Israeli Foreign Policy
“We are not rejectionist,” said Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh of the upcoming U.S. Mideast peace plan. “Our problem is that we know. There are so many people who are blind, but we know—we know where they are taking us.”
Moses Elisaf, an independent candidate, won 50.3 percent of the vote in the mayoral race in the northwestern city of Ioannina.
U.S. President Donald Trump has shown a willingness for talks with Tehran, though he added: “No preconditions. If they want to meet, I’ll meet. Anytime they want.”
Ari Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under U.S. President George W. Bush, tweeted: “The fact that a guest at this meeting took an audio and provided it to the media is disgusting. The guests were fortunate to be invited to a meeting like this. To record it and release it is a betrayal of trust.”
“It may be rejected. Could be in the end, folks will say, ‘It’s not particularly original; it doesn’t particularly work for me.’ That is, ‘It’s got two good things and nine bad things; I’m out,’ ” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a private meeting with Jewish leaders.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said “there’s a difference between the technocrats and ... the people,” adding that “when I speak to Palestinian people, what they want is they want the opportunity to live a better life. They want the opportunity to pay their mortgage.”
In a closed-door meeting in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledges that “this has taken us longer to roll out our plan than I had originally thought it might—to put it lightly.”
Nevertheless, U.S. President Donald Trump says “I think we have a good chance” to move forward with the Mideast peace plan.
“The Bahrain workshop will go on as scheduled, June 25-26,” said a White House official in an email, despite the fact that the Israeli government is in turmoil.
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer were also present.
Senior P.A. official: “The peace plan will be postponed until after the U.S. 2020 elections and end up in the dustbin of history” • Kushner and Greenblatt arrive in Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Criticizing the “failed” previous U.S. summit in Warsaw on Iran, the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv said that the latest summit in Bahrain represents the “persistent desire to replace a comprehensive political solution with economic ‘bonuses.’ ”
