Hussein Ibish, Columnist

Why Trump’s Mideast Peace Envoy Trolls Palestinians

Twitter insults will make it harder to say yes to a soon-to-be-delivered White House proposal. It’s a blame game.

Twitter troll.

Photographer: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images
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The most significant social media account in the U.S. presidential administration belongs to the tweeter-in-chief, Donald Trump. But the Twitter feed of Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s negotiator on Israel-Palestinian issues, is a close second.

Greenblatt’s tweets sound frivolous and naive, but they’re clearly calculated to poison the atmosphere before the publication of the administration’s promised peace proposal.