In the end, the ‘deal of the century’ was little more than a failed clearance sale. Jared Kushner arrived in Bahrain touting bedrock principles at untenable discounts. The conference that was supposed to offer a new way out of the malaise of the Israel/Palestine conflict provided little of the sort. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said of Kushner’s plan: “It is totally divorced from reality. There was little reason to take such a claim on face value before the Bahrain summit, and even less so now.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 18:56 UTC