Trump is sucking all the air out of the news. I did see that Netanyahu won the lastest election. I DIDN'T see that he failed to form a government.
Israel is now headed to an unprecedented repeat election just weeks after the last poll, and this just as one rather significant foreign visitor, Jared Kushner, arrives in Jerusalem.
While Kushner’s Israel sojourn was scheduled before this most recent domestic political crisis, his decision to go through with the trip was likely meant to send a signal, however implausible, that the Trump administration may still push ahead with the planned release of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan next month, starting with a regional economic conference in Bahrain.
The so-called “deal of the century” has been termed “dead on arrival” by the Palestinian Authority after a slew of U.S. diplomatic and financial decisions it views as sanctions against it (and benefiting Israel).
Daily Beast
"The deal of the century"? It's not something to benefit Israel and Palestine. It's a wheeler-dealer's big win. Jesus, these people.
Palestinian officials intend to boycott the conference, in line with the wider rupturing of their relationship with Washington.
And more power to them.
The American peace team led by Jared Kushner seems unconcerned. “Our goal can’t be to keep things stable and as they are… Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there,” Kushner wrote in an email leaked last year, summing up his approach.
Christ.
Kushner and his fellow peace envoys, real estate businessmen all, are now likely counting on yet another “bail out” as their multi-year project goes public.
A bunch of fucking real estate wheeler-dealers in charge of coming up with a peace plan in one of the world's most volatile locations. What a brilliant idea.
The deal in question is now set to be partially unveiled during the economic conference in Bahrain next month. It is there that Kushner and his team will be seeking donations from various Arab governments–reportedly some $25 billion–to, as the press release put it, “offer Palestinians exciting new opportunities to realize their full potential.”
Palestinian officials and businessmen have rejected the move as a “payoff” in order to forfeit their “national rights.” Seeking to throw other people’s money at the Israeli-Palestinian problem, many self-created by Washington in the last 18 months, is broadly in line with the Trump administration’s approach to date.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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