Trump to meet with Abbas in Bethlehem, visit Yad Vashem

“And in today’s attack, it was mostly innocent children”.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in a speech here that he believes both Israelis and Palestinian leaders “are ready to reach for peace”. “Everyone knows that the biggest obstacle to attaining peace is the unbridled incitement by the Palestinian Authority towards Jews, and I have no doubt President Trump understands that”.

Khaldi says that “this visit will open the way for relaunching the peace process”.

“(Trump) said that he understands the significance of the Western Wall for the Jewish people and that’s why he chose to visit here during his first trip to Israel.

The shoe-leather tasks of day-to-day discussions with leaders in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman and the Gulf to gather input and regional perspective has been handled by Jason Greenblatt, a real-estate lawyer and long-term Trump loyalist.

“Netanyahu doesn’t invite his own cabinet to this dinner”, said David Makovsky, an expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations at the Washington Institute in Washington. FILE – In a Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea reso. “He wants peace”, he said.

Later on Tuesday Mr Trump will return to Jerusalem to visit the Vad Yashem Holocaust memorial and make a speech at the Israel Museum.

He says “that would be an incredible accomplishment”.

Israeli officials say they are largely in the dark about what ideas Trump might present for peace or what concessions he may demand. While appreciating Trump finding the time to visit, Yad Vashem said it hoped his next visit would allow also for a tour of the museum.

A wave of unrest that broke out in October 2015 has claimed the lives of 266 Palestinians, 41 Israelis, two Americans, two Jordanians, an Eritrean, a Sudanese and a Briton, according to an AFP count.

Trump and Abbas met earlier this month at the White House. As he spoke, the death toll in the attack at an Ariana Grande concert had climbed to 22.

Kushner’s special status as both a Trump family member and a top adviser was evident during the trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel. “This wicked ideology must be obliterated”.

He said all civilized nations must be united in the fight against terror, and he said his foreign trip is focused on that goal.

President Donald Trump has arrived in Bethlehem for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (mahk-MOOD’ ah-BAHS’).

The leaders are expected to discuss resuming long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Trump shocked longtime observers of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process earlier this year when he declined to endorse a two-state solution to the conflict, breaking with stated USA policy under his past two predecessors, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The duo was received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara who walked the red carpet along with their guests.

Trump’s brief journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem offered a visual reminder of the complexities of the conflict.

Netanyahu has expressed tentative support for parts of the initiative, but there are many caveats on the Israeli side, including how to resolve the ever more complex refugee issue and whether Israel would withdraw from the Golan Heights, strategic territory that Israel took from Syria in the 1967 war.

Bethlehem is ringed by the barrier on three sides.

Meanwhile, a lot of the social media users are also drawing comparisons between Donald and Melania Trump and former president Barack Obama and Michelle.

The two leaders will meet in the West Bank.

Bennett ended his remarks by saying that Trump can “make history” if he does so. Still, White House officials have downplayed expectations for a significant breakthrough on this trip.

“That Palestinians have to negotiate their freedom and prove ourselves worthy of freedom is repugnant”, Buttu added, arguing that Trump should use its multi-billion dollar financial support to Israel as weight to pressure it from ending its occupation of Palestinian territory. And he sent a signal of solidarity to an ally he’s pushing to work harder toward peace with the Palestinians. Trump himself never commented.

“I had a meeting this morning with [Palestinian] President Abbas”. I can tell you also that he is reaching for peace. But Trump hasn’t been accused of doing that. He also faces difficulties at home, where he is struggling to contain a scandal after firing James Comey as Federal Bureau of Investigation director two weeks ago.