“Never mentioned during that conversation”, Trump said at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem when asked by journalists about the reports.
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The visit is part of a carefully constructed theme of Trump’s first foreign trip as president. He donned a black kippah, the skull cap worn by religious Jews and by others as a mark of respect, and stood for a few minutes with his right hand on the limestone blocks that are the remnants of an ancient temple.
Tight security Security was extremely tight for the Israeli leg of the visit, with police deploying some 10,000 officers.
“That includes advancing prosperity, defeating the evils of terrorism and facing the threat of an Iranian regime that is threatening the region and causing so much violence and suffering”, he said.
Forty seconds into this video of the exchange, you can nearly see Bibi Netanyahu wonder if the black guy who didn’t want a war with Iran might have been preferable to the meshuga schmuck standing beside him.
“It won’t be simple, but for the first time in many years and for the first time in my lifetime, I see a real hope for change”.
Allowing them to do so could have led to accusations that Washington was implicitly recognizing Israel’s unilateral claim of sovereignty over the site, which would break with years of US and worldwide precedent.
She also doesn’t believe Trump lacks the ability to secure a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis and lacks understanding of the conflict’s history and complexity.
Donald Trump announces his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination at Trump Tower in New York, June 16, 2015. But I guess Trump hadn’t really considered that a serious obstacle until he heard it face-to-face from the king. VIDEO: President Donald #Trump became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall in #Israel.
Netanyahu added that U.S.
Trump visited the wall as part of his first trip overseas as president, which includes stops at important sites for Christians, Muslims and Jews. Before Air Force One touching down at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, news surfaced that Trump had shared Israeli intelligence with the Russians, and had also struck an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that this is none of Israel’s concern. “Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days was negative even by the standards of today’s hyper-critical press…the sheer level of negative coverage gives weight to Trump’s contention, one shared by his core constituency, that the media are hell bent on destroying his presidency…” This is the restaurant owner, Manuel Ozel.
We can only get there working together, there is no other way.
The visit also comes as the U.S. So we’re stuck in the middle.
Mr Trump said: “We must take advantage of the situation”.
HEYAM SALAMEH: When there is a will, there is a way. They’re all saying I did, so you have another story wrong. Obama came. Nothing was done. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently said about Jews in Jerusalem: “Al-Aqsa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher”.
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But other administration officials are circumspect in discussing the prospects of quickly achieving a peace agreement that has eluded USA and United Nations leaders for half a century.
