In September, Mr. Boulos met with Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He also helped deliver a letter from Mr. Abbas to Mr. Trump in July, in which Mr. Abbas wished Mr. Trump well after an attempted assassination that month.
ed note–the importance of the story below is obvious and self-evident, but for those ‘Trump is owned by d’Jooz’ ideologues who hyperfocus on one tree and in the process miss the rest of the forest, we’ll spell it out for you.
Nobody owns Donald Trump except Donald Trump. Whatever he does, he does because he has decided that it is the best thing for whatever it is that he is trying to accomplish. In the case of the MIddle East and what is quickly evolving/devolving into WWIII and Armageddon, both of which he is keen to preventing, his plans for this term are the same as they were for his first term, except that in this term, he is going to make Netanyahu pay for having betrayed him.
The fact that he has picked Boulos as his personal advisor on Middle East affairs rather than a Jew doesn’t just say a lot, it says everything. Furthermore, Boulos is on a first-name basis with Abbas, with whom Trump had a ‘father/son’ relationship during his first term until Netanyahu and his network of Jewish saboteurs destroyed that relationship as part of Israel’s sabotaging Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’.
NY Times
President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Sunday that he would name Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman and the father-in-law of his daughter Tiffany, as senior adviser covering Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.
In an announcement that did not mention the family connection, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Boulos’s business experience and his contributions to his presidential campaign.
‘Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the International scene,’ Mr. Trump said on social media. ‘He has been a longtime proponent of Republican and Conservative values, an asset to my Campaign, and was instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the Arab American Community.’
Before the election last month, Mr. Boulos played a major unofficial role in the Trump campaign, courting Arab American voters who Republican strategists hoped would support Mr. Trump out of frustration with President Biden’s support for Israel. Despite Mr. Trump’s own defiantly pro-Israel policies during his first term as president, Mr. Boulos worked to build support for him in heavily Arab American and Muslim corners of Michigan.
Through his connection to the Trump family, Mr. Boulos has already served as something of an informal liaison between Mr. Trump and Middle Eastern leaders. In September, Mr. Boulos met with Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He also helped deliver a letter from Mr. Abbas to Mr. Trump in July, in which Mr. Abbas wished Mr. Trump well after an attempted assassination that month.
While Mr. Boulos has offered few details publicly about how he would approach such an expansive role in the White House, the position could prove influential. The incoming Trump administration could be faced with maintaining a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, managing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas and dealing with sudden instability in Syria after rebel forces made startling gains this weekend.
As president, Mr. Trump put forth a number of policies favoring Israel that often alienated other Middle Eastern leaders. He recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy there, cut aid to the United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees and proposed a number of agreements between Israel and Arab states that left out provisions aimed at securing Palestinian statehood.
Mr. Boulos’s political connections to leaders in Lebanon are also somewhat murky. According to reporting by The Associated Press and several Lebanese outlets, Mr. Boulos sought a seat in Lebanon’s Parliament in 2009 and described himself as a ‘friend’ of a Lebanese presidential candidate who had received support from the militant group Hezbollah.
Mr. Boulos has more recently denied running for Parliament in Lebanon or being affiliated with any political party there, according to Newsweek.
I didnt know Tiffany was married to a Lebanese guy.