Trump’s envoy set to arrive to iron out final details of visit

17 May 2017, 6:39 pm

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US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt is set to arrive in Israel tomorrow ahead of Trump’s visit next week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Greenblatt is set to coordinate the content of the meeting, Channel 2 says, amid disputes over a planned Trump visit to the Western Wall and a US refusal to allow Israeli officials to accompany him to the holy site.

Trump is due to arrive on May 22.

The report said both Israel and the US were eager to put the disputes behind them — including a report that Trump apparently leaked Israeli intelligence to the Russians — and demonstrate the warm relations between the two allies.

It also says that officials had completely ruled out any possibility of a three-way meeting between Trump, Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during the trip.