. “We are not going to give him such consent for some time”, Kushner stressed

5 \\ Kushner added the U.S. expects that Israel focuses now on building relationships with the Arab World and not on annexation. “Israel controls the territories anyway so there is not urgency to move forward with annexation”, he said