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Fast Forward Kushner Launches Bahrain Workshop For Israeli-Palestinian Economic Peace Plan
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner, the key architect of the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, launched a conference in Bahrain to advance the economic portion of his plan. “The Peace to Prosperity vision is a modern framework for a brighter and more prosperous future,” Kushner said Tuesday in the capital city of Manama. A number of regional…
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Opinion No Economic Plan Can Compete With Israel’s Occupation
As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast workshop in Bahrain commences, the Trump administration has published its economic vision for the Palestinian people, a blueprint for how to spend the $68 billion the administration wants to raise from allies in the Persian Gulf. The plan promises to transform the Palestinian economy through better governance, career counseling and training,…
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Opinion That Kushner Interview Was Not Just Ignorant. It Was Racist.
The current U.S. peace team in the Middle East, guided by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, is unprecedented in its open and shameless ignorance. Kushner, Ambassador David Friedman and Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt are arrogant, hypocritical, and racist — and they never exert the slightest effort to hide it. Their inexperience and ignorance is everywhere on…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Kushner Won’t Say If Trump’s Birtherism Was Racist
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner repeatedly refused to say in an interview with Axios aired on HBO Sunday whether his father-in-law President Trump’s conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s heritage were racist. After Kushner told interviewer Jonathan Swan that he had never seen Trump say or do anything racist, Swan asked, “Was birtherism racist?” “Look,…
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Fast Forward Kushner, Descendant Of Refugees, Defends Trump Slashing Asylum-Seeking Entries
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said it “doesn’t make a difference” whether the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States has been significantly lowered by President Trump. Kushner, whose grandparents arrived in the country after fleeing the Holocaust, shared his views on immigration with “Axios on HBO” on Sunday. He said his…
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Fast Forward Palestinians To Boycott Kushner’s Peace Plan Launch: ‘We Were Not Consulted’
(JTA) — Palestinian leaders rejected a plan for an economic workshop announced as the first part of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. The Palestinians say they were not consulted on the plan to hold the conference next month in Bahrain. Finance ministers and global and regional business leaders will meet June 25-26 in Manama…
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Fast Forward GOP Senators ‘Underwhelmed’ With Kushner And Miller’s Immigration Plan
Republican senators were “underwhelmed” by White House senior advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller’s proposal to overhaul the United States’ immigration system, CNN reported. “I think folks in the room were underwhelmed” with the “whole plan,” a senior GOP official told CNN. The pitch meeting was held after weeks of discussions with key officials on…
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Fast Forward Trump, Ivanka, Jared Kushner Sued For Not Keeping Notes In Meetings With Putin, Kim Jong-Un And Others
A nonprofit watchdog group is suing Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for not keeping records of their dealings with leaders of several countries, including Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Courthouse News reported. The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a federal complaint against Trump, Kushner…
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