“According to the reports on Channel 2 and in Maariv, the Trump plan being written by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner would create a Palestinian entity that is less than a state, and it would not be based on the pre-1967 lines. Israel would control its borders and the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem would be an issue for negotiations, settlements might not have to be removed, and the Palestinian refugee issue would not be addressed.”
Abbas detests Trump, and according to a senior White House official, “neither Abbas nor his advisers had seen the plan and claimed they were working prematurely to undermine it.” This is why Abbas broke off negotiations. Trump’s plan, if this report is accurate, is proceeding from reality the way no previous plan has done. It does not work from the assumption that Jerusalem is a central Islamic site. The Jewish Press illustrates why in its piece “5 Facts That Prove Jerusalem Was NEVER A Muslim Holy City Or An Arab Capital.” Mecca is the important city of which Muslims turn to pray, in the direction of the Kaaba, which is the holiest Muslim shrine, not the Dome of the Rock.
The sooner the world learns that jihadists are proficient deceivers and propagandists, the better off it will be in controlling their expansionary and destructive ambitions.
“Abbas Cancels Peace Negotiations Due To Saudi Leaked Jerusalem Plan”, by Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2018:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to deliver Sunday’s speech – in which he ruled out a peace process as long as Donald Trump is US president – after parts of Trump’s Middle East peace plan were leaked to him by the Saudis, Channel 2 reported on Tuesday night.
Even before Sunday’s speech, Ben Caspit of The Jerusalem Post’s Hebrew sister paper Maariv reported last week that Abbas was angered by the preliminary reports of Trump’s plan that the Saudis had given him. The report said those leaks were the real reason Abbas did not intend to return to the negotiating table, and not Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
According to the reports on Channel 2 and in Maariv, the Trump plan being written by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner would create a Palestinian entity that is less than a state, and it would not be based on the pre-1967 lines. Israel would control its borders and the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem would be an issue for negotiations, settlements might not have to be removed, and the Palestinian refugee issue would not be addressed.
“We understood that Trump’s declaration did not really matter and had no impact on what is happening on the ground,” Caspit quoted senior officials close to Abbas telling Knesset members who met with him last week. “We just used the declaration as a preemptive strike to torpedo the negotiations before the Americans finished drafting their peace plan, so we wouldn’t have to reject it publicly later on.”
The Palestinians were quoted saying that the international community accepted the Jerusalem excuse for ruling out negotiations because there is a consensus in the world on the city being the capital of two states.
In Sunday’s speech to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council, Abbas called Trump’s plan “the slap in the face of the century.”
Channel 2 diplomatic correspondent Dana Weiss reported that a close Abbas associate heard details of the plan in Saudi Arabia 10 days before Abbas’s Sunday speech in which he cursed at Trump and expressed hope that his “house would be destroyed.”
Ahmad Majdalani, a confidant of Abbas, denied Channel 2’s report that Abbas had dispatched an envoy to Saudi Arabia to listen to the details of Trump’s peace plan.
“No one was sent to Saudi Arabia earlier this month to hear about the details of Trump’s peace plan,” Majdalani told the Post. “The report is not accurate.”
A senior White House official told the Post that neither Abbas nor his advisers had seen the plan and claimed they were working prematurely to undermine it.
“It is unfortunate that the Palestinian leadership is seeking to prejudice people against our unfinished plan, which they have not seen,” the senior official said. “We do not know what they claim to have seen. We will present proposals directly to the Israelis and the Palestinians at the appropriate time and under the right conditions. In the meantime, we will remain hard at work on a draft plan that benefits both sides while some prejudge and undermine efforts to achieving lasting peace.”
The Abbas speech has been criticized by politicians from across the Israeli political spectrum, including by current Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay, who called it “full of lies and antisemitism,” and former Labor leader and prime minister Ehud Barak, who said “Abbas’s speech was shameful and ridiculous.”
“The main responsibility for the continuation of the conflict is on Abbas’s shoulders,” Barak wrote on Twitter. “Our responsibility is to take action not for the Palestinian’s caprices but for our own interest of guaranteeing Israel’s security and its future as a Jewish and democratic state.”
Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai eulogized Abbas’s career but expressed optimism that the peace process could be restarted with his successor.
“As someone who believes in a two-state solution, I haven’t lost hope,” Shai said. “Someone will replace Abbas sooner or later. We have to look forward and see who will be the new leader, and he will be our partner.”
But Meretz MK Mossi Raz defended Abbas, saying that the PA leader still supports the two-state solution, continues security cooperation with Israel, and has even given up the drive to reclaim his boyhood home in Safed.
“I wish our side was ready for pre-1967 borders, evacuating settlements, and recognizing the suffering of the ‘other,’” Raz said. “Israeli politicians say the Oslo peace process is dead, so it should not be a big deal when Abbas says it, too.”
Former Peace Now secretary- general Yariv Oppenheimer said that if a peace process is not restarted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump are to blame, not Abbas.
“Our government doesn’t support a Palestinian state, so Abbas is still more moderate than our government,” Oppenheimer said. “Some of the things he said like his incorrect history of Zionism were hard for a pro-peace person to hear, and I wish they weren’t said, but some of what he said was understandable.
RichardL says
Seven years without a “peace process”. Thank you Mr. President! That means the US saves a lot of bribes for child murderers that usually are paid to the Muslims occupying the Holy Land so that they take part in a “peace process” that they want to see ending in genocide.
Winning!
MAGA!
p bay says
Abbas is pissed off Trup called him a liar, but Trump is NO politician… Abbas runs a shithole non-country
StellaSaidSo says
Of course he did.
The only ‘peace’ Abbas wants is the silence that would follow the driving of every Jew in Israel into the sea, in accordance with Koranic injunction.
gravenimage says
Yup.
ElderlyZionist says
“Someone will replace Abbas sooner or later. ”
Indeed. Dear Abu Mazen is 82 years old. He’s not long for this world. He might at any moment suffer a massive stroke, or fall down a flight of stairs, or accidentally tell the truth and spontaneously burst into flames. I brought marshmallows. Let’s see what develops.
eduardo odraude says
Some other lunatic will take his place.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. No one in the “Palestinian Authority” is apt to be any better.
eduardo odraude says
And why, after being elected, has Abbas discontinued elections? Why is a dictatorship allowed the least bit of deference? If he and his people want respect, let them vote in a liberal democracy with real freedom of religion, respect for rule of law, distinction between civilians and soldiers, and adherence to fundamental human rights (not according to the totalitarian Cairo Declaration, but according to the UN Declaration). Otherwise, flip ’em the bird, withdraw all funds, and let them waste away in their own self-destructive totalitarian hate if they insist on it.
LeftisruiningCanada says
😀
Westman says
Why does that picture of Abbas seem like a spider about to pounce? Or, is it a scorpion?
Palestinian leaders had a good ride on the gravy train while their egos were slathered in adulation. It’s over. It’s time for Abbas to save something for his people before it’s gone, or, join terrorist Arafat.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yeah, i’m thinking Shelob.
pragmatist says
I don’t know why they even bother to put forward excuses for not negotiating. Past behavior leaves us in no doubt that the Palestinians, even if they enter into discussions, have no intention whatever of allowing those discussions to end in any sort of agreement. A two state solution could have been achieved long ago but that is the last thing the Arabs want. Nothing will satisfy them short of the complete destruction of Israel. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.
gravenimage says
Very true.
Abbisid says
Well thats the next $65 Million held back and any future payments. Please President Trump.
IQ al Rassooli says
As an Arab and a Muslim, contorting and or denying Facts & Reality is the NORM
Those who are Beneath CONTEMPT are so called Jews/Israelis/Peaceniks whose logic is so perverted that they truly believe that Muslims can ever make PEACE with non Muslims
Muslims DECEIVE other Muslims as part of their belief system; how then can they ever be faithful to any agreement made with Infidels/ Kuffar?
Yariv Oppenheimer and Meretz MK Mossi Raz should be examined to find out if they even have two brain cells of logic
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
shosh7154 says
You are correct Rassooli….the quran guarantees that lies rule….makir allahi
CRUSADER says
Allah the Best Deceiver
Is that the most accurate translation of passages in the Quoran
that reference Makir Allahi ???
Walter Sieruk says
Abbas saying that the US will longer have any part in the peace talks because of the US embassy move to Jerusalem is really a good thing. This is because those so called “peace talks” are a hoax as well as a bad “joke.” For those “peace talks” involve dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel ,.Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. So those “peace talks” are a hoax. For the “Palestinian”leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocked attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel . For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
eduardo odraude says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EDW88CBo-8
LeftisruiningCanada says
Great video.
“Why can’t the one Jewish State..be allowed to exists?”
Because islam says so.
Simple as that.
gravenimage says
Abbas canceled negotiations after seeing Trump’s Middle East peace plan
………………….
Good. Not having to go through this kabuki theater again with the “Palestinian authority” is a relief.
The PA has the destruction of Israel *in its charter*. Pretending they are a “partner for peace” is suicidal fantasy.
CRUSADER says
Kabuki theater.
Indeed!
Good term for it.
b.a. freeman says
former Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheimer must not know islamic scripture; he is either a boob or a traitor, and in neither case should he be entrusted with anybody’s security other than his own.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Savage mad devil Trump is really a rascal. How can you negotiate an issue already resolved ? It is UN Resolution No.181that created fascist evil zionist state of Israel and palestinian state. Yet this imbecile expects palestians to agree relinquish palestian state to remain under perpetual control of wicked racists. Impossible !!
StellaSaidSo says
Savage stupid fool Ibrahim Ignoramus Muhammed peddles his deluded nonsense again…
NellyMath says
Calling Trump Mad devil and rascal is just one of tactics of LOSERS. it is no use to call you anything. Dear Stella, you are wasting precious time to even think about what to call this guy. He thinks from the core of deceit, which is where every staunch Muslim thinks from. it is a core that existed after being brain washed, and condemn to think in a certain way . After that TABLE RASE he was PLUGGED in the doctrine of Islam where his conscience means nothing anymore, his freedom is inexistent, his being is nothing unless is plugged in Islam. last time you said I a ignorant in History, though I know that I am not. TODAY I AM ASKING YOU FOR A HISTORICAL TIMELINE PROOF of MUSLIM CLAIM ON JERUSALEM. and I will prove you WRONG.
CRUSADER says
Yep!
LOSER, for sure.
What is Latin for LOSER?
(Ballio…..or
Perditor = loser, in the sense of going to rack and ruin. )
Let’s use Latin more….
DEUS VULT
LeftisruiningCanada says
Oh yes, because your brothers in Gaza and the PA are so well known to obeying all the UN resolutions aren’t they?
And Ibrahim, when will you be using your Jewish family ties to explain to us the Talmud?
Have you lost interest in talking about Helen Ellerbe and her earth worshiping critique of Christianity?
Mr nafplion says
I believe it is time for everyone to stop referring to “Palestinians “. We should just call them Jordanians. That is what they are. Keep repeating. That’s how they became “Palestinians “. Jordanians have no right to Israel. There you go. Problem solved. Oh and cut off every penny from everywhere for the new Jordanians.
CRUSADER says
YES!
Jordanians.
Problem solved.
(Well, not for the King in Jordan, but….)
Yitz says
Peace now is a hard left liberal group whose. Ideology is the same as the left all over the world. The same poison. Poor ibrahim is still using his favorite word evil for the wrong people. He should look in a mirror.
Merkexit says
The winner of wars determine the terms of surrender.
Time to finish the war, as the Russians Chinese and American armies have learned.
It is moral to kill murderers before they murder again.