According to the Jewish Insider
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was sighted on Wednesday in Baltimore, Maryland. According to a source, Abbas is receiving medical treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
An impressive motorcade of Secret Service vehicles were seen parked outside the Four Seasons Hotel in the Harbor East neighborhood of Baltimore.
Abbas’ Boeing 737 landed at Baltimore–Washington International Airport at 3:00 PM EST after a short flight from White Plains, New York, according to the Flight Radar24 site.
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Abbas’ medical treatment in Baltimore may explain the timing of his speech this week at the UN.
This past December, Haaretz reported that Abbas received an invitation to visit the White House for the second time in a year after the Trump administration was made aware that the Palestinian president was slated to be in the city for a medical procedure.
Separately in November, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt made a point of visitingPalestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat after he underwent a lung transplant operation at a hospital in Fairfax, Virginia.
Given the recent tension, whether Kushner or Greenblatt will make the short trip up to Baltimore to visit Abbas remains to be seen. According to a White House official there are currently no plans for such a visit. The official added, “but we wish him well.”
I have not seen the report elsewhere, and am trying to confirm its veracity.
Update: There seems to be truth to the report he was spotted at the hospital, but the palestinians claim it was for routine tests.
Why he went all the way to the US for them remains to be explained.
Update: Beware the fake news!
https://twitter.com/JBN/status/966723223734902785
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