What's wrong with Palestinian surrender, Israel's UN envoy asks

Israel's UN ambassador on Monday urged Palestinians to surrender their struggle for a homeland in exchange for economic benefits as the United States prepared to roll out part of a peace plan promising billions of dollars.

Palestinian leaders have said the US plan will be tantamount to surrender and declared President Donald Trump's initiative as dead on arrival.

"I ask: What's wrong with Palestinian surrender?" wrote Ambassador Danny Danon in a New York Times op-ed.

"Surrender is the recognition that in a contest, staying the course will prove costlier than submission."

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is set to open the conference in Bahrain later Monday to unveil plans for raising USD 50 billion in investment for the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours.

"The Palestinians have little to lose and everything to gain by putting down the sword and accepting the olive branch," wrote Danon.

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat "misleadingly suggests that a 'surrender' will lead to .