Saudi crown prince criticises Palestinian leadership, says must accept what US offers or stop complaining, report says.
30 Apr 2018
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, often known as MBS, has told heads of US-based Jewish groups that the Palestinian leadership must accept conditions for peace put forward by the administration of US President Donald Trump, according to a report on Israeli media.
During a closed-door meeting last month in New York with the organisations’ leaders, bin Salman harshly criticised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Channel 10 news reported on Sunday, citing an Israeli diplomatic wire and sources.
“In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,” bin Salman reportedly said in a report published on Axios website by Barak Ravid, Channel 10’s senior diplomatic correspondent.
“It is about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiations table or shut up and stop complaining.”
Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, a move that drew international criticism.
Palestinian leaders see East Jerusalem, which was militarily seized by Israel in 1967 and has been occupied since, as the capital of their future state.
Bin Salman reportedly pressured Abbas to accept the US framework for peace after Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.
However, the Palestinian leadership has boycotted the White House since Trump’s announcement in December. Abbas said the US was no longer an “honest broker” in peace talks.
Mohammed bin Salman and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly enjoy close relations. Kushner reached out to bin Salman for guidance on the region after Trump appointed him to the administration’s team that would oversee negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis.
While bin Salman criticised Palestinian leadership, he further stated that peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine would need to move forward before Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states would normalise relations with Israel.
Says a stupid d*ck head from Kenya who is NOT allowed to immigrate to the “Gods People’s land” due to his skin color .
tulisema mambo ya Israel na Arabs tuwaachie, we should learn to mind our business Kama wafrika weusi…
sicheki na mtu my deer . my stand on israelis and arabs is very clear . and Uncle Trump pia ni mutu yangu sana si homosexual kama Obama who had started dining with Gods people’s enemies kwanza ile lecture Netanyahu alichapa pale congress ilinijazz saidi , conservative msito namgoja afanye uhomo illegal na aban NGO zao.
I don’t like the Israelites or the Arabs either they should go ahead and nuke each other i would not care, if the tables were turned the Palestinians would treat the Jews the same way the Jews treat them
ntasema mara mia tano comparing apartheid ya SA to those arab low lives is pure nonsense wahame waende Saudi arabia ama Egypt si kukatalia kwa shamba mungu alipea waisraeli .
next generation leadership. kim jong un na huyu MBS they have no time for old school bullshit. It’s true palestine leaders are a major problem and are often very illogical. Even their own personal corruption and shortcomings in Palestine they blame on Israel. Instead of letting all these young men throw stones all day why not teach them a trade? Ati wanaambiwa they’ll learn a trade when Palestine is free…
Juzi hao leaders walipewa pesa wajenge nyumba zili-bombiwa wakakula hio pesa. And you’d have to be completely blind not to notice the oppulence of some of these guys. Mahmoud abbas’s has a $13 million palace. They’ve been milking this conflict for years.
Ngoja ata hapa Africa a new crop of leaders will soon take over. Hii ujinga ya akina ruto ati lazime upewe kiti juu umengoja… sasa ati tuvumilie tu poor leadership ati kurudisha mkono. Ukweli usemwe! All these rotten fish from Uhuru, his friends, Raila, Sonko etc, kifagio inakuja. Hopefully.
change ni mzuri. hata israel change is soon coming. the old hardline guard akina natenyahu hopefully watatoka. Most young Israelis don’t even understand what all the hatred is about.
In S.A. si unaona hothead Malema hataki kujua. Hopefully he’ll be a different kind of leader.
Itaisha. Very soon kwanza juu trump ameamua kufunga mifereji ya pesa. And this Saudi guy sounds like he might also cut funding to make these people behave.
There are very many Maina Wanjigi’s in Israel, Palestine and America who make a lot of money from this conflict. This conflict is too profitable. In America it’s the lobbyists and the arms dealers of all those weapons going to Israel and all the Aid going to Palestine. In Israel the Wanjigi’s there profit from arms deals and all manner of associated lucrative tenders. In Palestine you have money coming in every year from the U.S., Russia, Qatar,Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Europe etc.
Na Trump ameshaamua kufunga hiyo mifereji yote even to the U.N. body the UNRWA watu wafanye kazi sasa no more Aid support in the name of never ending wars. And this Saudi guy as well is saying what needs to be said. Furthermore since 1960s Saudi Arabia every year gives several hundred million dollars and even billions to Palestine kwani hio pesa yote huenda wapi? It certainly doesn’t go to the people. And this war is almost a hundred years now na haiishi! Watapewa peace by force. Pesa ikipotea watatii.
Mnabembelezwa kila mwaka! Every American president anawaleta white house na camp david kama watoto. Please stop fighting…
Mahmoud Abass for instance has a net worth of over 100 million dollars, how now?! How do you amass such wealth in a war zone? Juzi he built a very expensive palace and out of shame he turned it into a library that no one will ever use.
Hamas leaders juzi walikuwa very skinny lads in worn out suits. Nowadays wamenona kama nguruwe while other Palestines starve. In most interviews you can’t fail to see the designer suits and watches
Yasser Arafat was rumored to be worth several billion dollars. Oh yes, as much as 3 billion dollars! At his prime every woman wanted him. With millions stashed in the Cayman Islands and millions more invested in companies all over the globe. How is that possible na wewe ni soldier?! Hawa watu hukula aid.
Ndio watajua Trump ni former CEO and he asks hard questions that require answers. What have you been doing with all these American dollars we’ve given you over all these decades?
The current crop of Jews are from Eastern Europe. The ones persecuted by Hitler. The Jews from the Bible were either killed, migrated or assimilated by Arabs. You would be surprised how far back Palestine goes if you brush up on your history. Did you know Jews practice Judaism and they don’t acknowledge Jesus as the son of God?