Palestinian leader boasts he has ‘slapped’ US in the face

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president says he has “slapped” the U.S. Administration in the face by rejecting President Donald Trump’s promised peace plan.
In a speech Monday, Mahmoud Abbas derisively referred to the U.S. peace plan, known as the “Deal of the Century,” as the “Slap of the Century.”
“They tried to give us the slap of the century, but we slapped them in the face,” he said during a ceremony marking the 15th a