In Private, Pompeo Described Kushner Middle East Peace Plan As ‘Unexecutable’

BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 31: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) give statements to the media prior to talks at the Chancellery on May 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Pomp... BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 31: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) give statements to the media prior to talks at the Chancellery on May 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Pompeo also met with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas earlier in the day. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is less than enthusiastic about President Trump’s son-in-law’s Middle East peace plan.

During a private, off the record meeting with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations last week, Pompeo described Jared Kushner’s proposal as “unexecutable” (sic) and criticized how long it’s taken for the plan to come together, according to the Washington Post.

“This has taken us longer to roll out our plan than I had originally thought it might — to put it lightly,” he said, according to a recording of the discussion obtained by the Post.

Pompeo also raised the prospect of the deal being rejected outright, but said he hoped that wouldn’t be the case. He told the group of Jewish leaders there would be “no guarantees that we’re the ones that unlock it.”

“It may be rejected. Could be in the end, folks will say, ‘It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t particularly work for me,’ that is, ‘It’s got two good things and nine bad things, I’m out,’ ” he reportedly said.

The comments are a far cry from the “deal of the century” rhetoric Trump has adopted to discuss his son-in-law’s efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The administration has taken significant actions since Trump announced his intention of solving the conflict, primarily steps that benefit Israel over Palestinians.

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  1. You mean Jared Kushner is an empty suit?? Golly!

  2. Geez, I am learning all kinds of surprising and unexpected stuff today…

    :smirk:

  3. Kushner: I was involved in it, but I still don’t understand what you’re talking about.

  4. They all know Jared is a lightweight and his entire Mid-East policy essentially boils down to…give Israel everything it wants, ignore all illegal settlement activity and deny Palestinian rights wherever possible. It also involves sucking up to the Saudis through MBS to get them to back off any criticism of Israel by making deals, including illegal sales of arms without Congressional approval and ignoring their human rights abuses, which are massive. The idiocy of using Saudi Arabia to foment a potential war with Iran is another sketchy and poorly formed plan in Jared’s portfolio without any forethought about the consequences of those actions.

    Knowing all this, these toads in this maladministration will still pretend to string him along, praise his plans in public as if everything Jared is doing is golden because they don’t want to upset Dear Leader. Obviously what they say behind their backs has already started to leak out. The place has become of sieve of leaks by disgruntled and ineffective suckups that couldn’t plan a two car parade if their life depended on it.

  5. Jared Kushner, International Man of Charlatanry

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