US plan will not follow lines of Arab Peace Initiative, Kushner says
Ahead of Bahrain meeting, US adviser says proposal will fall somewhere between historic 2002 offer and Israeli stance
A US proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace will not follow the contours of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said in comments published Monday, offering a rare glimpse of the political side of the administration’s yet-to-be-released peace plan.
“I think we all have to recognize that if there ever is a deal, it’s not going to be along the lines of the Arab peace initiative,” Kushner told Qatari network al-Jazeera. “It will be somewhere between the Arab peace initiative and between the Israeli position.”
The comments, published hours before Kushner is set to open a controversial economic workshop in Bahrain that has drawn only middling support from most Arab states, would mark a sharp departure from what many view as the outline of a future Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
First proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, the initiative calls for full normalization with Israel across the Arab world in exchange for a Palestinian state on the whole of the West Bank and Gaza — with agreed upon land swaps — and East Jerusalem as its capital. It also calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, territory Syria claims, and which the US recognized Israeli sovereignty over earlier this year.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-plan-will-not-follow-lines-of-arab-peace-initiative-kushner-says/