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Kushner: The architect of Trump’s Peace to Prosperity Plan behind the UAE Deal
President Trump’s Abraham Accord could be a political disaster for him. We pray that it won’t be. This also continues the narrative of some that the land of Israel is for all descendants of Abraham, as the ELCA church and others have contended over the years.
Just as we were making great inroads with the San Remo Resolution in Israel through the Netanyahu government and at the White House and State Department (details below from Ambassador Friedman Briefing to US Faith Leaders on “Peace to Prosperity” Plan – July 27, 2020), Jared Kushner pushed through his normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE.
I was given a heads-up by a friend (who has been sending our information to the Netanyahu government) that a normalization agreement was near completion with the UAE, but the rather rushed White House event was a surprise. President Trump said that an agreement should be officially signed in three weeks at the White House.
The main U.S. mediators for the agreement were Jared Kushner; special Mideast envoy, Avi Berkowitz; special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook; and David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Jared Kushner was planning for this to be big political news. The Trump campaign (Kushner is overseeing the campaign and the Covid 19 response) hasn’t had any significant good news since the Covid 19 pandemic hit the U.S.
Unfortunately, this plan suspends extended sovereignty efforts for 132 communities and as mentioned continues the Palestinian state narrative via the UN Resolutions and Arab Initiative.
Moreover, the Abraham Accord also calls for peace talks that brings the Arabs back in the mix over God’s covenant land. This is not good. Kushner wanted to help President Trump politically, but the consequences of this could be much more costly than the benefit.
The following news chronology occurred while the Kushner team was finalizing the planned Thursday announcement. Ambassador David Friedman’s chief of staff Aryeh Lightstone was to be on the Genesis 123 call from Jerusalem on Tuesday but cancelled Monday saying he had been summoned to the White House for meetings with Jared Kushner.
Putting this into perspective, as the heartland of Israel was once again being dealt with, the heartland of the U.S. was being devastated by a 100-mph derecho that destroyed 10 million acres in Iowa. On Thursday, just after President Trump made his announcement, there were four news items on mail-in voting that could jeopardize his re-election.