Abbas Spars With Israel at U.N., as Kushner Listens On
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Abbas Spars With Israel at U.N., as Kushner Listens On
20, 2018
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Speaking at the start of Tuesday’s Security Council session, Mr. Mladenov presented a grim assessment of the region, where he said "the enemies of peace are growing more confident by the day." "Our window of opportunity is closing," he said, "and if we do not seize it quickly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be engulfed in the whirlwind of religious radicalization
that remains present in the region." Mark Landler contributed reporting from Washington.
Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt left the public statements on Tuesday to Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations,
who once again defended the administration’s decision last year to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Palestinians have long sought to establish East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, and the decision to move the embassy, along with Mr. Trump’s declaration last month
that the status of Jerusalem was "off the table," has been seen by many Palestinians as precluding that possibility.
And in Gaza, home to two million Palestinians, a continuing political standoff between Hamas, the Islamist militant group,
and the secular Fatah party is leading to a "humanitarian, economic and ecological calamity," according to Nikolay Mladenov, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
20, 2018
that absol
Speaking at the start of Tuesday’s Security Council session, Mr. Mladenov presented a grim assessment of the region, where he said "the enemies of peace are growing more confident by the day." "Our window of opportunity is closing," he said, "and if we do not seize it quickly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be engulfed in the whirlwind of religious radicalization
that remains present in the region." Mark Landler contributed reporting from Washington.
Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt left the public statements on Tuesday to Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations,
who once again defended the administration’s decision last year to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Palestinians have long sought to establish East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, and the decision to move the embassy, along with Mr. Trump’s declaration last month
that the status of Jerusalem was "off the table," has been seen by many Palestinians as precluding that possibility.
And in Gaza, home to two million Palestinians, a continuing political standoff between Hamas, the Islamist militant group,
and the secular Fatah party is leading to a "humanitarian, economic and ecological calamity," according to Nikolay Mladenov, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.