The New US “Peace Team”: A Test of Will – JARED KUSHNER ON TOUR

MESOP MIDDLE EAST

By Ambassador Arye Mekel, August 21, 2017 – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 565, August 21, 2017 (ISRAEL)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, and US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell will soon arrive in our region. This “peace team” will meet with leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority to examine ways to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process while also addressing issues of far more importance to Arab leaders, such as Iranian subversion in the region, the situation in Syria, the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and the Sunni Muslim states, as well as what is commonly referred to as “the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”

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