{"id":33308,"date":"2019-02-26T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33308"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:27:21","slug":"kushner-says-us-middle-east-peace-plan-addresses-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33308","title":{"rendered":"Kushner says US Middle East peace plan addresses borders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jared Kushner, US President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/span><\/a>‘s son-in-law and White House senior adviser, said a US peace plan for the Middle East<\/span><\/a><\/span> will address final issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/a>, including establishing borders.<\/p>\n

In an interview broadcast on Monday on Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi, Kushner made no specific mention of a Palestinian state, whose creation had been at the foundation of Washington’s peace efforts for two decades.<\/p>\n

However, he said the long-awaited peace proposal would build on “a lot of the efforts in the past”, including the 1990s Oslo Accords<\/a> that provided a foundation for Palestinian statehood, and would require concessions from both sides.<\/p>\n

Kushner<\/span>\u00a0is on a five-nation tour to Gulf Arab states. Accompanied by US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and US envoy for\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0Brian Hook, Kushner is visiting\u00a0Oman<\/a>, Bahrain,\u00a0Saudi Arabia<\/a>, the United Arab Emirates and\u00a0Qatar<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

US officials said that Kushner was expected to focus on the economic component of the plan during the week-long trip, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

However, Kushner said that in addition to its economic component, the proposal also contained a “political plan, which is very detailed” and “really about establishing borders and resolving final-status issues”.<\/p>\n

“The goal will be to focus on developing the infrastructure, the rules, the training for a lot of the people so that you can bring a lot of opportunities and prosperity to the region,” said Kushner.<\/p>\n

Kushner, 38, has been given responsibility over Washington’s Israel-Palestine policy, along with other top postings, after his father-in-law was inaugurated in January 2017.<\/p>\n

Reactions<\/h2>\n

Kushner’s reference to borders heated up Israel<\/a>‘s election campaign on Tuesday. Far-right politicians portrayed his comments as a harbinger to a Palestinian state they oppose.<\/p>\n

Naftali Bennett, a hardline rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, accused the Israeli leader of conspiring with Kushner to establish a Palestinian state. Netanyahu, meanwhile, vowed to resist pressure to make concessions.<\/p>\n

Kushner said Washington would present the plan only after the April 9 vote.<\/p>\n

The Palestinians have pre-emptively rejected the plan, with President Mahmoud Abbas\u00a0saying<\/span><\/a>\u00a0he will not negotiate with the US in the wake of Trump’s controversial decision to\u00a0recognise<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017.<\/p>\n

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator in talks that collapsed in 2014, said on Twitter about Kushner’s comments that “Trump’s map” envisaged “isolated territories for the Palestinians”.<\/p>\n

Erekat also said a plan that doesn’t establish a Palestinian state “will not fly”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jared Kushner, US President\u00a0Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser, said a US peace plan for the Middle East will address final issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including establishing borders. In an interview broadcast on Monday on Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi, Kushner made no specific mention of a Palestinian state, whose creation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}