New group to promote Arab, Israel relations
WASHINGTON: Jared Kushner is forming a group to promote relations between four Arab states and Israel, normalised under agreements he helped broker as a top adviser to his father-in-law, former president Donald Trump, the group said yesterday.
Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, is founding the Abraham Accords Institute for Peace, to work on deepening agreements Israel reached last year with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Kushner is writing a book about his experience in helping broker the deals.
He will be joined in the new group by former US envoy Avi Berkowitz and ambassadors to the US from Bahrain, the UAE and Israel. The group describes itself as nonpartisan.
The founders “intend to add additional Democrats to the group as well as international advisers from the region”, it said.
The Arab countries’ agreements with Israel were opposed by the Palestinians.