'President Trump and America have not given up on you,” Jared Kushner said, but no one from the Palestinian Authority was there to hear him
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at the"Peace to Prosperity" conference in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2019.
And the US apparently had not invited the Israeli administration in the absence of the Palestinian Authority.plan, revealed on Tuesday, is significant not because it offers a way to build peace between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, but because of its lack of political content. Both Trump and Kushner have close ties with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the new plan seems to be aimed at pressuring the Palestinian Authority into accepting economic improvement as a means to“The basic policy is to increase the suffering of Palestinian people to a point where they surrender or give up the idea of resistance for a national struggle and then, reward that acceptance by improving the economic conditions for keeping them as second-class political participants in...
As far as infrastructure goes, the plan aims to “ensure continual availability of affordable electricity in the West Bank and Gaza, double the potable water supply per capita available to the Palestinians, and enable Palestinian high-speed data services”.
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