Trump talks Middle East plans
US President-elect Donald Trump, in a meeting with The New York Times on Nov. 22, discussed many critical matters in the region, including ending the Syrian war and forging Israeli-Palestinian peace.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Nov. 22 that “we have to end” the Syrian war, but he did not think the United States should be involved in nation building. Trump also said that he would love to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict, and thought his son-in-law Jared Kushner could help.
“We have to end that craziness that’s going on in Syria,” Trump said during a 75-minute, on-the-record meeting with reporters and editors at The New York Times headquarters on Nov. 22, according to tweets of the meeting posted by Times staff.
“We have to solve that problem,” Trump said of Syria, adding, however, that he has a “different view than everybody else.”
Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence met Nov. 21 with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a veteran and fierce critic of US efforts to support rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
