Trump shows his doubt on Peace in Jerusalem and West Bank between Palestine and Israel
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Above Photos: Palestinians in West Bank and in Jerusalem rallied to anti
Trump's declaration of Jerusalem is Israel's Capital.
VietPress USA (Feb. 11, 2018): On Wednesday, Dec. 6th, 2017, President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S.
policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, destroying Middle
East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.
The status of Jerusalem - home to sites holy to the Muslim,
Jewish and Christian religions - is one of the biggest obstacles to reaching a
peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Trump’s
announcement as a “historic landmark,” but other close Western allies of
Washington such as Britain and France were critical. 128 Countries at UN assembly voted against Trump's declaration on Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Palestinians made huge rallies in West Bank and in Jerusalem to confront Trump and burned American flag. Some Palestinians shot, killed and injured by Israeli Security forces.
Today, at an Interview by the Israel Hayom daily that is owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Trump backer and a supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump show doubt on the situation in Jerusalem between Palestine and Israel. Trump said "Right now, I would say the Palestinians are not looking to make peace, they are not looking to make peace. And I am not necessarily sure that Israel is looking to make peace. So we are just going to have to see what happens.."
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Trump questions Israel's interest in making peace
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| President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Shane Bouvet, a campaign volunteer, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) |
JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump questioned Israel's interest in making peace with the Palestinians in an interview published Sunday, spotlighting its West Bank settlements as a complicating factor.
In the interview in the Israel Hayom daily, Trump also cast doubt on the Palestinians' desire to strike a deal. But his comments about Israel mark rare criticism from a president who has publicly sparred with the Palestinians while forging warm ties with Israel ahead of the expected presentation of a U.S. peace outline.
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"Right now, I would say the Palestinians are not looking to make peace, they are not looking to make peace. And I am not necessarily sure that Israel is looking to make peace. So we are just going to have to see what happens," Trump was quoted as saying. He did not disclose details about the anticipated peace plan.
Israel Hayom is owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Trump backer and a supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the interview, Trump criticized Israel's West Bank settlements, which the Palestinians and most of the international community view as illegal obstacles to peace. The Trump White House has been less publicly critical of Israel's settlement building than previous administrations.
"The settlements are something that very much complicates and always have complicated making peace, so I think Israel has to be very careful with the settlements," he said.
Relations between the U.S. and the Palestinians have spiraled since Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December. Since then he has cut U.S. funding to a U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees and threatened to withhold aid money to the Palestinians unless they resume negotiations with Israel.
The Palestinians, who claim Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem as their capital, saw Trump's announcement as unfairly taking sides with Israel. They say the U.S. is not an honest broker and have pre-emptively rejected any peace proposal presented by the Trump administration.
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