Goldberg: Kushner's absurd peace plan has failed
Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
May 19, 2021
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Israeli police and Palestinian protesters clash in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Justice for the Palestinians is crucial for peace.Mahmoud Illean /Associated Press
“We are witnessing the last vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict,” Jared Kushner crowed in The Wall Street Journal two months ago.
He was surveying the results of the Abraham Accords, the ersatz Middle East peace plan he helped negotiate under Donald Trump. At the heart of his supreme self-assurance, and of the accords themselves, was the deadly fiction that the Palestinians were so abject and defeated that Israel could simply ignore their demands.