JERUSALEM – Peace cannot be achieved when violence is rewarded, President Donald Trump said Tuesday at a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem.
During the press conference, the president conspicuously omitted any mention of the two-state solution or a Palestinian state.
“Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded,” Trump said. He was apparently taking a jab at Abbas, whose government pays salaries to terrorists and, when they are killed carrying out an attack, to their families.
“Peace is a choice we must make each day and the U.S. is here to make that dream possible for young Jewish, Muslim and Christian children,” Trump said. “This is what I’ve spent these last few days talking about during my trip overseas.”
Referring to Monday’s terrorist attack on a concert in the UK, Trump added, “Our society can have no tolerance for this continuation of bloodshed. We cannot stand a moment longer for the slaughter of innocent people. And in today’s attack it was mostly innocent children.”
“So many young beautiful innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers,” he said. “I wont call them monsters because they would like that term, they would think that’s a great name. I will call them from now on losers because that’s what they are.” full story
