Via Barak Ravid in axios.com: President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met on Tuesday in Riyadh with a senior adviser to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting. This was the first meeting between a Trump administration official and a Palestinian official since Novembers election. The sources said the meeting was the result of several weeks of back-channel talks between Trump administration officials and Palestinian leadership. According to one source, Saudi Arabia helped broker the meeting, which took place in its capital.
