Donald Trump is visiting Jerusalem in an outreach effort to establish Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, in the second leg on his first foreign tour as President.
Trump said he has the “rare opportunity to bring security and stability and peace” to the Middle East. That peace effort means standing up for Israel and against terrorism, a marked turn from Obama administration policies.
Peace through strength seemed to be the theme, as Trump explained during his speech on the first leg of his tour, that achieving it “means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires.”
He added, “It means standing together against the murder of innocent Muslims, the oppression of women, the persecution of Jews, and the slaughter of Christians.”
Now, he is declaring the desire not only to combat Islamist extremism, but to actively pursue peace.
Via Al Jazeera:
Trump is scheduled to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, and will also visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in West Jerusalem and give a speech at the Israel Museum.
Negotiations toward the establishment of two separate states – one for the Israelis and one for Palestinians – have in the past proven fruitless. The repeated failure of negotiations has led to increased Israeli settlement activity and even less territory on which a Palestinian state could potentially be established.
Trump has spoken of his self-described deal-making prowess in declaring that the “ultimate deal” is possible, vowing “we will get it done”.
President Trump’s flight path is actually considered a symbolic and historic effort in and of itself.
A spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel told AFP he was not aware of any flight having previously taken the same path before.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly took notice of Trump’s actions.
Never before has the first foreign trip of a president of the United States included a visit to Israel. Thank you, @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/UzvaXoXSAW
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) May 22, 2017
Netanyahu also expressed hope for change with the new President in charge …
Mr. President, you just flew from Riyadh to Tel Aviv. I hope one day an Israeli prime minister will be able to fly from Tel Aviv to Riyadh. pic.twitter.com/y5hMI8FbAu
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) May 22, 2017
Mr. President, may your first trip to our region prove to be a historic milestone on the path towards reconciliation and peace. pic.twitter.com/kLp6Xud0s7
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) May 22, 2017
Trump is also set to visit the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, becoming the first sitting president to do so.
Check out the moment when Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomed President Trump to Israel:
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Do you think President Trump can achieve peace in the Middle East? Share your thoughts below.
President Trump is cleaning up obama’s mess he created the 8 years he ruled in the White House.Not only are the liberals beginning to believe that he will do what he promised but also ISIS will realize soon that President Trump will not rest until they are all dead.
The Western Wall.
God did send him to do what we need, to save our country and settle things down in the Middle East..
In my view President Trump, being very short of Jesus Christ, but is led by Jesus Christ, because it is plain to see, is probably one of the only men in this World that could negotiate Peace in the Middle East. Trump is a very good negotiator!!!!!
I don’t think so considering all the years the Sunni and Shiite Muslims have been fighting and killing one another. A lot of them would probably die from shock if they ever made peace and actually kept it!
Robert and Bill, can I interest you guys in a nice piece of ocean front property in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas? The only disadvantage is if you live at that high an altitude you might get poisoned from the chemtrails the jumbo jets are leaving behind them! LOL!
And the Palestinians have rejected every offer ever made by Israel – including their own State with Yasar Arfat !!!
Face it… Palestinians just love to kill Jews; just like 98.6% of Islam as a whole.
There is no ‘working with Palestinian governments’. None what-so-ever.
You can’t have peace if one of the parties is absolutely determined to wipe the other party off the face of the earth and teaches from earliest childhood to hate and kill civilians, and women and children of the other party; and honor the murderers with financial support for their families and naming streets and monuments for them.
You are both wrong, 9/11 was an inside job put on by the swamp. How better to diminish the rights of the people.
Well more proof that Israel now completely owns the USA, Trump is there lackey, puppet, The whole world knows that Israel DID 911 & here’s trump licking the ars of the man who committed the biggest act of WAR against the USA in History – We were there to record the event – the five dancing Israelis, Building 7 ?.AIPAC is your true enemy…..911TRUTH will drain the Washington swamp.
Oh please! What bothers me is most of the 9/11 Highjackers were Saudi Nationals! not Israelis as you suggest. but no person ever brings it up.
And the first leader of the ‘palestinians’ was an Egyptian.
Hey Bill,
Did you get that brain of yours from the “Aby…normal” jar? I think so!!
U must be one of the stupidest libtard alive.
Hey Bill when you awoke this morning did you forget to pick up your little brain??..and by the way what planet did you fall off of????