Posted on 12/10/2017 1:46:51 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The Trump administration chastised the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, expressed regret that PA leaders would not meet with Vice President Mike Pence during his upcoming visit to Israel this month, following President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week and plans to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Ahead of President Trump’s declaration Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority warned that such a move would mark the end of any hopes for a negotiated settlement between Israel and the PA during the Trump administration.
Following Trump’s statement last week, the PA announced that Vice President Mike Pence, slated to visit Israel next week, would not be welcomed by PA officials. Pence had been slated to meet with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.
Senior Fatah party member Jibril Rajoub said Thursday that the meeting would not take place, saying that Pence “is unwelcome in Palestine”.
“In the name of Fatah I say that we will not welcome Trump’s deputy in the Palestinian Territories. He asked to meet (Abbas) on the 19th of this month in Bethlehem, such a meeting will not take place,” Reuters reported Rajoub as saying.
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A day later, the White House issued its own response, criticizing the PA for nixing the Pence-Abbas meeting.
“It’s unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region” said Pence’s deputy chief of staff, Jarrod Agen, “but the administration remains undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians and our peace team remains hard at work putting together a plan.”
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Alternative headline:
‘Unfortunate Pennsylvania chooses to miss yet another opportunity’
The settles it once again...the palis are some sort of mutant malignancies on civil society.
I thought it was about some poor, hapless personal assistant.
I knew DJT made it known well before his announcement that the Jerusalem recognition statement was a done deal. But I sincerely hope that the statement was preceded by personal phone calls from DJT to each and every Middle East emir and potentate. If not, both he and his foreign policy team really dropped the ball.
Progress toward peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has been stalled for many, many years. Accomplishments to date are zero.
So we are traveling from "no hope" to "no hope."
What else is new?
At least the PA has learned that a promise made by this president is a promise kept. Maybe they will take that to the negotiation table when they mature a little, and accept reality of 3,000 years.
Or maybe its the Port Authority...
He is probably thrilled he doesn’t have to meet with any terrorist .
I knew DJT made it known well before his announcement that the Jerusalem recognition statement was a done deal. But I sincerely hope that the statement was preceded by personal phone calls from DJT to each and every Middle East emir and potentate. If not, both he and his foreign policy team really dropped the ball.
I knew DJT made it known well before his announcement that the Jerusalem recognition statement was a done deal. But I sincerely hope that the statement was preceded by personal phone calls from DJT to each and every Middle East emir and potentate. If not, both he and his foreign policy team really dropped the ball.
The Palis are Nazi’s and want Israel exterminated, followed by the Big Satan.
Penn.; Pa.; Penna.
Never buy into that Postal Service State Code baloney.
The Palies never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Could have been a physician assistant...
Pence is “unwelcome in Palestine”!!??? Where the f*** is that?
Pornographic Alias?
This is insanity. The first time I heard discussion (in a classroom) about the troubling divide between Israel and the neer do wells was in 1963. A sharp classmate discussed what she had read in the New Yorker. I did not know what a newyorker was nor anything about problems somewhere far away.
So from 1963 to now, just what has been resolved? It will not be until Israel surrenders to the craven mobs all sovereignty, all western freedom and standard of living and the majority of their lives.
Give it up. Get over it you stinking govt and pseudo-elites and lobbyists—is their nothing productive you can do with your mostly worthless lives other than chase your tails?
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It’s really quit a hard hittig insult to the Palestinians. It seems that Trump is a master at it. There is a local saying in Jerusalem that “Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity “.
So it’s a hot button....
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