cause God knows, goathumpers NEVER lie... won't be worth the paper it's written on
Posted on 05/12/2017 4:27:23 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has crossed the Rubicon and voiced “unprecedented” readiness to reach a peace deal with Israel, sources close to the efforts to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinians have told The Jerusalem Post.
Abbas, according to the sources, made this clear to President Donald Trump during their meeting at the White House last week. The president plans to use his trip to Israel later this month to receive assurances from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he, too, is committed to a peace agreement.
Since his meeting with Trump last week, Abbas has changed his rhetoric, issuing a number of statements meant to reflect flexibility on previous demands. He has, for example, said that he would renew the talks under Trump’s auspices without preconditions. In the past, he had said he would not negotiate with Netanyahu without a freeze to settlement construction.
He has also sent his advisers to the press to declare that the Palestinians are prepared to negotiate land swaps with Israel, a recognition that some West Bank settlements will remain part of Israel in the framework of a future deal.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, has largely remained quiet. The strategy within the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem seems to be to wait and hope not to be blamed for preventing the success of the peace talks Trump is planning to restart following his visit on May 22.
Jerusalem Post Arab-Israeli Conflict ‘ABBAS HAS DECIDED TO SIGN PEACE DEAL WITH ISRAEL’
BYYAAKOV KATZ MAY 12, 2017 00:00 Trump planning to launch new round of talks during his upcoming visit.
Trump Abbas Donald Trump welcomes Mahmoud Abbas to White House in Washington , May 3, 2017. (photo credit:REUTERS)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has crossed the Rubicon and voiced “unprecedented” readiness to reach a peace deal with Israel, sources close to the efforts to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinians have told The Jerusalem Post.
Abbas, according to the sources, made this clear to President Donald Trump during their meeting at the White House last week. The president plans to use his trip to Israel later this month to receive assurances from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he, too, is committed to a peace agreement.
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Since his meeting with Trump last week, Abbas has changed his rhetoric, issuing a number of statements meant to reflect flexibility on previous demands. He has, for example, said that he would renew the talks under Trump’s auspices without preconditions. In the past, he had said he would not negotiate with Netanyahu without a freeze to settlement construction.
He has also sent his advisers to the press to declare that the Palestinians are prepared to negotiate land swaps with Israel, a recognition that some West Bank settlements will remain part of Israel in the framework of a future deal.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, has largely remained quiet. The strategy within the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem seems to be to wait and hope not to be blamed for preventing the success of the peace talks Trump is planning to restart following his visit on May 22.
As reported earlier this week in Maariv and the Post, the person responsible for this change in Abbas is Ronald Lauder, the American billionaire and head of the World Jewish Congress, who is one of the closest people to Trump. Lauder has publicly said that he has known Trump for over 50 years and that he is a “great and true friend” of Israel.
Before Abbas met with Trump last week, he stopped by Lauder’s house for dinner and got briefed on ways to win over the president. To some, it seems that Lauder has bypassed Sheldon Adelson as the most influential Jew in Trump’s circle.
Lauder has been pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal for years and was in Cairo two months ago for a meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ahead of the Egyptian leader’s visit to the White House. Lauder, sources say, seems to have been tapped by the president as something of a semi-official envoy to the region with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Politicians who spoke to Lauder at Sunday’s Jerusalem Post Conference in New York later told the Post that he told them about his meeting with Abbas. At the same time, Netanyahu told confidants that he was furious over the American Jewish leader’s involvement.
“You don’t understand how much influence he has over Trump,” the prime minister told a confidant in a private conversation this week.
“Out of the people around Trump, he is my biggest challenge to overcome.”
That’ll last long...
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The word on the street is that the least influential Jew is Senator Schumer
taqiyya
Of the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune. He’s been a major player for a long time. He was close to Reagan.
Likely this is just more Arab BS. Be tough and they’ll kiss your ass, and then knife you at first opportunity. Persuaded of Trump’s toughness, they’ll be nice and quiet for a long time, but no chance they’ll change how the raise their children.
I am uncomfortable with this because during the campaign trump said he would ‘force israel”. He lacks a basic understanding of what Sovereign Nation means.. Dangerous ideology, for Israel and for our Sovereign Nation.
cause God knows, goathumpers NEVER lie... won't be worth the paper it's written on
Yep, Muslims lie to Infidels...it’s what they do.
Really. Arafat signed BJs peace deal, too. Next.
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Its a start. If it happens I hope lauder gets the credit he deserves
Ronald Lauder’s mom founded a makeup company Estee Lauder. He is rich.
Any deal signed with the PA is worthless. They will repudiate it later (if a friendlier Administration comes to power). Plus Abbas has no real power and barely speaks for less than half the Palestinians. Which is part of the problem. No one speaks for ALL the Palestinians.
There’s a ‘start’ every time some new American president or secretary of state waves around some cash and pledges ‘negotiations’.
Well they did sell more records than The Beatles.
This is BAAAAAD! NO deal!
Ron Lauder made a HUGE mistake with his treachery.
“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: “ Isaiah 28:15
More like Hudnah. But definitely some Taqiyya.
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