Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner said he would announce next week the next steps the US administration intends to take following its economic conference in Bahrain.
“We will be announcing probably next week what our next steps will be and we will keep pushing forward. We want to take the feedback on the economic plan incorporate it finalize it.” Kushner said on a conference call with reporters a week after holding the workshop in Bahrain.
Kushner known for not having commons sense or political experience also offered a mix of praise and contempt for the Palestinian leadership on Wednesday.
Kushner said the decision of Palestinian leadership to boycott the Manama meeting had been “hysterical and erratic and not terribly constructive.”
“The Palestinian leadership has made a strategic mistake by not engaging on this; they look very foolish for trying to fight against this” he said.
But asked to speak specifically about Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas the White House official seemed self-contradictory.
“I have a lot of respect for president Abbas” he said. “He has devoted his life to trying to make peace.”
Kushner said his sentiments about Abbas were shared by his father-in-law Donald Trump.
“President Trump is very fond of president Abbas. He likes him very much personally.”
“Our door is always open to the Palestinian leadership” he added.
