(Ynet News) Alexander J. Apfel - President Trump and his Middle East advisors witnessed an insatiable, enraged, rock-throwing, blood-thirsty, suicidal mob screaming "Allahu akbar," expressing their willingness, even eagerness, to die in their quest to see the dismantlement of metal detectors. They see an abhorrent obsession with, and glorification of, death, a determination to become a martyr for reasons no reasonable, or sane person can begin to fathom. And who is the man openly encouraging this barbaric and backward behavior? Mahmoud Abbas. With regard to any prospective peace talks, Trump has already seen with whom we are expected to do business. It doesn't take the construction of a home in the West Bank to demonstrate that neither the Palestinians, nor their leaders, are partners for peace in any future negotiations. It simply takes the installation of a few metal detectors in a location where three of their men carried out a murder. With Abbas' rhetoric twice calling for a "day of rage" over the metal detectors and severing security ties with Israel, convincing Trump that he seeks peace will be no small challenge. At the same time, Netanyahu will have shown that by removing the metal detectors, he demonstrated flexibility, while the Palestinians yet again demonstrated no flexibility.
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