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10th March 2017, 08:01 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/donald_trump/index.html) on Friday invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House, an Abbas spokesman said, after the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time since Trump took office.
'President Trump has extended an official invitation to President Abbas to visit the White House soon to discuss ways to resume the political process, stressing his commitment to a peace process that will lead to a real peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis,' said Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah.
Palestinians (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/palestine/index.html)are concerned at the more favorable approach shown by Washington towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Trump came to power.
Netanyahu and Trump have spoken on the phone at least twice since the Jan. 20 inauguration and Netanyahu visited Washington last month.
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President Donald Trump, shown Friday at the White House, has invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the presidential mansion; the two men spoke on the phone Friday
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Abbas will be expected to press the U.S. president about Israeli settlements and the White House's commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinian officials indicated Abbas would emphasise his concern about Israeli settlement-building on occupied land and the need for a two-state solution to the conflict.
'President Abbas stressed the commitment to peace as a strategic choice to establish a Palestinian State alongside the state of Israel,' Abu Rdainah said, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency.
At a Feb. 15 news conference during Netanyahu's visit, Trump was ambivalent about a two-state solution, the mainstay of U.S. policy in the region for the past two decades.
'I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like ... I can live with either one,' Trump said, causing consternation across the Arab world and in many European capitals.
The White House has since been more cautious on the issue, and there has been less talk of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a promise Trump made during the campaign but a move that would provoke anger across the Muslim world.
David Friedman, Trump's nominee for ambassador to Israel, who was approved by the Senate foreign relations committee on Thursday, has said he wants to see the embassy move to Jerusalem and expects to work from the city at least some of the time.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4301096/Trump-Palestinian-President-Abbas-hold-talks.html#ixzz4azE6YhhO
'President Trump has extended an official invitation to President Abbas to visit the White House soon to discuss ways to resume the political process, stressing his commitment to a peace process that will lead to a real peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis,' said Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah.
Palestinians (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/palestine/index.html)are concerned at the more favorable approach shown by Washington towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Trump came to power.
Netanyahu and Trump have spoken on the phone at least twice since the Jan. 20 inauguration and Netanyahu visited Washington last month.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/10/18/3E2432BA00000578-4301096-image-a-28_1489171332557.jpg
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President Donald Trump, shown Friday at the White House, has invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the presidential mansion; the two men spoke on the phone Friday
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/10/14/3E235A0600000578-4301096-image-a-16_1489156345116.jpg
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Abbas will be expected to press the U.S. president about Israeli settlements and the White House's commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinian officials indicated Abbas would emphasise his concern about Israeli settlement-building on occupied land and the need for a two-state solution to the conflict.
'President Abbas stressed the commitment to peace as a strategic choice to establish a Palestinian State alongside the state of Israel,' Abu Rdainah said, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency.
At a Feb. 15 news conference during Netanyahu's visit, Trump was ambivalent about a two-state solution, the mainstay of U.S. policy in the region for the past two decades.
'I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like ... I can live with either one,' Trump said, causing consternation across the Arab world and in many European capitals.
The White House has since been more cautious on the issue, and there has been less talk of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a promise Trump made during the campaign but a move that would provoke anger across the Muslim world.
David Friedman, Trump's nominee for ambassador to Israel, who was approved by the Senate foreign relations committee on Thursday, has said he wants to see the embassy move to Jerusalem and expects to work from the city at least some of the time.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4301096/Trump-Palestinian-President-Abbas-hold-talks.html#ixzz4azE6YhhO