"A senior Palestinian source who spoke on condition of anonymity said a decision had been reached after lengthy negotiations at top PA levels, including consultations with its team of Trump experts, to present Kushner and Greenblatt with a clear ultimatum: Unless progress is made within 45 days on launching talks with the Israelis, the Palestinians will consider themselves no longer committed to the US channel and will turn to an alternative plan on which they have been working for the past two years...
'If we don't hear within a month and a half that the American team has stopped talking and started doing, Abbas intends to mobilize anyone and everyone he can for the UN General Assembly session on the establishment of a Palestinian state, regardless of the Israeli and American reactions,' said the official from Ramallah...
This past month, the PA has renewed its contacts with European states and other states that backed it at previous UN votes. Ties with China have also grown considerably closer. President Xi Jinping told Abbas during a visit to Beijing last month that China plans to initiate a peace plan of its own to advance talks between Israel and the Palestinians..."