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(171,092 posts) Sun Jun 24, 2018, 08:56 PM Jun 2018

Jared Kushner, who doesn't like reading history books, says he has a new Middle East peace plan

Just like a bull in a china shop.
Jared Kushner, who doesn’t like reading history books, says he has a new Middle East peace plan
Palestinians are not impressed.
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Jun 24, 2018, 2:48 pm

President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner says he has a new peace plan for Palestine and Israel.

Kushner — who once said that he has no desire to read books or learn the history of the region — announced his new plan in an interview with the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Quds published Sunday morning. He said he said he was “almost done” with the plan and that it would be released “soon.”

In the interview, Kushner criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and tried to appeal to the Palestinian people directly instead.

“President Abbas says that he is committed to peace and I have no reason not to believe him,” Kushner said. “However, I do question how much President Abbas has the ability to, or is willing to, lean into finishing a deal. He has his talking points which have not changed in the last 25 years. There has been no peace deal achieved in that time. To make a deal both sides will have to take a leap and meet somewhere between their stated positions. I am not sure President Abbas has the ability to do that.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/jared-kushner-new-peace-plan-palestine-israel-62e899e9ae79/