Future of Peace or Continued Lies About Jerusalem?

A new peace plan for Israel and the Arabs is about to be placed on the table. The plan, that is to be proposed by the United States, will be considered by Israel and will surely be hotly debated. However, the Arab leadership has already announced that it won’t even consider the plan. They insist that the U.S. is tainted by their recognition of reality and truth — that Jerusalem is Israel eternal capital. So, the Arabs appear to be heading the same course as usual… never missing an opportunity to miss and opportunity. They continue to insist that the Jewish Nation has no historical, religious or cultural connection to Jerusalem. It appears that they would rather hold on to their continued lies about Jerusalem and their denial of the facts about Jerusalem’s past, present and future.

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Haley: Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian ‘deal of the century’ can happen if Abbas comes to the table

Article Courtesy: Fox News

United States U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters that President Trump’s “deal of the century” in solving the Israeli-Palestinian situation can happen but only if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agrees to it. Haley was speaking to reporters at a press conference marking the United States presidency of this month’s U.N. Security Council.

Haley in response to a question if the deal of the century was attainable said, “Only if Abbas comes to the table. We have ensured that (Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin) Netanyahu will come to the table. Abbas, for the good of his people, needs to come to the table.” The Palestinian leadership cut off all contacts with the Trump administration when the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December.

While many critics of the Trump administration have claimed there is no peace plan, Haley said she had read it, but told reporters that it would not be rolled out during this month’s United Nations General Assembly debate when Trump and other world leaders will address the global body.

“I can tell you that (White House senior adviser) Jared Kushner and (Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations) Jason Greenblatt have done unbelievably detailed work in it. I have read the plan. It is thoroughly done. It is well-thought-out from both sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis.”

She continued, “The president’s full intent is to completely do everything he can with the peace plan.”

Haley, who has made defending close U.S. ally Israel a top priority at the U.N., told reporters that Abbas must do more to help the Palestinian people.

“I will tell you again, for the good of the Palestinian people, the region, the international community, we have to put pressure on Abbas, and say, it’s time. It’s time for a better life for Palestinians. And only he can deliver that. And we have to acknowledge that Hamas is part of the problem.”

As for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the agency that the Trump administration cut all funding to last Friday, Haley criticized it for being a political organization.

She said the U.S. up until last year had given had given $6 billion to the Palestinians.

“UNRWA is a political arm that claims to serve Palestinians. We have, for two years, asked UNRWA to reform itself because it has this ongoing number of refugees that is unsustainable. We can’t sustain — and the world knows. Everybody knows it. Every year, they come and say the schools aren’t going to open. But they keep adding numbers of refugees to where we’re never going to be able to sustain that.”

Haley noted that the U.S. was not cutting aid to the Palestinians — just UNRWA. She called upon other countries in the region to put their money where their mouth is.

“Don’t blame us for cutting aid. Don’t blame us for saying that we think UNRWA is political, and that it needs to be reformed. If you think it’s fine, go: you pay for it. But don’t blame the United States for a faulty political organization that I don’t think is doing justice to the people of the Palestinian community.”

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