Tag Archive for Donald Trump

| May 22, 2017
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Abbas willing to offer significant land swap with Israel in tomorrow’s Trump talks

 

A plan first proposed by Olmert in 2008 where Arabs renounce 6.5% of lands with Jewish presence, but under their political control, is now acceptable for land swaps according to a Palestinian source. 

By Mordechai Sones

 

PA President Mahmoud Abbas will present a plan by which the Arabs renounce 6.5 percent of the lands under their political control to Israel, three times as much as previously offered, during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel tomorrow (Tuesday), Middle East Eyereported.

The MEE quoted a PA official close to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as saying that the proposal excludes Jerusalem and appears to cement the vision of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. Continue Reading »

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| May 17, 2017
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Israel was source of intel Trump transferred to Russian FM to fight ISIS

 

First orchestrated by outgoing Obama gov’t, now the US media run by Trump detractors are trying to make federal case on transfer of intel to Russia, saying US president could be ‘security risk for entire western world,’ when the exact opposite is closer to the truth.

By i24NEWS

 

Israel was apparently the source of the highly classified information that Donald Trump was accused of disclosing in a meeting with Russian officials on Monday, revealed a current and former White House official familiar with the situation to the New York Times on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in February.

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| May 16, 2017
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Trump Administration disassociates itself from diplomat’s Western Wall comments

 

White House issues prompt and decisive response: Remarks made earlier today by American diplomats in Israel that suggested the Western Wall is not part of Israel, “do not reflect the U.S. position, and certainly not the President’s position.”

By Nitsan Keidar

 

The White House on Monday disassociated itself from remarks by American diplomats, who told representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office that the Western Wall is not part of Israel but rather part of the “West Bank”.

“These comments, if true, were not authorized by the White House. They do not reflect the U.S. position, and certainly not the President’s position,” a White House spokesman told Haaretz. Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2017
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Israel assigns 10,000 Police officers to secure President Trump’s visit to the Jewish State

 

After his arrival ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, U.S. President Trump will be flown by helicopter to Jerusalem to visit the Old City and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum before checking into the King David Hotel’s presidential suite.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER

 

More than 10,000 police officers will take part in securing the two-day visit of US President Donald Trump, expected to take place on May 22-23.

Trump will arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, whence he will fly by helicopter to Jerusalem to visit the Old City and Yad Vashem, and sleep in the King David Hotel’s presidential suite. Continue Reading »

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| May 8, 2017
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Sharp White House eyes save Trump from Palestinian ambush in “Pallywood production”

 

BUSTED: Officials working for the Palestinian Authority despot Mahmoud Abbas, connived in a covert photo-op ‘ambush’ of President Trump with the grave of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat centered clearly in a propaganda inspired photograph.

By David Rosenberg

 

President Donald Trump is slated to visit Israel from May 22nd to 23rd, during celebrations for 50 years of Jerusalem’s reunification, his first state visit to Israel as president, during which time he is tentatively scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.

While state visits to the Palestinian Authority leadership in Ramallah have become an established feature of visits to Israel by senior Western leaders, PA officials apparently had something bigger and less innocuous planned than the typical meet-and-greet. Continue Reading »

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| May 5, 2017
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Trump’s Israel visit coincides with 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification

 

US President Donald Trump’s first visit to Israel, which includes family and a thousand person entourage, could include a speech at the ancient desert fortress Masada, something that’s in line with Trump’s grandiose style.

By i24NEWS

 

US President Donald Trump is considering delivering a speech from the ancient desert fortress of Masada during an upcoming visit to Israel, i24NEWS has learned.

A source told i24NEWS that some Israeli officials have expressed reservations over the choice of Masada for an address by a US President, but added that the site — an ancient fortress situated atop a 400 meter (1,300 foot) high rock cliff — seems in line with Trump’s grandiose style. Continue Reading »

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| March 31, 2017
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Trump to renew Military Aid to Egypt after Obama halted it with fall of Islamic Brotherhood

 

Although Egypt has long been one of Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East, Obama halted US military aid with Egypt after the coup d’état that unseated Muslim Brotherhood strongman Mohamed Morsi.

By Reuters

 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will seek to rebuild the US relationship with Egypt at a Monday meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi focused on security issues and military aid, a senior White House official said on Friday.

“He wants to use President Sisi’s visit to reboot the bilateral relationship and build on the strong connection the two presidents established when they first met in New York last September,” the official told reporters. Continue Reading »

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| March 31, 2017
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Palestinian autocrat Abbas: Trump “serious” about solving Israel-Palestinian conflict

 

Mahmoud Abbas said the Arab League summit on Wednesday confirmed that the Arab world had a “clear” vision for peace on the basis of two-states.

By i24NEWS

 

President Donald Trump is “serious” about solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said ahead of a meeting with the US leader.

Netanyahu at White House with Trump – White House/YouTube

“The US administration of President Donald Trump is seriously considering a solution to the Palestinian issue,” Abbas told AFP late Wednesday after a meeting of the Arab League in Jordan.

Abbas met with Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt before leaving for the summit and said contacts with the administration were ongoing. Continue Reading »

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| February 10, 2017
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Trump, ‘Israel’s been through enough, I won’t condemn it.’

 

In an interview with the first Israeli media outlet, Israel Hayom, the U.S. President, Donald Trump, says he understands and respects Israel greatly, stressing he would like to see peace in the Middle East, and looks forward to his meeting with PM Netanyahu next week.

By Boaz Bismuth

 

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel Hayom’s foreign news editor and senior analyst Boaz Bismuth:

“I understand Israel very well and I respect Israel. … I would like to see peace [between Israel and the Palestinians] and beyond,” U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel Hayom in an exclusive interview Thursday — the first interview the 45th president of the United States has given Israeli media since taking office on Jan. Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2017
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WATCH: President Trump speaks to success of security walls, “Just ask Israel”

 

Speaking to American Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, President Trump says security fence on Israel’s southern border is real-time evidence that ‘walls work’.

By Gary Willig

 

US President Donald Trump addressed a group of American sheriffs and Police Chiefs about issues relating to national security Wednesday.

President Trump said that it was within the powers of the president to restrict the immigration of anyone he or she deems to be a threat to American interests, and that the judges who questioned the legality of his executive order temporarily banning travel to the US from seven Muslim nations were wrong.

President Trump Speaks of Israel’s security wall success.-

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| January 26, 2017
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Trump signs Exec Order: UN orgs that recognize Palestinian state lose US funding

 

NYT reports Trump’s executive order would halt all US funding to any UN body or agency that recognize the Palestinian Authority or PLO as a full member state.

BY MICHAEL WILNER, TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would halt all US funding to UN agencies that recognize the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization as a full member.

The move, first reported in the New York Times, would create a committee tasked with reviewing US aid to the international bodies and programs. The order specifically calls for a review of aid to UN peacekeeping efforts. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2017
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Trump tells UK PM Kay, ‘Protect Israel Until I Get in Office’

 

Ahead of Paris conference, US President-elect Trump calls on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to use her UN Security Council veto power to protect Israel, since he can’t trust Obama.

By Israel Today Staff

 

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday urged Britain to veto any new anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council this week.

UK PM May – Israel PM Netanyahu – US P”E Trump

There is some concern that after yesterday’s “peace” summit in Paris, the Palestinians and their allies will introduce another motion, possibly recognizing an independent Palestinian state.

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After this Friday, January 20, Trump will be in the White House, and intends to slap down any UN efforts detrimental to the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| January 12, 2017
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Jewish groups upset over Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ comparison to the Nazis

 

The leader of Britain’s Jewish community denounced Trump’s choice of words. “The Board of Deputies of British Jews constantly condemns the misuse of Nazi and Holocaust language, and the president-elect’s references to Nazi Germany are completely inappropriate.”

By Tamara Zieve

 

The Anti-Defamation League said a remark made Wednesday by US President-elect Donald Trump comparing media reports about him to Nazi-era propaganda calls for an apology.

“No one should cavalierly draw analogies to Nazi Germany, especially the next leader of the free world,” ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said. “It is not only a ridiculous comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| December 23, 2016
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Trump Transition Team Advisor: Don’t Believe Media, West Bank Belongs to Israel

 

One of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team’s top official urges international community to stop listening to the lies of mainstream media, and know that Judea and Samaria “is an inseparable part of the State of Israel.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

A senior officials in US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team visited this week and stated that the so-called “West Bank” clearly belongs to Israel.

Becky Norton Dunlop  was touring the areas known biblically as Judea and Samaria when she told reporters: “Anyone who comes and visits Judea and Samaria sees that it is an inseparable part of the State of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| December 22, 2016
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Unlike their ‘leaders’ Palestinians apathetic should US Embassy move to Jerusalem

 

As Palestinian leaders have been threatening the US with global “chaos, lawlessness & extremism” should the President-elect relocate the US Embassy to the Jewish Capital, a cross-section of Palestinians expressed overwhelming apathy, while left-wing Jerusalem bureaucrats are unimpressed with Trump, or his policy.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

 

While much of the world expresses outrage that the US Embassy may relocate to Jerusalem under President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, a cross-section of Palestinians outside the Old City’s Damascus Gate on Wednesday expressed overwhelming apathy.

Embassy of the United States in Tel Aviv, Israel - Wikimedia Commons

Embassy of the United States in Tel Aviv, Israel – Wikimedia Commons

Indeed, more than two dozen Arab passersby of all ages entering or exiting the once volatile east Jerusalem entrance either said they were unaware of the proposal or simply did not care. Continue Reading »

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