Palestinian Authority VP meets diplomat expected to serve on Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace

The Times of Israel: Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh met Friday with former UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, who is expected to serve as a top official for the supervisory US‑backed Board of Peace in Gaza.

The meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah came a day after Mladenov held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and met with President Isaac Herzog.

Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat, served as the United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process from early 2015 until the end of 2020. During that time, he frequently worked to ease tensions and broker ceasefires between Israel and Hamas.

Mladenov is expected to serve as the representative on the ground in Gaza for the Board of Peace — a transitional body for the war-torn territory.  Read More…

Opinion: Nickolay Mladenov said this in 2017:

“For the Jewish people, Jerusalem is and always will be the center of their life, their culture, for thousands of years. It is and it will always be,” Mladenov, the UN’s special coordinator for the peace process, said at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic conference in the city’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. ”

If Mladenov’s acknowledgment of Jerusalem as an eternal Jewish city had ended there, the  Board of Peace would be off to a good start. Mladenov is slated to be a central figure as the director-general for the U.S.-led “Board of Peace.”

But he most definitely did not.

Mladenov continued “It (Jerusalem) is also the center of life for the Palestinian people. It is and it will always be,” he added. “It will always host Christian, Jewish and Muslim holy sites. This is what makes Jerusalem so universally important to everyone, and this is what makes any decision on Jerusalem so emotional.”

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.” Zech. 14:2-3

And that day is drawing near.