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February 28, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/kushner-middle-east-peace.html

Kushner on Mideast Tour to Promote Investment Plan as Part of a Path toward Peace

(New York Times) Peter Baker - Jared Kushner, the president's senior adviser, is traveling this week through the Middle East to promote a plan to invest tens of billions of dollars in the Palestinian territories and Israel's Arab neighbors as part of his long-promised peace initiative. Kushner told leaders of Arab states that the economic plan would be critical to creating an environment in which Israel and the Palestinians could make the necessary political compromises. Analysts said they had been told the economic component would involve investing $25 billion in the West Bank and Gaza over 10 years and another $40 billion in Egypt, Jordan and perhaps Lebanon. The bulk of the money would come from the region's wealthiest states, while the U.S. would contribute as well.

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