{"id":39870,"date":"2019-06-25T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39870"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:22:34","slug":"iran-us-sanctions-on-khamenei-mean-end-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39870","title":{"rendered":"Iran: US sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"90\">\n<p>\nMANAMA, Bahrain: Donald Trump wants a fair deal for Palestinians, the US president\u2019s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner said on the eve of the launch in Bahrain of the White House\u2019s $50 billion \u201cpeace for prosperity\u201d plan.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Palestinians are missing an opportunity to participate in the Middle East peace process by boycotting the Bahrain conference, Kushner said. \u201cThis is a strong package that has been put together. Fighting it instead of embracing it, I think, is a strategic mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe plan proposes a global investment fund for Palestine and neighboring Arab states, and a $5 billion transport corridor between the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian leaders have rejected it, but Kushner said their criticism was \u201cmore emotional than specific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cNobody has refuted our core premise that this would do a lot to stimulate the economy,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThe Palestinian people have been trapped in a situation for a long time and we wanted to show them, and their leadership, that there is a pathway forward that could be quite exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>\nThe Palestinian people have been trapped in a situation for a long time and we wanted to show them, and their leadership, that there is a pathway forward that could be quite exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\nJared Kushner,\u00a0US president\u2019s adviser<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nKushner said Trump decisions such as recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and moving the US Embassy there from Tel Aviv were evidence that the president kept his promises.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Palestinians might not have liked his Jerusalem decision, but he made a promise and he did it,\u201d he said. What the president wanted now was \u201cto give the Palestinian people a fair solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nKushner said the plan would double the GDP in 10 years, create over a million jobs, reduce poverty by 50 percent and bring unemployment to below 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe believe this doable,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard, but if there\u2019s a peace agreement and we set up the right structure, we think it could really lead to improving people\u2019s lives in a substantial way.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think there is a lot of enthusiasm in the West Bank and Gaza to see if we can find a political solution so that this can be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe political element of the White House plan has been delayed by uncertainty in Israel, where there will be elections this year after an earlier vote failed to produce a stable coalition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may also face a criminal trial for corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANAMA, Bahrain: Donald Trump wants a fair deal for Palestinians, the US president\u2019s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner said on the eve of the launch in Bahrain of the White House\u2019s $50 billion \u201cpeace for prosperity\u201d plan. The Palestinians are missing an opportunity to participate in the Middle East peace process by boycotting the Bahrain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39870","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\/39870","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=39870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}