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Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump and son-in-law of Donald Trump has finally broken his silence.
And he did so by shoving a knife into the back of his father-in-law by praising Joe Bien and his chances for peace in the Middle East in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.
Kushner did have some praise for his father-in-law but what will likely be the headline in the media is his praise for Biden.
The geopolitical earthquake that began with the Abraham Accords hasn’t ended. More than 130,000 Israelis have visited Dubai since President Trump hosted the peace deal’s signing this past September, and air travel opened up for the first time in August. New, friendly relations are flowering—wait until direct flights get going between Israel and Morocco. We are witnessing the last vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The conflict’s roots stretch back to the years after World War II, when Arab leaders refused to accept the creation of the state of Israel and spent 70 years vilifying it and using it to divert attention from domestic shortcomings. But as more Muslims visit Israel through Dubai, images are populating on social media of Jews and Muslims proudly standing together. More important, Muslims are posting pictures of peaceful visits to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, blowing a hole in the propaganda that the holy site is under attack and Israelis prevent Muslims from praying there. Every time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweets something positive in Arabic about an Arab leader, it reinforces that Israel is rooting for the success of the Arab world.
One of the reasons the Arab-Israeli conflict persisted for so long was the myth that it could be solved only after Israel and the Palestinians resolved their differences. That was never true. The Abraham Accords exposed the conflict as nothing more than a real-estate dispute between Israelis and Palestinians that need not hold up Israel’s relations with the broader Arab world. It will ultimately be resolved when both sides agree on an arbitrary boundary line.
Kushner said that “The Saudi people are starting to see that Israel is not their enemy,” and that “Relations with Israel are in the Saudi national interest and can be achieved if the Biden administration leads.”
The Trump administration made significant strides in normalizing relations between Israel and the Arab world and Kushner believes that Biden is actually in a better position than Trump to continue on that road.
“The Biden administration, however, has one asset that the Trump administration never had—a relationship with Iran. While many were troubled by the Biden team’s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, I saw it as a smart diplomatic move. The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff. It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future. When Iran asked for a reward merely for initiating negotiations, President Biden did the right thing and refused,” he said.
That relationship was sadly built by the Obama / Biden administration’s weakness towards Iran and its capitulation to the terrorist supporting regime’s demands.
Kushner said, “that any deal include real nuclear inspections and an end to Iran’s funding of foreign militias.”
“The table is set,” he said. “If it is smart, the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East’s potential, keep America safe, and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability.”
Why he thinks that Biden will be tougher on Iran now than he and Obama were in the past is anyone’s guess, but it is not likely to be warmly received by his father-in-law.