AMMAN, Jordan — US Presidential adviser Jared Kushner is in Jordan as he tries to rally Arab support for a US peace conference next month in Bahrain.
Jordan, a key US ally, has not yet said whether it will attend.
Kushner, who arrived from Morocco, has said the conference will focus on the economic foundations of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The conference will not include core political issues, such as Palestinian statehood. The Palestinians have rejected the conference.
In this May 18, 2018 file photo, White House adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Reliant on American political and military support, it will be difficult for Jordan to reject the invitation to the conference. But with most of its people of Palestinian descent, it will be difficult to embrace a plan that does not include a Palestinian state.
— AP
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