Washington _ Agencies
US president Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel would pay a "high price" during its negotiations with the Palestinians in exchange for its decision to recognize occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to transfer the US embassy.
"The Palestinians will get something good, because now it is their turn to get a good order, without disclosing any details," said the US president, who was speaking at a political festival in Charleston, capital of West Virginia state.
"We have taken Jerusalem off the negotiating table and it is no longer a negotiated issue," Trump said at the end of his 85-minute speech. I understand now how complex Jerusalem is and why the former presidents have not moved the US Embassy (from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem) despite their promises, I have received phone calls from most of the world´s presidents saying don´t do it. Don´t move the embassy to Jerusalem, but I did it. It should have happened a long time ago, and I did it.
"Achieving peace between the Palestinians and Israel is the most complex issue, and I understand why it has been obstructed every time because Jerusalem has always been the stumbling block in the negotiations and I have taken it off the table," he said.
Now, "It is high time for Israel to pay for it, that the Palestinians get a good thing and they will get a good thing because it´s their turn now."
US President Trump was speaking at the end of a bad day where the jury, Paul Manafert, the former director of the Trump election campaign, condemned the first trial triggered by the investigation into Russia´s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election. While the judge decided to annul a partial trial on 10 counts on which the jury had not reached a verdict, the Commission condemned the remaining eight counts of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one charge of not authorizing the possession of accounts in foreign banks.
The conviction on charges of bank fraud is, in theory, that the 69-year-old Manafert has spent the rest of his life in prison, but legal experts believe that in fact the penalty will not exceed 10 years.
US President Donald Trump deplored the conviction of manafert on fraud charges, calling him a "good man." "I am very sad about this," he said, adding that the conviction was part of the "persecution campaign" following the 2016 elections.
The same day, the former personal lawyer of President Trump, Michael Cohen, acknowledged eight charges against him, including fraud and breach of the laws on the financing of electoral campaigns during the 2016 presidential elections, which could lead to the involvement of President Trump.
During a hearing before the Manhattan court judge, William P. Cohen pleaded guilty on five counts of tax fraud, one bank fraud and two counts of breaking campaign finance laws.
US President George W. Bush´s remarks that "Israel should pay a high price," and now "the role of the Palestinians to get a good thing," came at a time when the "Deal of the century" was too close, and the US president´s team for "The peace process", composed of his brother-in-law, Jared Kouchner, His Special envoy for international negotiations, Jason Grinblat, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Hailey, are working to create the conditions for the launch of the group´s peace plan since the spring of 2017 next month, perhaps in conjunction with President Donald Trump´s speech to the 73rd session of the General Assembly. of the United Nations.
US President Trump is expected to deliver his annual address to the General Assembly Tuesday, 25 September 2018.
Some believe that a new US peace plan should focus on providing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians and alleviating their suffering today under siege in Gaza and easing the impact of the occupation on the West Bank citizens.
Many experts believe that President Trump has lost much of his enthusiasm over his ability to achieve a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel, based on the mobilization and support of the two parties and the Arab countries in the past few months.
"Israel will have a prime minister named Mohammed in a few years ´ time," he said, in a case involving US President Trump, in the event of a settlement of the Palestinian issue with the establishment of a unified, bi-national state.
The channel claims that Trump´s statement came during his meeting with Jordan´s King Abdullah II in Washington on the 25th June, and that King Abdullah conveyed this to French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Ludrán while hosting him in Amman on 2 August.
"The king told the French minister that he told Trump that many young Palestinians were no longer keen to dissolve the two countries, but rather to live in one state with the Israelis with equal rights," the channel quoted French diplomats who attended the meeting between King Abdullah and Ludrian. adding that "The result will be that Israel will lose its Jewish character" and that Trump answered the king´s mocking "what you say makes sense... In the case of a single-state scenario, the Prime Minister of Israel will be named Muhammad within a few years. "
The king said he had stressed to the US President that if his peace plan is to be accepted, it should first be put to the European and Arab countries concerned so that they can make observations, and the king has expressed regret that Trump has not done so yet.
The US president is expected to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah, Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and leaders from the Arab Cooperation Council on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
