Trump rejects Macron move as US skips UN summit on Palestinian state

The U.S. skips high-level Palestinian statehood conference at U.N. headquarters as former diplomats argue that unilateral recognition prejudges negotiations needed for lasting Middle East peace.

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Reuters reported last month that a U.S. diplomatic cable had urged governments to skip the "counterproductive" U.N. event, which Washington described as an obstacle to efforts to end the war in Gaza.

"The fact that the French and the Saudis could not be dissuaded from manufacturing this latest stumbling block to peace is a finger in the eye to President Trump," Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital.