A close associate of Israel’s prime minister says the presidency of Donald Trump could be a chance for the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with more “realistic” expectations.
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said on Monday that Trump offers the Israelis and Palestinians an opportunity to start fresh, after years of tough pressure on Israel from the Obama administration that pushed the Palestinians to more extreme positions.
Hanegbi says he hopes the shift with Trump will bring a more pragmatic Palestinian approach.
He says a weekend Paris summit in which dozens of countries called on Israel and the Palestinians to revive efforts toward long-elusive peace proves “there is no substitute to negotiations” between the two sides.
Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the summit as “rigged” against Israel.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Israel doesn’t want peace. They’ve been persecuting the Palestinians for almost 70 years, and have grown quite fond of it.
Idiot
If you truly believe that, the distance between your anus and your cranium has drastically been reduced and it is impeding your ability to think.
Sorry, didn’t see your data for that statement.
Study your history! They were warned what would happen to them. God took their land from them and gave it to someone else. As was prophecyed and happened in 70 A.D., they were scattered over the world never to return. The Israel of today is smack dab in the middle of PALESTINE. What the heck do you call people from Palestine but Palestinians. It is their land now. What the U.S and English backed jews did is no less than what the white man did to the Indians in this country. Their self rightiousness, will be judged. As surely as the wholesale infanticide in America will be judged. The Christian misinterpretation of God’s promise to Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you” was for their obedience in following God. Which the Hebrews only did occasionaly. God constantly had to punish Israel for their trespasses. Finaly the last straw came when they rejected His Son, and killed Him. God destroyed them as a nation and scattered them to the wind, never to return. (the parable of the wicked husbandman). Read it.
AWM.
The only persons who persecute the Palestinians are the Palestinians themselves. If those Ragheads would stop hurling bombs onto ISRAEL the peace process would begin. Thank God we now have a PRESIDENT and not a wacko barack hussein oblama!
ZioNAZI brute force and blind ignorance conspired to steal Palestine
70 years ago.
ZioNAZI criminal connivance and media domination conspired
to create the myth called Shoah, the fraudulent so-called holocaust.
The monumental lie about the gassings which never happened,
the grossly-overstated 6 million deaths which were being touted
in the FIRST world war, has fundaMENTALly driven the zionists’ totally-bogus
demand for control and corruption ever since their ongoing genocidal land-grab.
AshkeNAZI zionizm has made co-existence in the real world intolerable for all,
including all our good jewish friends who are obligated to stay silent
The Palestinians do not want peace. Watch. They will have every opportunity but will fall short in the end due to non negotiable ideology of Islam. So sad that a religion can cause so much hate for your fellow man, even if the group you hate are the Jews. For the life of me, I cannot understand why Jewish people have been hated throughout history But it continues…
So sad that most readers here that object to Israel’s right to be in Israel and their not giving up anymore land to these murdering mongrels called Palestinians haven’t read the Bible.
This country of Israel was assigned to the Jews by God Himself. The land is actually Gods and someday He is coming back and set up His kingdom there. The Palestinians have never had a land of their own. They have roamed the earth stealing and killing, filled with hate toward the God the Jews serve. This is where so much evil has come from even now in all the world……….. They want all of the Jews dead!! and all of us so-called infidels also.. Read the history of the Nomads………… There has never been a Palestine………….. They are murderers and a people that are filled with hate against all mankind if you aren’t one of them and they will kill their own if they don’t follow their so called religion..