What Friedman says about Trump, if true, is dismaying
Former USA ambassador David Friedman has more to say about Donald Trump that's not very flattering, and is definitely eyebrow raising:
During a 2017 meeting with then-president Reuven Rivlin, Donald Trump criticized then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his unwillingness to seek peace while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “desperate” for a deal, former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in his new book, according to a copy obtained by The Guardian.It does say, however:
In “Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East,” a memoir set to be published next week, the former American envoy said the comments stunned him and “knocked everyone off their chairs.”
“Although the meeting was private and off the record, we all envisioned a headline tomorrow that Trump had praised Abbas and criticized Netanyahu – the worst possible dynamic for the president’s popularity or for the prospects of the peace process,” Friedman wrote. “Fortunately, and incredibly, the event wasn’t leaked.”
The book also describes how during Trump’s next meeting with Netanyahu, Friedman showed a “two-minute collection of Abbas’s speeches that I thought was worth watching.”And yet, as was reported several weeks ago, Trump made awfully divisive statements making it sound as though he thought Abbas was preferable despite everything. So who knows what can or should be thought about Trump? It's a terrible shame Trump's sending such questionable and contradictive positions, and his aides didn't improve the situation if they retained lenient positions on Abbas. This is just plain depressing to ponder.
According to the Guardian, the tape contained “two minutes of Abbas honoring terrorists, extolling violence, and vowing never to accept anything less than Israel’s total defeat.”
Friedman wrote that after the tape concluded, “the [US] president said, ‘Wow, is that the same guy I met in Washington last month? He seemed like such a sweet, peaceful guy.’ The tape had clearly made an impact.”
According to the Guardian, several top Trump advisers and officials disapproved of Friedman’s presentation of the clips.
“They thought it was a cheap propaganda trick,” he wrote, adding that he defended the move, telling them that, “I work for the president, and nobody else… I am going to make sure that he is well informed so that he gets Israel policy right.”
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