- Title: Israeli settlers pray for Trump's re-election in flashpoint West Bank city
- Date: 2nd November 2020
- Summary: MAN BLOWING THE RAM'S HORN VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WITH MASKS READING 'TRUMP 2020' WOMAN CARRYING U.S. FLAG POSTER OF U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVID WIENER, 39, BEIT SHEMESH, SAYING: "I am hoping that what we are gonna see in the next day, Trump will be reelected and he is gonna start his roads of peace across the world not just in the Middle East with the three peace plans that he did. He is gonna do it across the world, we don't want any more war anywhere and that's Trump's plan and that's what he is gonna do." WOMAN N VEHICLE CARRYING US FLAG MAN DANCING WOMAN IN CAR, CARRYING US FLAG SAYING IN ENGLISH ' I love you Trump, Israel'/ VEHICLE DRIVING AWAY
- Embargoed: 16th November 2020 18:11
- Keywords: Hebron Israel President Donald Trump U.S. West Bank election settlers
- Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK/BEIT SHEMESH, ISRAEL
- City: HEBRON, WEST BANK/BEIT SHEMESH, ISRAEL
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Middle East,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA005D2VKMYV
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- Story Text: Jewish settler leaders prayed on Monday (November 2) for U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election, citing his support for Israel, during a ceremony at a biblical tomb in the occupied West Bank that has been a flashpoint of conflict with the Palestinians.
"We have come to bless President Trump, both for the past, to thank him, but also for the future, that he succeeds in the coming election," Yishai Fleisher, spokesman for the Hebron settlers, said at the Cave of the Patriarchs burial site.
One of those interred there, according to tradition, is Abraham, who is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Hoping to encourage coexistence between Jews and Palestinians, the Trump administration has named the Israeli-Arab rapprochement that it has been brokering the "Abraham Accords".
But Trump, a Republican running against Democratic former vice president Joe Biden in Tuesday's election, has been shunned by Palestinians for perceived bias since he broke with global consensus by recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
His administration has also softened U.S. disapproval of Israel's settlements on land where the Palestinians want to establish a state, and which most world powers deem illegal.
A rabbi officiating at Monday's ceremony prayed for God to secure Trump "four more years", citing the president's "commitment to the preservation and strengthening of the people of Israel, the state of Israel and the land of Israel".
In Beit Shemesh in Israel, supporters of Trump drove the streets in a rally, hoping the US president will win a second round.
A Trump peace plan stirred some settler anger, however, by proposing that Palestinians get a state on 70% of the West Bank.
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