“Opportunity of the century”?
“The White House … outlined a $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighboring Arab state economies, and fund a $5 billion transportation corridor to connect the West Bank and Gaza,” Reuters reports.
- “The ‘peace to prosperity’ plan, set to be presented by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at an international conference in Bahrain [this] week, includes 179 infrastructure and business projects.”
- “I laughwhen they attack this as the ‘Deal of the Century,'” Kushner told Reuters about Palestinian leaders who have dismissed his plan.”This is going to be the Opportunity of the Century.'”
What’s next … Barak Ravid of Israel’s Channel 13 writes for Axios: White House officials stressed that the economic plan is only the beginning and the political part of the plan will be released in the future.
- Go deeper:Barak details the plan.
Πηγή: axios.com
