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Eugene

(62,658 posts)
Thu May 30, 2019, 01:08 PM May 2019

Political chaos in Israel deals blow to Jared Kushner's peace plan

Source: The Guardian

Political chaos in Israel deals blow to Jared Kushner's peace plan

Snap polls threaten Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ as his son-in-law visits Jerusalem

Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem
Thu 30 May 2019 18.36 BST First published on Thu 30 May 2019 11.50 BST

Jared Kushner’s visit to Jerusalem to promote his troubled Middle East peace plan appeared to abruptly lose its remaining energy after an overnight crisis in Israeli politics plunged the country into a months-long election campaign.

With no guarantees Benjamin Netanyahu’s Trump-friendly government will stay in power past the summer, any progress made with Kushner – Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser – is at risk of being revoked by the next Israeli administration.

One month after Israelis voted in a national poll, Netanyahu failed to form a government by a midnight deadline on Wednesday and chose to push parliament to disband rather than risk political foe Benny Gantz snatching the premiership from his grasp.

New elections are set for 17 September, and the next government may not take power until October, possibly later.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/30/political-chaos-israel-disrupts-jared-kushner-peace-plan
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Political chaos in Israel deals blow to Jared Kushner's peace plan (Original Post) Eugene May 2019 OP
Peace Plan? montanacowboy May 2019 #1
Truth! pandr32 May 2019 #2
Israel has a history of jailing corrupt Prime Ministers RedParrot May 2019 #3
LOL Scurrilous May 2019 #4

montanacowboy

(6,303 posts)
1. Peace Plan?
Thu May 30, 2019, 01:11 PM
May 2019

what Peace Plan? from the boy genius Jared? Fixer of all things? What a goddamn joke. Jared IS a Joke. A bad joke.

 

RedParrot

(112 posts)
3. Israel has a history of jailing corrupt Prime Ministers
Thu May 30, 2019, 01:34 PM
May 2019

It is extraordinary that Bibi failed to form a coalition government with small party led by Avigdor Lieberman.

Bibi is facing corruption charges, and his wife Sara, has agreed to a plea deal in a catering case.

Israel has a history of jailing top government officials for crimes committed while in office, former PM Ehud Olmert and former President Moshe Katsav.

It is against this background that Jared Kushner waltzes in with his peace plan. I am curious to know what Kushner's financial angle is on this deal of his. Jared is as corrupt as his father and father-in-law. Surely there is a money making scheme in all of this.

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