Jared Kushner, the former senior aide and current son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, offered praise for President Biden’s foreign policy.
Kushner, whose time in the White House included a heavy focus on Middle East relations, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Sunday celebrating the Trump administration’s victories as well as offering support to the current administration. He urged the Biden administration to continue on the path he worked to pave.
TRUMP’S UNPRECEDENTED MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY LED TO THE HISTORIC ABRAHAM ACCORDS
During the final months of the Trump administration, Israel and six different countries, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, and Kosovo, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, signed peace agreements called the Abraham Accords. In a reference to those agreements, which he said “has changed the paradigm,” Kushner claimed, “It would be a mistake not to build on the progress in the Middle East.”
“The table is set,” he wrote. “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.”
Kushner noted Biden’s offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, left some critics “troubled,” but said that he “saw it as a smart diplomatic move,” because it “revealed to the Europeans that the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future.”
He also claimed that the deals between Israel and the various Arab countries show that the peace between them is not necessarily contingent upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“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,” Kushner wrote. “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.”
He said the "most important" aspect is the potential for normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, saying it "is in sight."
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Earlier this year, Kushner and Avi Berkowitz, the former Middle East envoy, were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for their work related to the Abraham Accords. The recipients of this year's Nobel Peace Prizes will be announced in October.
