WHY THE KUSHNER PEACE PLAN FOR PALESTINE IS A NON-STARTER

Kushner thinks as an imperialist. Give them bread shall make them happy. He believes that improving the Palestinian economy is tantamount to fulfilling Palestinian national aspirations. That is 18th century road map to disaster.

People's sovereignty is not a commodity. Least of all, solving its challenges is not akin to a real estate 
deal. One of the reasons for that is that it is not negotiable. Kushner's circle, including Mohammed Bin 
Salman, are not aware of a primary ingredient: Sovereignty is two things: A birth right, and is inalienable. 
As a birth right, it cannot be bargainable. As an inalienable right, it is like a limb of your body. It cannot 
be torn away except in a terror chamber. None of these principles is penetrable into the iron-clad skulls 
of the likes of Jared Kushner. For the Kushners, deal-making is a second faith. This is probably the 
reason for their multiple bankruptcies. 
Jared and his Ivanka may prance around the Middle East as often as they wish. Memoranda of 
understanding might even be signed. Sword dances may be performed. But the Palestinian Street 
where sovereignty lives is absent. Bin Salman has no sway over it. His financial gifts disappear in the 
deep pockets of the so-called leadership. And that street shall never sign on its death certificate. For 
that street knows that Israeli occupation, beyond the green line, shall surely end one day. And that the 
decrepit and corrupt Palestinian leadership shall also be gone sooner or later. In both Ramullah and 
Gaza. 
So Kushner is playing a game whose time has expired. That game has lasted for nearly 300 years 
during which people looked upon the palaces of their leaders as foreign fortresses. Built on the sand 
of expediency, internal terror, bribery, and propaganda . 
The Kushner tools are rusty. Their shelf life has expired. Prolonging it by moving the embassy to 
Jerusalem is no more than a noisy cocktail party. Peopled by kids whose bed time is over due. 

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