Washington – The top Trump administration Middle East peace negotiator said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must choose between “hateful rhetoric” and peace after Abbas described the U.S. ambassador to Israel as the “son of a dog.”
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“The time has come for President Abbas to choose between hateful rhetoric and concrete and practical efforts to improve the quality of life of his people and lead them to peace and prosperity,” Jason Greenblatt said in a statement emailed Monday afternoon to reporters.
“Notwithstanding his highly inappropriate insults against members of the Trump administration, the latest iteration being his insult of my good friend and colleague Ambassador Friedman, we are committed to the Palestinian people and to the changes that must be implemented for peaceful coexistence,” Greenblatt said. “We are finalizing our plan for peace and we will advance it when circumstances are right.”
On Monday, at the opening of a Palestinian leadership meeting, P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas called Friedman a “son of a dog” and a “settler” after noting that the ambassador views settlements as legitimate and supported them as a private citizen.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, leads a three-person team seeking to restart Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The other two members are Greenblatt and Friedman, and Abbas has made clear his dislike for Friedman in the past. In January, in a speech, Abbas called Friedman a “settler” and swore never to meet with him.
Abbas isn’t interested in making peace with any jewish state ,not now not ever.
It’s not hateful rhetoric, he tells his followers when to kill Jews.
This isn’t even smart politics. In case he doesn’t understand, Israel will not move on peace without the express backing of US. Taking these nonsensical bites speaks poorly of his capacity to serve in public office, let alone participate in negotiation.
This is typical for Abbas, whose displays of things intellectual have been quite poor for years.
And he is the peaceful Palestinian in the room. So sad that some people on VIN still naively believe that the Palestinians are peace loving. May the eibshter smite them with yena machla and ALS
What exactly is it going to take before someone is honest enough to say this filthy terrorist has no interest in peace, and let’s stop begging him to come to peace talks so that Israel can then be forced to hand them even more undeserved gifts of land?!?!?!