No US-Israeli-Palestinian summit during Trump visit, McMaster

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. May 16, 2017, 7:21 PM (IDT)

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, disclosing details of President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip next week, disclosed that no US-Israeli-Palestinian summit was planned for launching a new peace initiative as previously reported. He would meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu twice, the second time at a private dinner in his honor and that of the first lady. Trump will meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at Bethlehem Tuesday, May 23. He will not be escorted by Israeli officials during his visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where. McMaster said he would give up a prayer for unity among the three great world faiths formoderation and tolerance. He will also visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. 

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