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Trump Plays Peacemaker, Hosting Abbas at the White House

2017-05-04

[An Nahar] President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
will play peacemaker at the White House on Wednesday, meeting with Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
as part of an effort to end the long-running Paleostinian-Israeli conflict.

After hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, the self-styled deal-maker-in-chief will host Abbas for the first time since coming to office.

"The President's ultimate goal is to establish peace in the region," said White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

That long-shot effort -- which has eluded US presidents since the 1970s -- got off to a rocky start early in Trump's adminstration.

Trump renounced US support for a Paleostinian state and vowed to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, breaking two tenets of US policy held for decades.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said Trump is still "giving serious consideration into moving the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."

That move would likely spark Paleostinian fury and is privately seen by many in the Israel and US security establishments as needlessly inflammatory.

Full text of Trump-Abbas joint White House statements

Posted by:Fred

#4 In fairness, he invited Marwan Barghouti to the same White House dinner, but he was ...unavailable

Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-04 22:47

#3 It looks to me like grooming. First President Trump adamantly refused to have any contact with Mr. Abbas or his people, while having long, cozy phone conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and meetings and phone conversations with everyone else. Then, although President Trump's envoy went on a listening tour, and at some point afterward an appointment with the White House was made, nothing really happened until President Abbas announced the reduction of salaries to PA staff in Gaza, reducing Hamas cash flow, and then that the PA would no longer pay the Gaza electric bill, further reducing Hamas's cash flow. While the public part of the meeting was all flattery stroking the Palestinian ego, according to The Times of Israel today, in private he was slapped around a bit:

During the Wednesday meeting, Trump urged Abbas to stop incitement, crack down on terrorism, and “resolve” his West Bank government’s policy of making payments to families of Israeli-held security prisoners.

“President Trump raised his concerns about payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have committed terrorist acts, and to their families, and emphasized the need to resolve this issue,” the White House said in a readout of the two leaders’ first face-to-face meeting.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-04 19:49

#2 Because, at least the people who run the World, find the idea of Jewish state deeply unnatural?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-04 12:19

#1 Why does every flippin' president take on this intractable problem? Seriously, the guys who live in the neighborhood clearly don't mind the status quo, so why waste our time and clout trying to impose our idealistic will? We've got bigger fish to fry.

Posted by: Whitch Turkeyneck3879 2017-05-04 11:22

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