05-06-2021
Jared Kushner. (AP Photo)
The man who helped President Donald Trump generate historic progress in Middle East peace has created his own foundation to strengthen the agreements he helped build between Israel and several Arab countries.
Axios reports Jared Kushner, Trump s son-in-law and former senior advisor to the President, has founded a non-partisan, non-profit organization which will be known as the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace.
Signed in September of 2020, the Abraham Accords were probably the 45th President s best foreign policy achievement, according to Middle East observers. It also turned out to be the biggest improvement in relations between Israel and the Arab world in 25 years.
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(Barak Ravid/axios.com) Jared Kushner is founding an organization called the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace, to work on deepening the normalization agreements he helped strike between Israel and Arab countries. The nonpartisan, nonprofit organization will have a five-year mandate and be funded through private donations.
According to a statement, it will focus on increasing trade and tourism between the five signatory countries Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Morocco and Sudan and developing programs to foster people-to-people connections between the countries.
Kushner is founding the institute with former White House envoy Avi Berkowitz, who helped negotiate the agreements; Israeli-American businessman and Democratic donor Haim Saban; and three heavy hitters from the region: the Emirati and Bahraini ambassadors to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba and Abdulla R. Al-Khalifa, and Is
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Kushner was a major player in crafting the Abraham Accords in 2020. (AFP)
An exclusive report by Axios has come out yesterday suggesting that the son-in-law and senior adviser of the former US president Jared Kushner is now working on a new project, one that is strongly related to his work while in the White House.
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The report details that Kushner s project, after leaving the White House last January, will fortify his efforts to craft peace deals between Israel and a number of Arab states, within what has been framed as the Abraham Accords.
May 5, 2021
Jared Kushner is launching an organization aimed at furthering the historic normalization agreements the Donald Trump administration brokered between Israel and Arab states.
The US-crafted deals known as the Abraham Accords were Trump’s signature foreign policy achievement and saw Israel holding off on annexing large portions of the West Bank in exchange for ties with the Gulf states. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, was among the lead negotiators.
The Abraham Accords Institute for Peace will promote trade and tourism between Israel and the four countries with whom it recently established diplomatic ties: Sudan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.