G.O.P. Pressures Trump to Take Tough Stance With Mahmoud Abbas<br />"It’s a good test of Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership of how serious they are about wanting peace and not wanting terrorism." The legislation underscored the complexity of the peace effort<br />that Mr. Trump is embarking on as he seeks to negotiate a durable resolution to the generations-old dispute between Israelis and Palestinians that, so far, has eluded every American president.<br />We want them to move towards peace." In an Op-Ed piece Monday in The New York Times, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s minister of public security<br />and strategic affairs, called the payments "the most insidious form of encouragement to violence," one effectively subsidized by American taxpayers and other countries that finance the Palestinian Authority.<br />"President Trump stands with Israel for the same reason that every freedom-loving American stands with Israel — because her cause is our cause.<br />A host of Republican senators are lobbying Mr. Trump to use his meeting with Mr. Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, to<br />demand the cessation of financial payments to the families of Palestinians who commit violence against Israelis or Americans.<br />By PETER BAKERMAY 2, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — As President Trump hosts the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, at the White House on Wednesday for the first time, he faces enormous<br />obstacles to his new peacemaking venture — including pressure from his own party to take a tougher stance on Palestinian terrorism.<br />that The president should raise this with Mahmoud Abbas and he should push for its passage,
