Middle East
U.S. President Trump’s Mideast peace envoy lashes out on twitter at P.A. daily after official newspaper runs column comparing him to a “monogoloid • “The comments are disgusting and demonstrate a complete disregard for the dignity of every human life,” says Greenblatt.
Israeli communities in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria would remain in place, but not be expanded. Security checkpoints would be reduced, allowing for more freedom of movement for people and goods.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is on a trip to the Middle East this week with stops in includes the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia to promote the Trump administration’s upcoming peace plan regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Copies of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” are on sale at the 2019 Muscat International Book Fair, which is underway until March 2.
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s concerns about the Kushner interview on Sky News Arabia: “There’s a clear and immediate danger in front of us: the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
It is possible that both sides are also cooperating on covert operations in Iran, according to Mideast analysts.
Yusuf Bin Alawi said what has been an apparent warming of relations between the two is “a peaceful process to find a settlement for the Palestinian cause that guarantees their rights and the interests of all.”
Former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Al-Maliki said in a meeting with educators that aired on Afaq TV (Iraq) on Feb. 12 that Iraqi society is under “a dangerous attack” in the form of moral depravity that is taking place in the universities and elsewhere.
For the first time since the 1991 Madrid Conference, Arab nations sat down with Israel and announced cooperation on fighting Iran, making clear that the Israeli Palestinian conflict does not need to be resolved first as a condition for normalization.
A senior Palestinian official said that Abbas was interested in keeping the influential Arab states—Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Persian Gulf Arab states—from endorsing the plan.
“Sorry @FoxNews & @TreyYingst your sources gave you bad info,” tweeted U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt. “While the plan is close to complete, we aren’t there yet & we’ll continue to refine it until release.”
A U.S. State Department official told JNS, “We intend to release the president’s vision when the administration concludes that we have maximized its potential for acceptance, execution and implementation.”
