Why Middle East peace starts in Saudi Arabia

But obstacles have emerged that may complicate the relationship between the White House and the Israel.

“You tricked me in [Washington] DC!”

“In this week’s column for the Jerusalem Post, Glick said President Trump is carrying on Obama’s polices when it comes to Israelis and Palestinians, policies that are “…substantively all but indistinguishable from those of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush before him”.

It is not clear if Trump’s alleged scorning of Abbas impacted the Palestinian government’s commitment to resuming peace talks with Israel.

The Israeli PM talked about peace several times alongside Trump.

The leader of Peace Now told the crowd of protesters that Prime Minister Netanyahu had “forgotten what it’s like to be Zionist”.

However, “in the hours since he left, everybody on both sides [of the Israeli aisle] are claiming to be happy”. It promised Arab recognition of Israel in exchange for a Palestinian state.”The conflict is not between religions”, Abbas said.

US President Trump reportedly lashed out at Palestinian leader Abbas during their meeting in Bethlehem on May 23.

While the recent firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey and an inquiry into ties between his campaign and Russian Federation were subjects Mr Trump wanted to avoid discussing, that imperative was only heightened by revelations in the closing days of the trip about the FBI’s growing interest in engagement with Russian Federation by Mr Trump’s son-in- law Jared Kushner. “And we also gave them an ability to continue with terror and with all of the things they’ve been doing”.

“There are those who present a false choice”, Trump added. Together, they are responsible for the emergence and support to outfits such as ISIS and Nusra Front, earlier known as Al-Qaida, which have wreaked havoc in Syria. They didn’t. On the contrary, the cash payments and the lifting of economic sanctions – Tehran’s reward for the nuclear deal – have only given its geopolitical thrusts more power and reach. “This is a battle between good and evil”, is something new that Trump said, is questionable.

Second, the Riyadh Declaration welcomed the creation of the “Islamic Military Coalition” (IMC) to combat terrorism, with a reserve force of 34,000 troops (called a Sunni NATO by some observers), to be contributed by the 55 Muslim-majority states mentioned above.

The Zionist Organization of America issued a statement critical of the 10-year, $380 billion American arms sale to Saudi Arabia that Trump announced during his visit there. Samaria Regional Council Mayor Yossi Dagan told Trump administration officials that if they pressure Netanyahu too much, he will fall.

Wisdom dictates that the U.S. should build on the Iran deal, and work with Iran to help bring an end to the horrifying civil war in Syria and stop the senseless proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen and Iraq, from which neither side can emerge victorious.

“There’s a level of enthusiasm for Trump in the region”.

Fifty years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are still languishing in refugee camps in Lebanon.