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The First Son-In-Law
Jared Kushner: Palestinians Have Never Done Anything Right in Their Sad, Pathetic Lives
The first son-in-law has warned Palestinians not to screw up this opportunity at peace that hes so graciously given to them.
By Bess Levin
January 29, 2020
Last June, more than two years after his father-in-law assigned him the task of bringing peace to the Middle East, Jared Kushner held a big kickoff conference in Bahrain to unveil the economic portion of his planand it did not go well. For starters, Palestinian leadership boycotted the entire event, which they felt was missing a few key details, such as, just as an example, a plan for control of the West Bank and Palestinian statehood. Kushner, ever the real estate agent, gave a speech in which he spoke of transforming the Gaza Strip into a tourist destination, failing to mention Israel and Egypts 12-year blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory, in addition to Israels 52-year-long occupation of the West Bank, which restricts trade and labor movements. When the Boy Prince of New Jersey touched on politics, it was to offer the savvy take that if everyone just stopped doing terrorism, it would allow for much faster flow of goods and people. Not surprisingly, the whole thing was panned by experts, one of whom described Kushners plan as the Monty Python sketch of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives. Undeterred, Kushner got on a call with Arab and Israeli reporters and, putting on his salesman cap, explained that his vision was 100% workable, if Palestinian leadership would stop being so hysterical and stupid.
Was this the greatest way to convince people to get on board? Probably not! Yet, incredibly, Kushner apparently thought it was exactly the right approach, and we know this because on Tuesday, after the White House unveiled its full vision for peace in the Middle Eastwhich calls for no evacuation of settlements, limits Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, and includes no path to statehood beyond the vague mention of a future State of Palestinehe repeated it again, except this time he cranked the a-hole from a 12 to a 45.
Appearing on CNN, Kushner told Christiane Amanpour that critics of his planof which there are a comically huge numbermust divorce [themselves] from all of the history and focus on the deal he has outlined for them. And speaking of history, Kushner posited that if this whole thing fails, its not going to be because a glorified slumlord somehow didnt get it right, but because Palestinians are morons who dont know whats good for them. Sayeth Kushner:
You have 5 million Palestinians who are really trapped because of bad leadership. So what weve done is weve created an opportunity for their leadership to either seize or not. If they screw up this opportunitywhich again, they have a perfect track record of missing opportunitiesif they screw this up, I think they will have a very hard time looking the international community in the face, saying they are victims, saying they have rights. This is a great deal for them if they come to the table and negotiate I think they can get something excellent...
The Palestinian leadership have to ask themselves a question: Do they want to have a state? Do they want to have a better life? If they do, we have created a framework for them to have it and were going to treat them in a very respectful manner. If they dont, then theyre going to screw up another opportunity like theyve screwed up every other opportunity that theyve ever had in their existence.
The Palestinian leadership have to ask themselves a question: Do they want to have a state? Do they want to have a better life? If they do, we have created a framework for them to have it and were going to treat them in a very respectful manner. If they dont, then theyre going to screw up another opportunity like theyve screwed up every other opportunity that theyve ever had in their existence.
Dont worry, theres footage of Kushner making this statement so it can be played back for all eternity:
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Jared Kushner: Palestinians Have Never Done Anything Right in Their Sad, Pathetic Lives [View all]
babylonsister
Jan 2020
OP
"You just CAN, okay?!?" says the rich kid who has never had to work or think in his life.
Aristus
Jan 2020
#2
Sigh.. at this point, cant the united nations pool some cash, buy some empty land in the
Volaris
Jan 2020
#13
Ugh...Mr Unqualified, Conflict of interest, can't get a security clearance says what?
Docreed2003
Jan 2020
#7
Seth Abramson tweeted last spring that Jared's meddling in the ME will be the cause of WW3 nt
maryellen99
Jan 2020
#9