US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says President Trump was “very forceful” in his talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on restarting the peace process during his visit to the region earlier this week.
“There were very substantive discussions in Israel with both Netanyahu as well as Abbas,” Tillerson tells reporters.
“The president was very forceful in his encouragement to both of them to be serious about approaching these discussions in the future and recognize they have to compromise, everyone has to compromise,” the secretary says.
“He put a lot of pressure on them that it’s time to get to the table and he has made the point several times: we solve the Israeli-Palestinian peace dilemma, we start solving a lot of the peace throughout the Middle East region.”
Trump visited Israel and the Palestinian territories on Monday and Tuesday, where he vowed to help broker a peace agreement between the two sides. No details or timetable have yet to be established for negotiations.
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