Abbas and Trump. (photo credit: REUTERS)
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The Palestinian leadership’s reaction to the Bahrain economic workshop was “hysterical and erratic and not particularly constructive,” US senior official Jared Kushner said on Wednesday in a post-Bahrain workshop conference call.
He said that as early as next week the US will present the next steps in its peace plan as a follow-up to the “Peace to Prosperity” conference held last week in Bahrain.
“They looked very foolish by trying to fight this,” Kushner said during the call geared for Arab journalists, adding that the Palestinian leadership made a “strategic mistake” by boycotting the conference. “Palestinians are starting to see that Israel is not responsible for their problems, it’s their leaders.”
Kushner said that at a certain time the Palestinian leadership “will have to step up at some point and show that they want their people to live better lives.”
At the same time, he said, “I have a lot of respect for President Abbas, he’s devoted his life to making peace, he’s suffered some setbacks along the way. I believe in his heart he wants to make peace, and that we can give him an opportunity to try to achieve that.”
Kushner added that US President Donald Trump likes Abbas personally and that the “door is always open” for the Palesitnian leadership.
Kushner made it clear that the $50 billion economic plan that was presented at Bahrain would not be implemented until there is an actual understanding of a peace deal.
“We are talking with some of our partner countries about finding ways to create the right mechanism to potentially implement it in the event there is progress on the political front,” he said. What we want to do is finalize it and make it more real.”
“At some point there will be negotiations on the political issues and when that happens I think it will give a lot more comfort for these negotiations for people to see that there is a defined, locked-and-loaded economic plan for what could occur after a political breakthrough is reached,” he added.
Kushner hinted that the US plan might call on the settlement of the descendants of Palestinian refugees in countries where they now live, noting that “Jewish refugees were able to integrate in other societies around the world.”
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