Jared Kushner
Ahead of the workshop, the Trump administration released a 40-page document detailing a $50 billion, 10-year investment plan for the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said “there’s a difference between the technocrats and ... the people,” adding that “when I speak to Palestinian people, what they want is they want the opportunity to live a better life. They want the opportunity to pay their mortgage.”
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the plan’s release, which will begin with an economic workshop in Bahrain scheduled for June 25-26.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said the strategy focuses on “how do we make life for Palestinians better?” and “how do we make Israel safer?”
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner reportedly told a group of ambassadors that the highly anticipated Mideast peace plan will be released after Israel forms a new government and after the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is on a trip to the Middle East this week with stops in includes the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia to promote the Trump administration’s upcoming peace plan regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s concerns about the Kushner interview on Sky News Arabia: “There’s a clear and immediate danger in front of us: the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Talks will include “an important element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence.”
A U.S. State Department official told JNS, “We intend to release the president’s vision when the administration concludes that we have maximized its potential for acceptance, execution and implementation.”
His weeklong trip, which is scheduled to include stops in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and possibly Morocco, is planned for the last week of February.
“The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East” will include U.S. and Israeli officials, as well as the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain.
The two are expected to meet with foreign officials on the highly anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, which U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said will be released after the Israeli elections on April 9.
