Trump Administration
Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs Jason Greenblatt tweets thanks to Democratic and Republican senators for meeting to discuss peace plan • “Deal of the century” expected to be unveiled in four months • Administration expects that “no one will be fully pleased.”
The Trump administration may be withholding recognition of Israel’s capital on passports for the time being because of its much-anticipated Mideast peace plan.
“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.
Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said to reporters at U.N. headquarters: “Storing an atomic archive with an armed guard in the middle of Tehran does not look like you’ve given up your intent to achieve your status as a nuclear-weapons state.”
The harsh rhetoric from the National Security Advisor came just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump address the U.N. General Assembly, where he urged “all nations to isolate Iran’s regime as long as its aggression continues.”
The United States has unceremoniously evicted the head of the recently shuttered PLO mission in Washington, telling him and his family that their visas have been revoked.
In exclusive interviews, JNS asks subject matter experts and Jewish communal leaders about the Trump administrations shuttering of the PLO Mission in Washington.
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.
While Jews around the world were celebrating the Jewish New Year, the U.S. State Department confirmed that it was ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Mission in Washington, D.C.
“Whether they want to talk or not, that’s up to them, not up to me,” Trump told reporters after a meeting with the Kuwait Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. “I will always be available. But it doesn’t matter one way or the other. We’ll see what happens.”
Ramallah official: An article penned by Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt substantiates the U.S. administration’s pro-Israel bias • In the article, Greenblatt accused Palestinian Authority leaders of harming the Palestinian people.
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.”
