Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ latest threat to submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council imposing a peace deal on Israel has reportedly been rebuffed by Secretary of State John Kerry, according to a report today in The Times of Israel.

Abbas called Kerry Sunday night to inform him of the Palestinian plans to submit the bid, which calls for an Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 lines by the end of 2017, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

An unnamed official said Kerry objected to the move during their phone conversation, and urged Abbas to delay the bid until after Israeli elections in March, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

The resolution would also call for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

The Times also cited a report that Kerry had threatened Abbas with political and economic sanctions should he continue his unilateral UN bid for statehood. A similar report was cited by The Jerusalem Post in November, but its accuracy is uncertain.

There is bipartisan opposition to unilateral Palestinian moves in both houses of Congress. Two weeks ago Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) jointly authored a letter to the State Department urging the State Department to veto any unilateral Palestinian statehood resolutions in the U.N. The Senate latter was followed by one written by Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)  similarly urging the administration to veto any such resolutions.

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