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Pres. Trump proposes 2 state solution for Israel and Palestinians

  
Analysis, Politics
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Mideast peace plan from Pres. Trump

  • Pres. Trump proposes 2 state solution for Israel and Palestinians with Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem
  • Israel has agreed to negotiate on the basis of a detailed proposed the map
  • Israel agreement on statehood for Palestinians is dependent on security arrangement to protect Israelis
  • Israel respect historic role of Al-Aqsa mosque and Jordan’s role with regard to holy sites with the aim of allowing Muslims to visit mosque
  • Palestinian state hold is dependent on Palestinians respecting human rights, freedom of the press, and having a transparent and credible judiciary
  • Israelis West Bank settlements would be recognized by the United States
  • in exchange for Israel’s agreeing to the proposed map, the US will recognize the map
  • Israeli would agree to 4 year freeze on settlement activity while Palestinian statehood negotiated
  • we bought 4 more years for Palestinians to get their act together and negotiate state
  • question for Palestinians. The question is is will they come to the table and negotiate
  • if Palestinians agree to negotiate there are some areas that can be compromised in the future
  • proposed Palestinian state would be connected with roads, bridges and tunnels with connectivity between Gaza and West Bank
  • Trump plan calls for Palestinian refugees to be able to return to a future state of Palestine and creates generous compensation fund.
Israel and Palestinian talks broke down in 2014.  US officials are bracing for initial Palestinian skepticism, but hope that over time they will agree to negotiate.
US plan represent the most dramatic and detailed attempt to break the historic deadlock. The Palestinians are skeptical as they say the US administration is biased toward Israel.

Pres. Trump pushed Ukraine to work with Giuliani, Barr on Biden’s son

  
Analysis, Politics
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Rough transcript of call with Ukraine released

  • Pres. Trump asked Ukrainian presidents Zelenskiy to examine whether democratic US president candidate Biden stopped investigation of company in which his son was involved
  • Trump told Ukraine Pres. “there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son”
  • if you can look into it…. It sounds horrible to me
  • US has been very good to Ukraine but did not directly mention foreign aid
  • Justice Department concluded Trump did not violate campaign finance laws
  • US Atty. Gen. Barr has not spoken with Trump about having Ukraine investigate anything according to the Justice Department

Trump turned down idea from Mnuchin to warn the Chinese

  
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Headline says: “Pres. announced tariffs after tense oval office meeting”

There is a headline saying that the president announced tariffs after a tense oval office meeting. According to the report, the president ruled out Treasury Secretary’s Mnuchin’s proposal to warn China of potential new tariffs.

It does not say how Lighthizer sided, but got to think he and Navarro were a thumbs up.  Larry Kudlow was likely a thumbs down.  If Wibur Ross was in the room, he would be a thumbs up too.
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