An underwhelming start to the “ultimate” Israeli-Palestinian deal
Neither side shows up to discuss Jared Kushner’s plan
IT COULD HAVE been Davos, or any other conference on the annual circuit for the world’s wealthy. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and adviser to America’s president, took the stage in Manama to offer his vision for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The combatants, he lectured, were “trapped in an inefficient framework of the past”. The IMF director suggested looking at best practices from Mozambique. During a surreal segment on property rights, which lie at the very heart of the conflict, the moderator mused about using blockchain for Palestinian land deeds.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Not even halfway there”
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