Kushner Claims Palestinians Should Tell Where They Want to Draw the Lines, Says Settlements to Stay

By Staff, Agencies

US President Donald Trump’s Senior Advisor Jared Kushner shamelessly claimed that the Palestinian [landowners] are welcome to offer changes in the borders in America’s proposed plan. However, all existing ‘Israeli’ settlements are not going anywhere, he added.

“What the Palestinian leadership should do is they should engage [Trump’s plan]. If there are things they want to change, if they don’t like where we drew the lines [they should] come and tell us where they want to draw the lines,” Kushner told Egyptian journalist Amr Adib in an interview on the El-Hekaya news show on Saturday.

He also claimed that Palestinians should accept the proposed plan as groundwork for further talks if they want to be “realistic.”

At the same time, one of the chief architects of Trump’s plan and his son-in-law reiterated that the illegal ‘Israeli’ settlements in the occupied West Bank, which were called by the UN Security Council “a major obstacle” to lasting 'peace', will remain in place.

Unveiled earlier this week, Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ calls for the creation of an independent Palestinian state with its capital set in the outskirts of East al-Quds, currently controlled by the ‘Israeli’ occupation regime. However, it offers only a four-year freeze on new ‘Israeli’ settlements in the occupied West Bank, while the existing ones remain intact. The plan also rules out the rightful return of all Palestinian refugees, which is one of the key demands of the Palestinian officials.