By Haaretz Service
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 television reported on Monday.
According to the report, the Palestinian leader told Obama during a telephone conversation last week that he sees no chance of advancing the peace process with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power.
Channel 10 also reported that Abbas communicated to the White House his disappointment in the administration's "capitulation" to Jerusalem on the issue of West Bank settlement construction.
The Palestinians are demanding a cessation of Israeli settlement activity as a precondition to the resumption of peace negotiations.
While the Netanyahu government has committed to not building any new settlements, it has balked at a total freeze which would stunt "natural growth" in existing settlements which Israel plans to annex in any final status accommodation with the Palestinians.
The U.S. and Israel are currently holding talks in hopes of reaching a compromise on the issue.
According to Channel 10, Abbas told the White House that the Palestinian Authority's initial decision to defer a vote on the Goldstone Report at the United Nations Human Rights Council was politically damaging.
The Palestinian Authority agreed to delay debating the report over concerns that going ahead could harm the fragile Middle East peace process. The decision led to street protests by Palestinians and condemnation around the Arab world.
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