How Trump Will Blow Up Kushner’s Peace Deal

The following article by Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer was posted on the National Memo website December 6, 2017:

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What on earth is Trump thinking?

That’s a question one asks all too often about the president. But the contradiction between President Donald Trump’s expected announcement that he will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — at the very same time his son-in-law is trying to concoct the “ultimate” deal between Israelis and Palestinians — is downright schizoid.

On the one hand, First Son-in-law Jared Kushner, paired with Trump’s real estate lawyer Jason Greenblatt, have been traversing the Mideast for the last several months trying to come up with a peace plan whose details still remain a secret. But the plan will reportedly emerge early in the new year. Continue reading “How Trump Will Blow Up Kushner’s Peace Deal”