The president’s son-in-law did not share much empathy for the Palestinian people, a signal he might need to boost for his “conceptual map” to become a reality
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Promoting his long-awaited peace plan on CNN on Tuesday, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner did not bring his diplomatic A-game, if his goal was to convince both Israel and Palestine to come together to consider the Trump administration’s deeply-flawed vision of a new Middle East.
In addition to his apparent claim ignoring Palestinian rights under international law, the president’s son-in-law is overlooking the Trump administration’s decision to block Palestinian input at every step of the process. “They want to be able to say that they have our input,” Mahmoud al-Aloul, the vice-chairman of Palestine’s ruling Fatah Party, told the Washington Post last week. “But [Trump] is not doing this to help us, but to help his friend Netanyahu.
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