Israeli Foreign Policy
“It could become a state, as the president said, but that requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others,” said U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton.
“I like the two-state solution,” Trump said to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “That’s what I think works best. I don’t even have to speak to anybody; that’s my feeling.”
Haifa’s growing port, located close to a naval base, will be managed by one Chinese company, while a second port in Ashdod, also near a naval base, is being constructed by a second Chinese firm.
Trump’s top envoy to the Middle East has a herculean task before him: to help negotiate the peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Although the agreement itself didn’t call for the creation of an official Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, subsequent Israeli proposals over the years did allow for such an entity to come into being. All of those offers, however, were rejected by the Palestinian leadership.
“I have read the plan. It is thoroughly done. It is well-thought-out from both sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
U.S. envoy Greenblatt says, “Palestinian Authority can’t criticize from the sidelines” days after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas says Israel and Hamas will sign a deal “over my dead body.”
Faltering Hamas-Fatah reconciliation talks in Cairo lead rival Palestinian factions to accuse each other of failing the Palestinian people.
This development comes a year after Rubicon members vandalized the Israeli embassy in Greece to protest Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
“From time to time, he says something about this and [the peace plan] might come,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The Americans are thinking about it ... when they propose it we will see.”
This past year, nearly 400,000 foreigners traveled to Zanzibar. Among them, of course, are Jews, including thousands of Israelis. Zanzibar is one of only two sub-Saharan African countries with direct flights from Israel.
U.S. President Donald Trump will only unveil an “agenda for peace” at the U.N. General Assembly meeting next month, due to difficulties encountered by his peace team in recent months and the president’s current legal troubles, a source tells Israel Hayom.
