Israel must start aiding the Palestinians and helping to improve their quality of life if it wants to become fully integrated into the Middle East, says Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“The biggest message that we’ve tried to convey to the Israeli leadership now is that, now that the war is over, if you want to integrate Israel with the broader Middle East, you have to find a way to help the Palestinian people thrive and do better,” he says, sitting alongside US special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
He says that the pair are “just getting started” with relaying this message to Israel.
Regarding Kushner’s vision for the Palestinian people, and what he believes allowing them to “thrive” looks like, he says that the US is “focused on creating a situation for joint security and economic opportunity for Israelis and Palestinians so that they can live side by side in a durable way.”
“What you end up calling it over time, we’ll allow the Palestinians to determine that themselves,” he says, in answer to a question about a path to Palestinian statehood.
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