Palestinian officials on Sunday dismissed a $50 billion economic stimulus package unveiled by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner as a “snow job”
Mounir el-Jagoub, a spokesman for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, cast the plan as an effort to use funds from wealthy Arab countries “to kill the political aspirations of the Palestinian people.” Kushner’s proposal was unveiled just days before leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia and several Gulf states will huddle in Bahrain for a conference on Middle East peace.
An adviser to the Palestinian private sector and founder of a public relations firm in Jerusalem, Kamel Husseini, said the plan put forward by Kushner and his team was met with criticism because it focuses only on economic conditions in Palestinian territories and not on looming political questions about statehood.
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