{"id":1169867,"date":"2021-12-29T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169867"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:19:14","slug":"israeli-defense-minister-gantz-under-fire-for-hosting-pa-president-abbas-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-defense-minister-gantz-under-fire-for-hosting-pa-president-abbas-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Defense Minister Gantz Under Fire for Hosting PA President Abbas at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-defense-minister-gantz-under-fire-for-hosting-pa-president-abbas-at-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has come under fire from his coalition partners for hosting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his home in on Tuesday night, marking the first time the Palestinian leader has held talks with a senior Israeli official in Israel in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gantz, the meeting&nbsp;discussed cooperation on the security front and preventing terrorism and violence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gantz also told Abbas that he wished to continue promoting cooperation on economic and civil matters.<\/p>\n<p>The two previously met in Ramallah over the summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This evening I met with PA President, Mahmoud Abbas. We discussed the implementation of economic and civilian measures, and emphasized the importance of deepening security coordination and preventing terror and violence \u2013 for the well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d2\u05e0\u05e5 \u2013 Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gantzbe\/status\/1475958370960125953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The two-and-a-half hour meeting was also attended by&nbsp;Israel\u2019s military liaison to the Palestinians Ghassan Alian,&nbsp;Palestinian Authority intelligence chief Majed Faraj, and Abbas adviser Hussein al-Sheikh who said the two&nbsp;discussed a \u201cpolitical horizon leading to a political solution,\u201d as well as the recent spike in violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Recent weeks have also seen a sharp increase in terror attacks by Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Kan news reported that Abbas pledged that as long as he was in power, he wouldn\u2019t permit the use of violence or terror against Israelis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9827255\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/abbas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9827255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/abbas.png\" alt=\"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, speaks after laying a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside the Mukataa government compound, in the the West Bank city of Ramallah as Palestinians commemorate the 14th anniversary of his death, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo\/Nasser Shiyoukhi)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after laying a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the 14th anniversary of his death, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo\/Nasser Shiyoukhi)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Israeli media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/gantzs-right-wing-coalition-partners-assail-him-for-hosting-pa-chief-abbas\/\">reports<\/a>,&nbsp;Abbas and Gantz exchanged gifts. At one stage during the meeting, Gantz\u2019s son, an Israeli soldier, and Abbas commented: \u201cI hope peace comes out of this house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was said to have criticized Gantz for holding the meeting, in particular in his home.<\/p>\n<p>Gantz\u2019s coalition party, Housing Minister Ze\u2019ev Elkin of the right-wing New Hope, slammed Gantz for hosting Abbas, who has pledged to pay salaries for terrorists and their families under the PA\u2019s so-called \u201cpay-for-slay\u201d scheme \u2014 a policy the aging Palestinian leader has said was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2018\/08\/14\/pa-reiterates-vow-to-continue-paying-terrorists-and-their-families\/\">noble<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Elkin also noted that Abbas has pushed for senior&nbsp;Israeli security officials, including Gantz himself, to face prosecution by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaking of bigoted statements from world leaders\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ip1iQcXooL\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ip1iQcXooL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/952916043822977024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MK Yoaz Hendel, also of New Hope, said that despite ongoing security ties with the PA, he would have never agreed to meet with Abbas, whom he described as a \u201cHolocaust denier [who] is playing a very strange double game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Times of Israel<\/em> notes,&nbsp; Abbas\u2019 history of Holocaust denial dates back to his 1980s doctoral dissertation \u2013 in which he refuted the six million figure and claimed that Zionist leaders cooperated with the Nazis \u2013 until as recently as 2018, when he said that the Holocaust was caused not by antisemitism, but by the \u201canti-social behavior\u201d of the Jews, such as money-lending.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, slammed the meeting, warning that \u201cit\u2019s only a matter of time until there are dangerous concessions to the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, the Defense Ministry announced several \u201cconfidence-building\u201d steps, including the transfer of $32.2 million in tax payments and several thousand resident permits for the PA as well as entry permits into Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has come under fire from his coalition partners for hosting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his home in on Tuesday night, marking the first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}