Trump Meets Netanyahu: 'If Palestinians Don't Return to Table, There Won't Be Peace'

[DonViejo]

Source: Haaretz




Trump tells reporters at White House: 'I may come to Jerusalem for embassy dedication in May' ■ Netanyahu compares Trump to Cyrus, Balfour, Truman

Noa Landau (Washington) Mar 05, 2018 8:12 PM

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday for their fifth meeting in the last year. During their joint remarks, Trump warned that there won't be peace if the Palestinians refuse to return to the negotiating table.

The meeting takes place as Israel is rocked by the latest dramatic development in the Netanyahu corruption scandals: A third cofidant turned state's evidence.

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Trump said that "no one could get past Jerusalem, we've taken it off the table," adding that he believes the Palestinians intend to return to the negotiating table, "and if they don't, there will be no peace."

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Netanyahu compared Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital to Cyrus the Great ending the Babylonian exile, the Balfour Declaration and Harry Truman's recognition of the State of Israel in 1948. He added that "the biggest challenge in the Middle East is Iran. It must be stopped."


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. As if Jewish people didnt have enough problems, now they have to have trump as

a so called ally, he is anything but.

[CatMor]

2. Melania is as strange looking as trump....

[onecent]

3. Wouldn't you think she take the other lady on a tour...or go have a

milkshake....or a vodka and rum....Melania always looks sad now....

[CatMor]

4. Maybe she came to the realization trump doesn't belong..

in the White House and neither does she. Therefore the sad look all the time.

[onecent]

11. Probably right!!

[leftynyc]

16. I think it's more

that she found out - along with the entire world - that he banged a porn star without a condom a month after she gave birth to Barron. Can't even imagine what that must be like.

[Cold War Spook]

5. Forget it

Three things have to happen for there to be peace. Palestinians have to have East Jerusalem as their capitol, Arab countries have to recognize Israel's right to exist and all Jewish people in settlements on Palestinian land have to leave.

[Mosby]

8. Clinton and Obama supported land swaps

To resolve the settlement issue. The reality is that housing is very expensive in Israel, which is what has been driving the settlement growth. The religious settlers are actually a small part of the Israeli population in the WB, which includes Israeli Arabs, Druze etc.

I'm curious about your statement, do you think Jews should be able to live in the future state of Palestine or is that a bridge too far?

As a progressive, are you OK with a Muslim only country?

[dembotoz]

9. land is also expensive on our west coast and yet we do not steal van couver bc

or does trump try that next week

[Mosby]

10. no one is stealing land

There is no such thing as "Palestinian land".

Read UN security council resolutions 242 and 338. Nothing there about Palestinians.

If they want a country they need to negotiate. Simple as that.

[Bettie]

12. So, in your mind

it is OK for people to bulldoze people's property and livelihood (Olive Groves) in the dead of night and move a trailer there declaring the land theirs?

What do you propose they do with the people already living there? Or do they have no right at all to live because those settlers wanted some free land and it is easy to steal it from people who have little recourse?

[dembotoz]

13. Amen Bettie

My natural inclination is to support Israel..
The default setting.. nutty Yahoo is changing that...

[Bettie]

14. It is possible to believe Israel should exist

and believe that they are treating the Palestinian population shamefully.

Because both are true.

[Cold War Spook]

15. I think they can

as long as they are buying or renting and not saying this is now part of Israel. It won't happen as long as Muslims are not treated as equals in Israel. But as long as as all religions and colors are not treated equally in the US it is a long shot. By that, I don't mean that Arabs are waiting to see that Muslims are treated equally in US, but since we have the problems we have, I can't have much hope for the Middle East.

[Steviehh]

6. Netanyahu

Here we are, stuk in the middle BiBi.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Translated:

If the Palestinians don't give up their right to their land, there will be no peace.