Abbas urges U.N. to replace U.S.
(WorldNews Entertainment)

ISTANBUL -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for the United Nations to replace Washington as a Mideast mediator and suggested he might not cooperate with President Donald Trump`s much-anticipated effort to hammer out an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Abbas` move broke with years of policy built on courting the United States. At a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Turkey, Arab and Muslim leaders `rejected and condemned` Trump`s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel`s capital -- the trigger for Abbas` policy pivot -- but stopped short of backing his more combative approach toward Washington. A possible Palestinian refusal to engage with the U.S. and growing...