U.S. president vows to ‘do everything’ for Mideast peace

“It was a awful, bad thing for the United States to enter that deal, and believe me, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, that I can tell you”, Trump said. “Never mentioned during that conversation. Their demands are humane and just, and I call on the Israeli government to respond to these legitimate humanitarian demands”, said Abbas.

“The peace we seek is a genuine and durable one in which the Jewish state is recognised, security remains in Israel’s hands and the conflict ends once and for all”, Netanyahu said. Trump has a bad habit of tacitly confirming bad news, seemingly by accident, at times.

As the two leaders left, Netanyahu reiterated that intelligence sharing was “terrific“, before adding, “And it’s never been better”. Netanyahu had a frosty relationship with former U.S. President Barack Obama, but has lavished praise on Trump throughout his visit.

A top Hamas official, Mushir al-Masri, also censured Trump’s provocative remarks, saying the U.S. president was “aligning himself with the policies of the [Israeli] occupier” regime. The issue is so contentious that the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and ruled that Jerusalem-born Americans can’t list Israel as their birthplace on their passports.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said “The wall is part of Jerusalem” but did not elaborate any further.

“I am grateful to have experienced a deeply meaningful visit to the holiest site of my faith and to leave a private note of prayer”, she posted on social media shortly after the visit.

Haley’s statement is controversial, and not only because of the Western Wall.

President Donald Trump has landed in Tel Aviv ahead of talks during the second leg of his first foreign tour.

He is under pressure after declaring in March that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “maybe not as hard as people have thought”. There are plenty of political landmines for a president to stumble over, particularly one who is known to go off-script.

Specifically, Trump chose to share intelligence that Israel had provided the United States – on the condition that it not be shared without Israeli permission – with the Russian government.

“It doesn’t look like Trump does much homework”.

“The ties of the Jewish people to this Holy Land are ancient and eternal”, Trump said at the Israel Museum.

On Monday, the press gave Trump a chance to deny or ignore that report. The duo was received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara who walked the red carpet along with their guests. I will call them losers from now on, because that is what they are: losers. Now a White House official says “We don’t think it would be wise to do it at this time“.

“I’ve heard it’s one of the toughest deals of all, but I have a feeling we will get there eventually, I hope”, he said.

President Donald Trump began his remarks Tuesday in the historic West Bank town of Bethlehem by calling the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in the British city of Manchester hours earlier a “loser” – and said that will be his preferred term from now on for terrorist killers.

Trump has said he wants to broker a deal that has proven elusive for the past two decades.

The George W. Bush administration also routinely captioned photos and listed the city on schedules and in news releases as simply “Jerusalem“.

Trump, who is Protestant, is the first United States president to have Jewish members of his immediate family.