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A Middle East Peace Plan Built on Un-American Principles

Jared Kushner wants to use prosperity as a shiny object to distract Palestinians while their political aspirations are swept away.
Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters

The Trump administration hasn’t actually released its Middle East peace plan. It’s so closely held that the Palestinians who are to be its object have not been invited into discussions of the subject. But the whispers of those who have been consulted suggest the possibility that the sequencing will commence with economic incentives for Palestinian acceptance of eventual subjugation into the state of Israel—a “one-state solution,” in diplomatic parlance.

If that is the White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s approach, it would represent a reversal of the administration’s policy, which has

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