US President Donald Trump’s senior Middle East adviser, son-in-law Jared Kushner, says the administration’s much-awaited Middle East peace plan will focus on the “redrawing of boundaries and resolving final status issues.”
In an interview with Sky News Arabic, Kushner says since “very little has changed over the last 25 years,” the Trump team worked to “formulate realistic solutions for the issues of 2019, which will improve quality of life.
US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on June 22, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem/Flash90)
“We want to bring peace, not fear. We want to ensure there is free flow of people and of goods,” he says according to translations of his remarks in Hebrew-language media. “We must create new opportunities.”
He also calls for reconciliation between the Palestinian Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority rivals in the West Bank.
“We want to see the Palestinians united under one leadership, the Palestinians want a non-corrupt government that cares for their own interests,” he says.
Kushner adds that the plan will “have a broad economic impact, not only on Israel and the Palestinians, but on the entire region as well.”
Last week, Kushner said the Trump administration would unveil the “Deal of the Century” after the Israeli elections on April 9.
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