Kushner-Trump Middle East Peace Deal Could Be in Trouble After Netanyahu is Forced to Call Fresh Election
- Kushner-Trump Middle East Peace Deal Could Be in Trouble After Netanyahu is Forced to Call Fresh Election
by Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
Jared Kushner’s visit to Jerusalem to promote his Middle East peace plan could be losing steam as Israel heads into the uncharted territory of a second election in a calendar year following Benjamin Netanyahu’s inability to form a government by Wednesday night’s deadline.
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The move means Israel will hold new elections on Sept. 11 that could put the already long-delayed Kushner-U.S. peace plan in peril. There are now no guarantees that Netanyahu’s Trump-friendly government will stay in power past the summer and any progress made with President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law is at risk of being revoked by a new Israeli administration.
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“The Trump peace plan is on ice – maybe permanently,” Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel between 2011 and 2017, told the Jewish Insider.
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Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, America’s Middle East envoy, arrived in Jerusalem Wednesday night just hours before Israel’s parliament voted to disband. The pair is expected to meet with Netanyahu on Thursday. The trip was scheduled ahead of the recent political developments and was supposed to take place before a conference scheduled in Bahrain next month. The United States has touted the economic part of the Trump-Kushner peace plan as the “deal of the century”, though the deal, some say, couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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Jonathan Schanzer, vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has worked closely with the Trump administration on Middle East policies and told the Washington Examiner that while the new developments in Israel complicate the process, a deal isn’t dead-on-arrival.
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