U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to postpone the long-awaited unveiling ‎of his Middle East peace plan at least until February, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported Wednesday, citing the recent political crisis in Israel as the reason.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “prefers no ‎announcement of the plan whatsoever, especially now, amid the ‎recent developments in the region and the political ‎crisis in Israel,” ‎an unnamed source told the newspaper, adding that Trump’s ‎advisers have recommended he postpone unveiling the plan.‎

The east Jerusalem-based newspaper reported that it was the Israeli ‎Ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer, who recommended that ‎Trump shelve the plan for the time being, given the political pressures ‎Netanyahu’s government now faces. ‎

Dermer is one of the officials privy to all the details of the plan, ‎which Trump has dubbed the “deal of the century,” the report said. ‎As such, he has been working closely with senior White House ‎adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. Special Representative for ‎International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, as well as with U.S. ‎Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. ‎

Trump has previously stated that he would ‎support any plan that would resolve the Israeli-‎Palestinian conflict, and in September he came ‎out in support of the two-state solution.‎

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