Donald Trump on Tuesday released a letter he received from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemning the assassination attempt against the Republican presidential candidate.
“Your Excellency,” began Abbas’s brief letter to the 78-year-old former president, “I have heard the news and subsequently seen the video of the assassination attempt on Your Excellency and am deeply concerned.”
“There is no place for violence in a world of law and order,” Abbas said in the letter, written the day after the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “Tolerance of others and respect for human life must prevail.”
“These despicable acts of assassination attempts and successful assassinations are a sign of weakness and failure to understand peaceful means to resolve conflicts,” the 88-year-old Palestinian leader added. “Differences must be resolved through communication with freedom of expression.”
Abbas concluded his letter from the West Bank by offering his “thoughts” to the families of those killed and injured in the shooting and wishing President Trump “strength and safety.”
The former president shared the letter, scrawled in Sharpie beneath the Palestinian leader’s note, on Truth Social.
“Mahmoud. Very good. Thank you. Everything will be fine. Best of luck,” Trump replied.
The Republican candidate added in a social media post that he was “looking forward to meeting Bibi Netanyahu on Friday and looking even more forward to seeing peace in the Middle East!”
Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, two days after the prime minister addresses a joint session of Congress.
Since Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel in October last year, the Biden administration Strongly supportive “A united West Bank and Gaza under a revitalized Palestinian Authority” led by Abbas.
