Is Kushner prostrating himself before Biden

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  1. @ Michael S:

    Again this ONCE.

    The story of Nero burning Roman “Candles” is seriously doubted by all major historians. The Roman persecution of Christians itself is also doubted, certainly as to it’s intensity. The source is only Tacitus, who was about 8-10 years old when Nero died, and also was writing over 40 years later, when Trajan ruled, a completely different dynasty/..

    There could have been no more than 50-100 Christians in Rome then if there were any at all. They weren’t even called Christians until some time after the Bar Kocheba War, ending in135-6, maybe not until long after- assuming that early Christian writings are all suspect. and anachronistic, as has been shown many times. .,

    Remember this was supposed to have happened in about 65-66. Since most (or all) of Paul’s Letters have been found to be forgeries, that he was even in Rome visiting Christians is seriously in doubt. That a person named Paul ever existed is in serious doubt. What is NOT in doubt is, that even if he did exist, he was NOT A ROMAN CITIZEN but was a liar. like many of the early Christian “historians”.. I have written exhaustively on the almost impoasibility of acquiring Roman Citizenship in past posts, and it’s becoming null at the death of the emperor, and not neccessarily renewed by the successor..

    And yes, your Roman history is wonky. (much like Christian”history”) Rome was pillaged and partially destroyed shortly after 400, by Alaric and his Visigoth hordes.. I recall that from school history even. It finally collapsed permanently within the next 50 years, leaving only the former Eastern Roman Empire intact in Constantinople, formerly and subsequently named Byzantium.. It became the Byzantine Empire.

    Sorry……!!

  2. @ Edgar G.:
    Thanks, Edgar. It’s been over 40 years since I studied Roman History. I was about 39 then, still wet behind the ears. Obviously, you don’t consider burning Christians as human torches to be a serious problem with Nero; a point on which we disagree. We do agree that Caligula was bonkers.

  3. I very much doubt that Jared Kushner is a traitor! Whatever he is, it’s highly unlikely that he’d be a traitor or anything else of a very negative bent! Pres. Trump will likely know all about him and would not be likely to treating him a a son were he a traitor!
    Sincerely,
    Frances Weingaren

  5. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    If you are referring to the “sunset clauses”, I didn’t disregard them, I just included them in the Abraham Accord where they are placed. I don’t think they needed specific mention, being part of the larger whole. The YESHA Arabs regard them as irrelevant anyway, have no intention of carrying out any stipulations, they have never done so, unless it was to their benefit, then just ignored the quid pro quo. Always takers…never givers.

    But, with them being there, Israel has a perfect legal right to sweep them aside because of YESHA Arab non acceptance. But I think Netanyahu wants to wait out the agreed time limit, to make everything legal, but is floating a YESHA “extension of Sovereignty” for election purposes. He likes to keep within legally allowable International agreements. And he has the far greater consideration of the “friendly” Embassy-in Jerusalem stream of Arab and Muslim states. They can see that the YESHA Arabs (in complete disarray) rejected and are ignoring the whole Agreement,, but it doesn’t interfere with their plans to normalise with Israel. This is far more important, and it pushes the so called “Palestinians” back further into a local trivialism by comparison.

    If my post does not answer your questions, please spell them out for me. “Sunset clause” is a term I have never ever, used and may not be getting its correct meaning. Also, I’m getting old, which may be a hindrance to my understanding………????

  8. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    Tes, it was certan that Trump, with his astounding political results, would be theParty Guru.

    Why do they ALWAYS use words for Trump like, “enraged”. I’m sure he wasn’t, that he just saw the flaw, and issued his statement to redirect contributions. Tycoons don’t make decisions whilst “enraged’. This shows how much the denigrating Trump language has seeped into everything.

    As re Kushner, I also saw nothing wrong with his article. I believe that his “praise” of Biden,is really praise of Trump and his policies, and a subtle way of encouraging Biden to carry on with them, (possiblywith BIden coming to think that he, Biden originated them)…

    Regarding thr AWOL(assuming I’m interpreting Ted correctly) I’m sure Kushner was doing things which were not anti-Trump. There were loads of people defending Trump and attacking the stolen results. But it didn’t take long before we all could see, that when the SC refused to hear anything about Election Fraud, that protests in other venues would go nowhere..At least, not in time to make any difference. So he likely diverged to do something else of importance.

    The courts are prsently, slowly, begrudgingly, deciding that election rules were broken after all…. and are fatally slowly ruling in favour of the Repubs. But ALL acknowledge that it makes no difference to THIS election, may only make some difference to 2022, 2024. l

    Which is why very early, I debunked the Simon Parkes-Charlie Ward obviously fraudulent fortune-telling cross-my-palm-with-silver drek….as DREK.

    If Israel extends sovereignty to YESHA it will be only 54 years late, and then, today it will be only partial, when THEN in 1967 it would have been total.

    Imagine, a Land of Israel swept clear of all Arabs. Even if Mudar DOES take over Jordan, this is not a part of his programme, He will take them into Jordan, but only if they want to go. Which means that we will have almost tha status quo. They have to be MADE go…either in these PC times, by inducements, or forgetting PC, threats of force. I believe that threats and a show of assembling a powerful force would be enough to make them scarper. Arabs are like that , thay won’t stand and fight, unless behind strongly fortified positions….and NOT when they can safely retreat to Jordan.

    So we have to wait and see. Sorry to be so wde ranging, but one thing led to another, habit,.

  9. @ Edgar G.:
    Trump is so popular within the Republican party that he will determine Republican positions for some time to come, even out of office. He has gone from king to kingmaker.

    Trump ‘sent cease and desist’ letter to stop RNC from using his name
    Trump was enraged that his name and likeness had been used to raise money for organisations that would then help reelect Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach him…”

    ‘Politico reported that people within the GOP say privately that it’s impossible not to use the Trump name as he’s so popular with the base of the Republican Party. If Mr Trump is serious about winning back control of Congress in 2022, they argue that he needs to be more willing to allow his name and likeness to be used…’
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rnc-cease-desist-letter-b1813442.html

  10. @ Edgar G.:
    Do you think Kushner’s omission of the sunset clauses was accidental? I also just read that the US is now refusing to support Saudi Arabia against the Houthis who have seized oil rich territory belonging to somebody else but the UN says they are on the edge of famine so Saudi Arabia is being pressured to make concessions (where have we heard that before.

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/20/how-to-end-a-war-you-didnt-win-yemens-houthis-seek-saudi-concessions/ )

    On the other hand, Epoch Times also viewed Kushner’s Oped positively. And there really is nothing wrong that I see in it, either, even if it might be somewhat naive in giving Biden the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, could he be trying to build a bridge for some sort of bipartisanship to some extent? He is President Trump’s chief strategist, after all – he also got him elected in 2016 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/?sh=306efae23af6-

    and thinking outside the box is his speciality.

    Jared Kushner Breaks Silence Since Leaving White House
    BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV March 14, 2021 Updated: March 15, 2021biggersmaller Print
    Former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner has made his first public remarks since departing the White House earlier this year, penning an op-ed about the opportunity for peace in the Middle East.

    In the opinion article, titled “Opportunity Beckons in the Mideast” published in The Wall Street Journal on March 14, Kushner argues that the Biden administration would be mistaken not to build on the successes of the Trump administration in the region.

    “Eliminating the ISIS caliphate and bringing about six peace agreements—between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, and Kosovo, plus uniting the Gulf Cooperation Council—has changed the paradigm,” Kushner wrote.

    Kushner was one of four Trump administration officials nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in February for their roles in negotiating four normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations.

    Kushner, who is the husband of Ivanka Trump, a daughter of former President Donald Trump, highlighted the Trump administration’s 2017 state visit to Saudi Arabia. In a speech in Riyadh during that trip, Trump rallied the Arab world against what he argued was a common adversary, radical Islamic extremism and the Iranian regime, the ideology’s biggest sponsor.

    “As the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam, Saudi Arabia has made significant progress in combating extremism, which has greatly reduced America’s risk of attack and created the environment for today’s new partnerships,” Kushner wrote. “In Mr. Trump’s final deal before leaving office, he brokered the end of the diplomatic conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, restoring an important alliance to counter Iran.”

    Kushner hasn’t made any formal public appearances or remarks since departing the White House on Jan. 20. Ivanka Trump made some headlines a week earlier after she was sighted delivering food boxes in Apopka, Florida, as part of the Trump administration’s “Farmers to Families” food box program.

    The former president made his first public appearance since leaving office two weeks ago on Feb. 28, when he delivered a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida.

    Kushner notably praised the Biden administration’s handling of Iran, arguing that President Joe Biden’s existing relationship with the nation’s leadership was an advantage that Trump didn’t have.

    “While many were troubled by the Biden team’s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, I saw it as a smart diplomatic move,” Kushner wrote. “The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff. It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future. When Iran asked for a reward merely for initiating negotiations, President Biden did the right thing and refused.”

    Kushner, who led Trump’s efforts for peace in the Middle East, said the Biden administration would do well to take a patient approach with Iran because the nation is in a tight financial squeeze due to the sanctions imposed by Trump.

    “Iran is feigning strength, but its economic situation is dire and it has no ability to sustain conflict or survive indefinitely under current sanctions,” Kushner wrote. “America should be patient and insist that any deal include real nuclear inspections and an end to Iran’s funding of foreign militias.”

    He said the Biden administration stands to make progress by following the roadmap of the previous administration, pointing out that the Arab world is already starting to thrive since nations are no longer boycotting Israel. He noted that Oman, Qatar, and Mauritania are on the brink of joining the Abraham Accords.

    “These relationships should be pursued aggressively—every deal is a blow to those who prefer chaos,” Kushner wrote.

    The former White House adviser underlined that the most important relationship that has seen improvement is the one between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The relations could be normalized if the “Biden administration leads,” Kushner wrote.

    “The table is set,” he wrote in conclusion. “If it is smart, the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East’s potential, keep America safe, and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability. It is time to begin a new chapter of partnership, prosperity and peace.”

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    https://www.theepochtimes.com/jared-kushner-breaks-silence-after-leaving-white-house_3733102.html

  11. @ Ted Belman:
    Thank you Ted for pointing out Jared AWOL, Eric fighting for his father. After Trump took heat for pardoning Jared’s father! Self-serving disloyalty. Shameful. Thanks for Ray diLorenzo today. Excellent analysis. Unfortunately people’s minds are firmly shut (LA, CA). I finally realize that the email articles I forward ARE NOT OPENED SO NOT READ. I have to look to the internet to find those who share my views/values. On another note: I don’t anticipate ever visiting Israel again due to vaxzine mandate. It is astounding that NWO/great reset will accomplish what hytler could not. Here, drs fired for promoting hydroxychl…, factory for making it bombed in 12/2020. Fake death statistics to ramp up fear porn. Just watch gates videos if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

  12. @ Michael S:

    This time anyway…
    Caesar was only the family name of Julius. Octavian was the first emperor not Julius, and I think his grandfather was either a brother or cousin of Julius. Julius adopted him, and left him the control of Rome, Tiberius was also a pseudo Caesar, Octavian having married his mother Livia. She had a great name as a poisoner, lived to be about 85. Everyone was afraid of her. “I Claudius”, followed by “Claudius the GoD”… by Robert Graves, are historical novels all about the whole period, and are well worth reading.

    Tiberius always reminded me in some way of Lyndon Johnson. Caligula was also adopted into the family and so it went. There was really only one original Caesar, who was Julius.

    It’s also all described by Seutonius in his “12 Caesars”.

    As for Kushner, I didn’t follow him as closely as you, so take your word for it. I still say that whatever he did was because of the drive and determination of Trump, who at least mapped out an outline for him to follow.

    On another disconnected point, rhetorically, why is it that no one asks where the career low-salaried politican Biden got the money to buy that $47 mill estate recently . On another point it has occurred to me that Biden’s new tax on those earning over $400,000 was put into his “mind” because his own Presidential salary is exactly $400.000. So he naturally is greedy to deprive those who earn more.. . (because of his mental disability he has forgotten about all the grafted millions he’s pocketed.)

    That’s all from me…..except that Caligula was crazy yes, but Nero wasn’t. In fact he was an “O.K” emperor much of his reign, crazy about the Arts, and narcissistic, and vey popular with the people. Those he taxed heavily, the rich, hated him and eventually brought his dow Hnfall He knocked off a few enemies here and there, but that was the common pracice of the times. Evn Claudius, harmless and scholarly, did the same thing- when he got into his stride.

  13. @ Michael S:

    This time anyway…
    Caesar was only the family name of Julius. Octavian was the first emperor not Julius, and I think his grandfather was either a brother or cousin of Julius. Julius adopted him, and left him the control of Rome, Tiberius was also a pseudo Caesar, Octavian having married his mother Livia. She had a great name as a poisoner, lived to be about 85. Everyone was afraid of her. “I Claudius”, followed by “Claudius the GoD”… by Robert Graves, are historical novels all about the whole period, and are well worth reading.

    Tiberius always reminded me in some way of Lyndon Johnson. Caligula was also adopted into the family and so it went. There was really only one original Caesar, who was Julius.

    It’s also all described by Seutonius in his “12 Caesars”.

    As for Kushner, I didn’t follow him as closely as you, so take your word for it. I still say that whatever he did was because of the drive and determination of Trump, who at least mapped out an outline for him to follow.

    On another disconnected point, rhetorically, why is it that no one asks where the career low-salaried politican Biden got the money to buy that $47 mill estate recently . On another point it has occurred to me that Biden’s new tax on those earning over $400,000 was put into his “mind” because his own Presidential salary is exactly $400.000. So he naturally is greedy to deprive those who earn more.. . (because of his mental disability he has forgotten about all the grafted millions he’s pocketed.)

    That’s all from me.

  14. @ Edgar G.:
    Edgar,

    I am not trying to dog you here; I just feel a great check in your confidence in Kushner (“mirrored”, as you say, by Ted’s). The young man displays outstanding qualities — particularly his ability to read people to find out what they each want, and bring them to agreement. He also is flat-out fearsome in the ferocity of his personal vengeance (Ask Chris Christie). I have to qualify what I said about “filial piety”; because he certainly did perform his duty to his father to a fanatical degree — to the point of dedicating himself to prison reform because of his father’s experience. But I don’t see any warmth in the man; only scheming tension. In President Trump, I saw great capability, tempered with real empathy and morality. In Kushner, I only see capability — perhaps even more than his father-in-law’s.

    We live in such an exceptional age, that we have created an office of “POTUS” that is so enormous, so powerful, so hegemonic in its very nature, that only the most exceptional people are able to control it without it controlling them. It is like the office of the Roman Caesars — who were so wealthy and powerful, they had more sway than all the senators and equestrians put together. The occupants of that office ranged from terrible but capable (Caesar and Octavian), grading into unrestrained lunacy (Caligula and Nero). It’s the office itself which is the most terrifying monster mankind has ever witnessed. That’s what gives me the bajeebers.

  15. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    I think Phillips is wrong. She has shown weakness of observation several times over the last year or so that I noticed, and perhaps longer. She is allowing personal prejudices to become more evident in her articles.

    Ot so it seems to me. I saw Ted’s post about Kushner and It almost mirrors what I thought when I read it. I don’t know anything about him going AWOL, unless what is meant that he was not prominent in denouncing Biden and defending Trump in the aftermath of the stolen election. I personally didn’t pay muh attention to Kushner at any time, except during the nengotiations with thr Arabs, and I felt that it was Trump’s push which made it all possible.

    By the way, the whole, highlighted article is far more than the supposedly allowable maximum f o400 words, which Ted recently posted.. Unless what was meant was 400 words written by the poster.

  16. On the other hand, another spin. She did read the article. I dunno. Depends on how it plays out, I suppose, to see if he was right or just being opportunist as Philips claims. I suspect she’s being a little too harsh, but I’m not sure.

    Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart
    With the Biden administration having re-empowered Palestinian aggressors against Israel, Kushner has shown that he doesn’t grasp the significance of what he helped achieve with the Abraham Accords. Op-ed.
    Tags: Jared Kushner Joe Biden Melanie Phillips
    Melanie Phillips , Mar 19 , 2021 9:06 AM
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    Netanyahu, Kushner meet in Jerusalem, August 24th, 2017
    Netanyahu, Kushner meet in Jerusalem, August 24th, 2017FLASH90

    (JNS) Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, was a senior foreign-policy adviser in the Trump administration. Now an op-ed by Kushner published in The Wall Street Journal has caused jaws to drop.

    Kushner was a key mover behind the Abraham Accords between Israel and the Gulf States. This agreement, brokered by Trump, was the most significant move towards peace in the Middle East for the best part of a century.

    In parallel, Trump’s U.S. withdrawal in May 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, coupled with the reimposition of sanctions and more severe ones later added, was gradually bringing the fanatical and genocidal Iranian regime to its knees.

    Since President Joe Biden took office, however, there’s been mounting alarm that his administration is re-empowering Iran, dumping on Israel and undermining the newly birthed alliance between Israel and its former foes in the Arab world.

    On Iran, the Biden administration has declared its intention to rejoin the nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. This effectively gave a green light to an Iranian nuclear bomb with only a few years’ delay. It also funneled billions of dollars into Iran’s coffers, enabling it to ramp up its regional power grab, and pursue terrorism and wars by proxy in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and Yemen.

    Attempting to bathe his opinions about Iran in the reflected glory of the Abraham Accords, his op-ed can only be read as a shallow, unprincipled and disloyal job application to the Biden administration.
    Restarting this deal would be a disaster. Yet Kushner’s article was a paean of praise to Biden for his approach. He wrote approvingly of the Biden team’s “relationship” with Iran, and said the American offer to rejoin the deal was “a smart diplomatic move.”

    By the “relationship” with Iran, he presumably meant that some of the key players behind that deal, including the U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, are now in the Biden administration.

    But forming a relationship with a regime that has waged a four-decade war against America is inescapably an act of appeasement.

    While officials such as Blinken pretended that the 2015 deal would bring Iran into the family of nations, its leaders recognized this as a weakness they could exploit. They understood that the Americans were so desperate to pretend they had tamed Iran that they would even present as a triumph a deal that actually green-lighted the Iranian bomb and would funnel billions into a genocidal rogue state, which America itself regarded as the greatest terrorist threat in the world.

    So it was. And now the same officials are intent on repeating the same lethally craven exercise.

    Although Blinken has said America won’t enter negotiations or lift sanctions against Iran until it comes back into compliance, many take this with a pinch of salt from an administration that’s clearly gagging to make nice with the regime once again.

    Yet according to Kushner, Biden’s offer to Iran called its bluff when America refused its demand to be rewarded for initiating negotiations. This, said Kushner, revealed to the Europeans that the 2015 deal was dead.

    But the Europeans recognized no such thing. On the contrary, they tried to broker negotiations between America and Iran—only to get slapped down contemptuously by the regime, which repeated its demand that Washington lift sanctions first.

    A “smart diplomatic move”? More like a national humiliation.

    Smelling exactly the same weakness by many of the very same people, an emboldened Iran has shown its contempt for America by increasing terrorist attacks in the Middle East and stepping up its progress to a nuclear bomb.

    Last year, Iran was enriching uranium to 4.5 percent, breaching the 2015 deal’s limit of 3.67 percent. As soon as Biden took office, however, Tehran started enriching uranium to 20 percent, which, according to John Hannah of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, represents 90 percent of the work required to produce weapons-grade material.

    The more Biden reaches out to Iran, the more Iran attacks American assets. Last month, Blinken announced that the United States would no longer designate the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group, signaling that it now backed Iran against America’s Saudi Arabian ally that is fighting Iran in Yemen. Two days later, the Houthis launched drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities.

    Last month, Iran attacked a U.S. base in northern Iraq, killing an American contractor and wounding several other civilians. The American military wanted to respond by attacking Iranian assets in Iraq, but this was vetoed by Biden.

    Instead, the United States launched an attack on Iran-backed Shi’ite militias in northern Syria, in which no Iranians were killed.

    This may have been because the United States notified the Russians about their attack plans in advance and the Russians promptly tipped off the Iranians. Or it may have been because these Iran-backed militias were non-Iranian Shi’ites—meaning there weren’t any Iranians there anyway. Either way, it was no more than a limp-wristed gesture.

    As Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Ashraq Al-Awsat, has written: “In Tehran’s eyes, Biden is a pushover.” In addition to Iranian attacks in Yemen and Iraq, he wrote, “Lokman Slim, Iran’s most prominent and vocal opponent in Beirut, was murdered and his body was found on the sidewalk.”

    Appallingly, Biden is turning the United States into a laughing stock in Tehran. Yet Kushner wrote: “Thanks to his policies, America holds a strong hand.”

    In his article, Kushner boasted about the Abraham Accords. Yet even here, his choice of words revealed an astonishing ignorance. For while he rightly observed that this agreement had destroyed the “myth” that ending the Arab-Israel “conflict” depended upon Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences, he went on to say: “The Abraham Accords exposed the conflict as nothing more than a real-estate dispute between Israelis and Palestinians that need not hold up Israel’s relations with the broader Arab world.”

    “A real-estate dispute”? But the “conflict” was a war by the Arab world against Israel’s very existence. Its presentation as a “real-estate dispute” is what’s been the actual myth.

    That, indeed, was the fiction promoted by the Palestinians to gull the West into believing that a Palestinian state would solve the conflict. This propaganda achievement, which has fueled the West’s animus against Israel, evilly repackaged the Arab war of extermination against Israel as a Palestinian struggle for land.

    This was the delusion that enabled the Palestinians to play the West for suckers by holding out for a land-based compromise to which they had no intention of agreeing.

    It was this myth that was shattered by the Abraham Accords. At a stroke, the Palestinian cause became irrelevant, and the Palestinians’ principal weapon in their diplomatic war against Israel was rendered useless.

    Yet Biden has now brought the Palestinians back in from the cold. He has re-established diplomatic relations and restored their funding, turning a blind eye to the ways in which that money helps promote terrorism against Israel.

    He has thus re-empowered the Palestinian aggressors against Israel and undermined one of the signal achievements of the Abraham Accords. Kushner has shown that he doesn’t even understand the significance of what he himself helped achieve.

    Although his article praised Trump for the breakthrough in Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, he was effectively praising himself. Attempting to bathe his opinions about Iran in the reflected glory of the Abraham Accords, his op-ed can only be read as a shallow, unprincipled and disloyal job application to the Biden administration.

    The threat posed by the Iranian regime, both to the world and the suffering people of Iran, can only be removed if the regime is removed. Frighteningly, Biden has reversed the progress being made to that end.

    Instead, he has strengthened Tehran and enfeebled America. And now, Jared Kushner has become his cheerleader. What a betrayal.

    Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy.” Go to melaniephillips.substack.com to access her work.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/298820

  17. I don’t trust Kushner as far as I can throw him.

    Ted:

    “He bypasses the issue of whether Biden’s focus on China is meant to partner with it or to confront it as Trump was wont to do.”

    Biden plans to kowtow, and to stuff his pockets with Yuan along the way. As for Jared, he has all the filial piety of a European noble (i.e., “none”)

  18. I reread Kushner’s article. I see nothing wrong in his remarks. He upheld Trump’s accomplishments and advised Biden to follow in his footsteps.

    But he also gave Biden the benefit of the doubt.

    “The Biden administration is making China a priority in its foreign policy, and rightly so—one of Mr. Trump’s greatest legacies will be changing the world’s view of China’s behavior. But it would be a mistake not to build on the progress in the Middle East. Eliminating the ISIS caliphate and bringing about six peace agreements—between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and Kosovo, plus uniting the Gulf Cooperation Council—has changed the paradigm.”

    He bypasses the issue of whether Biden’s focus on China is meant to partner with it or to confront it as Trump was wont to do.

    While many were troubled by the Biden team’s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, I saw it as a smart diplomatic move. The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff. It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future.

    I have a different view. Iran’s aggressiveness forced Biden to take a stronger stance.

    All of which begs the question. Why was Kushner AWOL?

  20. I don’t have any problem with what he wrote. I’d be surprised if any of you will either. Here it is:

    Opportunity Beckons in the Mideast
    The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff early. It should continue to play the strong hand it was dealt.
    By Jared Kushner
    March 14, 2021 3:35 pm ET

    The geopolitical earthquake that began with the Abraham Accords hasn’t ended. More than 130,000 Israelis have visited Dubai since President Trump hosted the peace deal’s signing this past September, and air travel opened up for the first time in August. New, friendly relations are flowering—wait until direct flights get going between Israel and Morocco. We are witnessing the last vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict.

    The conflict’s roots stretch back to the years after World War II, when Arab leaders refused to accept the creation of the state of Israel and spent 70 years vilifying it and using it to divert attention from domestic shortcomings. But as more Muslims visit Israel through Dubai, images are populating on social media of Jews and Muslims proudly standing together. More important, Muslims are posting pictures of peaceful visits to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, blowing a hole in the propaganda that the holy site is under attack and Israelis prevent Muslims from praying there. Every time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweets something positive in Arabic about an Arab leader, it reinforces that Israel is rooting for the success of the Arab world.

    One of the reasons the Arab-Israeli conflict persisted for so long was the myth that it could be solved only after Israel and the Palestinians resolved their differences. That was never true. The Abraham Accords exposed the conflict as nothing more than a real-estate dispute between Israelis and Palestinians that need not hold up Israel’s relations with the broader Arab world. It will ultimately be resolved when both sides agree on an arbitrary boundary line.

    The Biden administration is making China a priority in its foreign policy, and rightly so—one of Mr. Trump’s greatest legacies will be changing the world’s view of China’s behavior. But it would be a mistake not to build on the progress in the Middle East. Eliminating the ISIS caliphate and bringing about six peace agreements—between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and Kosovo, plus uniting the Gulf Cooperation Council—has changed the paradigm.

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    During his 2017 visit to Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump called on Muslim-majority countries to root out extremist ideology. As the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam, Saudi Arabia has made significant progress in combating extremism, which has greatly reduced America’s risk of attack and created the environment for today’s new partnerships. In Mr. Trump’s final deal before leaving office, he brokered the end of the diplomatic conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, restoring an important alliance to counter Iran.

    The Biden administration, however, has one asset that the Trump administration never had—a relationship with Iran. While many were troubled by the Biden team’s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, I saw it as a smart diplomatic move. The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff. It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future. When Iran asked for a reward merely for initiating negotiations, President Biden did the right thing and refused.

    Mr. Trump has said that Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation. This negotiation is high-stakes and, thanks to his policies, America holds a strong hand. Iran is feigning strength, but its economic situation is dire and it has no ability to sustain conflict or survive indefinitely under current sanctions. America should be patient and insist that any deal include real nuclear inspections and an end to Iran’s funding of foreign militias.

    If the threat from Iran decreases, so can the region’s military budgets. Imagine how many lives could be improved if that money, an outsize share of gross domestic product, were invested in infrastructure, education, small business and impoverished communities.

    Following the new road map will prevent the Biden administration from repeating the mistakes of the past and unlock opportunities for U.S. businesses. On Friday the U.A.E. announced a $10 billion fund to invest in Israel; the Arab world is no longer boycotting the Jewish state but betting that it will thrive. There are also several more countries on the brink of joining the Abraham Accords, including Oman, Qatar and Mauritania. These relationships should be pursued aggressively—every deal is a blow to those who prefer chaos.

    Most important, normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel is in sight. The kingdom dipped a toe in the water by granting overflight rights to Israel and, most recently, allowing an Israeli racing team to participate in the Dakar Rally. The Saudi people are starting to see that Israel is not their enemy. Relations with Israel are in the Saudi national interest and can be achieved if the Biden administration leads.

    I was touched when I read in the Associated Press of a Jewish man who said he felt more comfortable wearing a yarmulke in Dubai than in France. The estrangement between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East over the past 70 years is not the norm. As Jews and Muslims now travel more freely through the region, they return to the tradition of ages past, when members of the Abrahamic faiths lived peacefully side by side.

    The table is set. If it is smart, the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East’s potential, keep America safe, and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability. It is time to begin a new chapter of partnership, prosperity and peace.

    Mr. Kushner was a senior adviser to President Trump.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/opportunity-beckons-in-the-mideast-11615750526

  21. I appreciate all your comments. When I posted this video, I asked “Is it fair criticism?”

    The evidence she cites from his article could have a different interpretation.

    There have been rumours circulating that Trump and Kushner are at odds.

    And one thing we know for sure is that Kushner abandoned the ship as it was going down. He did not fight for Trump like Eric did. Kushner should have been on the front lines . Unfortunately he was AWOL.