Kushner defends US stance on Palestinians

Three days after the Trump administration evicted the Palestine Liberation Organisation from its offices in Washington, Jared Kushner defended the string of punitive actions against the Palestinians, insisting none of them had diminished chances of a peace accord with the Israeli occupation regime.

Speaking on Thursday, 25 years to the day the Oslo peace accords were signed, Kushner said US President Donald Trump had actually improved chances of peace by stripping away the “false realities” surrounding Middle East peacemaking.

Kushner said he did not want to be too critical of the Oslo accords, which created the framework for negotiations over the last three decades. But he cast his own efforts as a radical break with the past, evincing little nostalgia for the historic images of Bill Clinton drawing together Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993.