Palestinian President Abbas is upset Kushner wanted concessions from him as well

Here’s something we never heard during the anti-Israel Obama administration, world began to filter out over the weekend that after meeting with Jared Kushner in Ramallah last week an angry Palestinian President Abbas, not used to a U.S. presidency making demands of the Palestinian side, accused the American delegation of favoring Israel instead of being a fair moderator. Poor Palestinian President Abbas. After eight years of Obama not asking him to make the even basic concessions to Israel, compromise has become such a foreign concept to him that when he met with the American delegation last week and was asked to stop inciting terror he got angry and accused them of siding with the Israelis.

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Jared Kushner, senior adviser and presidential son-in-law to President Donald Trump, and Jason Greenblatt, the president’s special representative for international negotiations, visited Jerusalem and Ramallah last Wednesday to begin the peace process Trump called for during his trip to the region a month ago.

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