Thursday, March 05, 2020
Elder of Ziyon
On Wednesday, jared Kushner gave a presentation to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the administration's "Peace to Prosperity" plan.
According to Barak Ravid as reported by Axios, he showed the same Powerpoint presentation that he showed the UN Security Council last month.
The main point that Kushner pushed is that the status quo does not incentivize either Israel or the Palestinians to take any risks.
Here it is:
Interestingly, Kushner's argument was anti-settlement. A White House official was quoted, “Kushner’s message was that every time negotiations failed, the Palestinians got more money and Israel was able to keep expanding the settlements, but the peace process became a false notion and didn’t solve anything. Both parties' leaderships just kept getting what they want without improving the lives of the people."
Kushner told the committee that the plan was still quite alive. he said that there were several positive statements about the plan from Arab countries, that the EU was not united in opposition to the plan, and that the Palestinians push against the plan stalled at the UN when they tried and failed to create a Security Council resolution.
