(JTA) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned down a U.S. peace initiative presented to him during a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Ramallah, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported, citing a "source familiar with the details." The new American initiative to restart peace talks included designating eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state, halting settlement construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and giving up the demand for a Palestinian "right of return."
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