Greenblatt criticizes Abbas’ matter on Jerusalem’s holy status

For a initial time given US President Donald Trump famous Jerusalem as Israel’s collateral on Dec 6, Jason Greenblatt, his arch attach� to a Middle East assent process, called out Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by name on Wednesday night.

In a array of tweets, Greenblatt entered into a push with Abbas that he had formerly sought to avoid, critizing a Palestinian personality for refusing to commend a Jews’ ancestral roots in a ancient city.

“Pres. Abbas states about Jerusalem: ‘It is Arab, Muslim and Christian,’” Greenblatt wrote, “and creates no discuss of any Jewish ties. Nothing pacific or prolific can come from statements like this.”

Greenblatt was quoting a matter Abbas done on Tuesday in a debate in Ramallah.

“Lasting assent will not be achieved by denying Judaism’s thousands of years of ties to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews,” Greenblatt continued in 3 prepared, threaded tweets. “Peace can ONLY be formed on truth, and what [President Trump] pronounced is a truth: ‘Jerusalem is today, and contingency remain, a place where Jews urge during a Western Wall, where Christians travel a Stations of a Cross, and where Muslims ceremony during al-Aksa Mosque.’”

In selecting to chateau Abbas publicly, Greenblatt was arising his initial response to Abbas’s ongoing controversial dispute with a entirety of a Trump administration. The PA personality and his aides have privately criticized each comparison administration central tied to a Mideast portfolio, including Greenblatt and a boss himself.

Throughout Abbas’s barrage, Greenblatt and a rest of a White House assent group have kept their heads down and refused to respond to personal slights. The group insists that a assent devise – a robust, minute request charity specific remedies to a thorniest issues of a Israeli-Palestinian dispute – will pronounce for itself and give Palestinian care inducement to lapse to a table.

Abbas’s latest critique came late on Wednesday night, intended during a administration’s envoy to Israel, David Friedman.

“The ambassador’s recommendations and advice, that do not aim to grasp a only assent on a basement of general legitimacy, is what led to this predicament in American-Palestinian relations,” Nabil Abu Rudaineh, Abbas’s spokesman, pronounced in a matter published on Wafa, a central PA news site.

“The American ambassador’s statements make us consternation about his attribute with a occupation,” Abu Rudaineh added. “Is he representing America or Israel?”

“Instead of contributing to formulating a meridian for peace, Ambassador Friedman is augmenting tensions and providing pretexts for aroused acts like these that we reject,” Abu Rudaineh said, but clarifying to that aroused acts he was alluding. “We attest that a [PA] boss and Palestinian leadership’s process is popular, pacific resistance.”

Abbas has also voiced exasperation with Friedman. In a debate in January, Abbas indicted Friedman – who has a story of ancillary settlements – of vital in a settlement. Friedman resides in a US ambassador’s chateau in Herzliya.

White House officials declined to criticism on a timing or meditative behind Greenblatt’s tweets. But comparison officials recently told The Jerusalem Post: “When people contend things about us that aren’t true, we will respond.”