Serial liar

claim and regularly fight over space. Who wants to pray in a place like that? MEIRAV PETERS Jerusalem

With regard to Caroline B. Glick’s “The PLO’s most powerful lobbyists” (Column One, May 12), Ronald Lauder’s naive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Palestinian conflict and his enormous confidence in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will soon wane.

Abbas’s approach to President Donald Trump is completely different from his approach to former president Barack Obama. The latter was a good and solid friend of the Palestinians; Abbas just had to put his demands in front of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, and they – loyal messengers – would transfer them to the Israeli negotiating team and put the pressure on.

With President Trump, the situation is different. The president is a good friend of Israel, so the shrewd Abbas first must gain his confidence by making all kinds of promises, like stopping media incitement against Israel and Jews; putting education in the charge of Israel-loving teachers (if they exist at all); and taking streets named after terrorists and renaming them after Israel-loving personalities (if they exist at all).

If, after several months, President Trump asks Abbas why he did not implement any of his promises as an overture to peace, Abbas will reply: Mr. President, it is true that I gave you all kind of promises, but I never promised to keep them.

This will be the awakening of Mr. Lauder and President Trump as to the real Abbas: a serial liar. SHLOMO FELDMANN

Givatayim