The president's son-in-law has no experience in world politics and clearly no interest in upholding international law or the universality of human rights.
From the beginning, it appeared farcical that a group of ideologically driven men with personal ties to the U.S. president and Israel, no experience in world politics and no interest in international law or the universality of human rights could deliver peace to the Middle East.
Kushner was on the board of a foundation that supported and funded the Israeli army. His family's charitable organization regularly funds construction in the illegal Israeli Beit El settlement near Ramallah in the West Bank, while the current U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was the head of an organization called American Friends of Beit El.
Trump's"peace team" is seemingly stuck in the colonial era, when the subjugation of other peoples was justified by the racist claim that they were incapable of governing themselves, should be grateful for their masters' handouts and needed to prove they deserved freedom and human rights. Kushner's interview responses are an extension of the Trump administration's policies over the past two years. The unilateral and illegal decision to recognize Israel's illegitimate annexation of Jerusalem was just the first in a series of hostile and irresponsible political and financial decisions—aimed not at achieving peace but at pummeling the Palestinians into submission and capitulation.
Presidential adviser Jared Kushner looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump announces a new immigration proposal in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 16. President Donald Trump's"peace team," Hanan Ashrawi writes, is seemingly stuck in the colonial era.
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