Billions of dollars aren’t going to resolve the decades-long impasse, according to Palestinian Authority leader Abbas.
On the streets of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on Monday, protesters rejected Kushner’s 40-page plan that is set to be discussed in full with Arab leaders in Bahrain on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said the Bahrain conference had “exposed” that the peace plan was about providing the Palestinians with economic help in exchange for giving up their aspirations to establish a Palestinian state.
Hady Amr, who served as deputy special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under Obama, said the fundamental problem with the Palestinian economy was not a shortage of investment but a lack of freedom and sovereignty. He pointed to the blockaded Gaza strip where some 1.8 million people live in an area twice the size of the American capital.
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