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The President looks fond of Abbas, I can't argue with his son in law.
Posted on 07/08/2019 6:28:52 PM PDT by SJackson
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said “the U.S. peace plan is good, we need support.”
The Palestinian leadership’s reaction to the Bahrain economic workshop was “hysterical and erratic and not particularly constructive,” US senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Wednesday, in a post-Bahrain workshop conference call.
He said that the US will present the next steps in its peace plan as early as next week, as a follow-up to the “Peace to Prosperity” conference held last week in Bahrain.
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“They looked very foolish by trying to fight this,” Kushner said during the call geared for Arab journalists in the region, adding that the Palestinian leadership made a “strategic mistake” by boycotting the conference. “Palestinians are starting to see that Israel is not responsible for their problems, it’s their leaders.”
Kushner, a key architect of the Bahrain meeting, said that eventually the Palestinian leadership “will have to step up at some point and show that they want their people to live better lives.”
At the same time, he said, “I have a lot of respect for [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas, he’s devoted his life to making peace, he’s suffered some setbacks along the way. I believe in his heart he wants to make peace, and that we can give him an opportunity to try to achieve that.”
Kushner added that US President Donald Trump is “very fond” of Abbas personally, and that the “door is always open” for the Palestinian leadership. The president, he said, “likes him [Abbas] very much personally and, at the right time, if they’re willing to engage I believe that they’ll find that they will have an opportunity.”
Kushner said that certain people around Abbas “are very uncomfortable with the way we’ve approached this, and their natural reaction is to attack and say crazy things.”
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Kushner made it clear that the $50 billion economic plan that was presented at Bahrain would not be implemented until it becomes clear what the peace deal will look like. The 60-page political chapter of the plan is not expected to be released until after a new government is formed in Israel following the September election.
“We are talking with some of our partner countries about finding ways to create the right mechanism to potentially implement it, in the event there is progress on the political front,” he said. “What we want to do is finalize it and make it more real.”
Kushner noted that “at some point there will be negotiations on the political issues, and when that happens I think it will give a lot more comfort for these negotiations for people to see that there is a defined, locked-and-loaded economic plan for what could occur after a political breakthrough is reached.”
Kushner hinted that the US political plan might call for the settlement of Palestinian refugees and their descendants in countries where they now live, noting that “Jewish refugees were able to integrate in other societies around the world.”
“Look, you have a situation when this whole thing started where you had 800,000 Jewish refugees that came out of all the different Middle Eastern countries and you had 800,000, roughly, Palestinian refugees,” he said.
“And what’s happened to the Israeli – to the Jewish – refugees, is they have been absorbed by different places whereas the Arab world has not absorbed a lot of these refugees over time,” he said. “I think that the people of Lebanon would love to see a resolution to this issue, one that is fair. And I also think that the refugees, the Palestinian refugees who are in Lebanon, who are denied a lot of rights and who, you know, don’t have the best conditions right now would also like to see a situation where there is a pathway for them to have more rights and to live a better life.”
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The President looks fond of Abbas, I can't argue with his son in law.
Donald Trump was great at building his brand Trump Inc. He has been very subpar at hiring advisors and administration as American president.
All right. What’s Abbass gonna get? You know it’s in the billions. Feeding the enemy. It didn’t work when Clinton did it with the Norks and it won’t work here.
He has been very subpar at hiring advisors and administration as American president.Maybe you should advise him. It being so easy and you being the expert and all.
Nice to see Kushner has it in him. So far he doesn’t seem nearly as bad in the administration as I thought he would. He’s pretty quiet, though, and it’s taking a while to get a good read on him.
Abbas: “Take a chance on me.”
The United States doesn’t need to be intervening in how Israel handles its insurgency problem.
The little idiot is following the same useless stupidity Kissinger was peddling.
How do you find continued wasted lives and money on that scale respectable?
“How do you find continued wasted lives and money on that scale respectable?”
I don’t understand your question. Care to elaborate?
No, I suppose someone who has never fought over there would.
Even though it is very simple.
When Israel was formed, devout Muslims from all across the Islamic world traveled to Israel to wipe out the Jews. The Mufti of Jerusalem travelled to Berlin to gain collaboration on eliminating the Jews, and in return Muslim rebels worked to sabotage middle eastern oil supplies for the allies.
The whole purpose these people went to Israel was to exterminate the Jews.
That is still their purpose.
There are no positive results possible from dealing diplomatically with the Palestinians, and every dollar sent for any supposed humanitarian purpose is really a dollar spent to kill Jews.
Let Israel handle the Palestinians.
Under Palestinian administration the land returns to its desert state and will not feed the Palestinians.
Yeah that’s why he’s doing so damn well. Try again.
Erraticate the vermin! They are more disposed in the region than the Jews are.
Thanks. I get your point now. My comment about Kushner was because it seems he and Trump seem to be considerably less accommodating to the Palestinians than the Obama or W Administrations were.
You concede that the Palestinians cannot keep the land productive unless the Israelis do things for them (like purify water) and then babble on as if my statement about Palestinian agriculture were not an absolute truth.
So, Harvard man?
Who is going to fund this so-called $50 billion economic plan? Surely NOT the American taxpayers.
We’re supposed to give money to the muzzies who danced in the streets and handed out candy after the World Trade Center was destroyed? Like hell!
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