The presidentâs son-in-law, Mr. Kushner, runs a private equity firm called Affinity Partners that has raised $4.5 billion, mostly from sovereign wealth funds of the oil-rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, based on relationships he built as an adviser to Mr. Trump during his first term.
Mr. Kushner, who has said he does not plan to return to the White House, also has invested in at least two Israel-based businesses: Phoenix Holdings, an insuranceâcompany, and the car leasing division of Shlomo Holdings.
Mr. Kushnerâs business partner at Shlomo Holdings is also a partial owner of Israelâs only domestic builder of warships. That puts him in business with executives who are also major shareholders in an Israeli military contractor whose vessels have been used in the war in Gaza, armed with American-made weapons.
It was Mr. Kushner who last year first floated the idea of considering Gaza as a potential real-estate development site. âGazaâs waterfront property could be very valuable,â Mr. Kushner said last year during an event sponsored by Harvardâs Kennedy School of Government, suggesting that Israel âmove the people out and then clean it up.â
Donnie's rancid cherry on top of the sh*^ sundae: tariff-induced inflation is not followed by nominal wage growth as is the case with most other sources of inflation.
R_P: "But Biden promotes genocide, they are all the same" I suppose
The U.S. appears to be pushing for more ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Will it succeed? Donald Trump has brought back a plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza that was pushed by the Biden administration and the Israeli far right. Although these plans have been rebuffed so far, there are signs Trump might be more successful.
"Putting in a goat" seems plausible. He also may be trying to distract people from Musk's takeover of the federal government.
I think that's absolutely what TFG's strategy has always been, including ludicrous offers at the beginning so that settling on an agreement is immediately skewed toward what he really wanted.
"I'll offer you $1m for it"
"But it's worth $50m !"
"OK, we'll split the difference. It's a deal."
"On the day that I will see American soldiers coming in great numbers to Gaza, I will then make up my mind how serious it is," former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told NPR. "Every party involved except for Israel is completely against it."
"It is utterly unrealistic, and it reflects a total lack of understanding of the historical process of where these Palestinians come from, what is their collective identity," former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told NPR. "âIt's somebody that came from the outer space and tries to impose a solution which is, you know, detached from a context."
Israeli observers have suggested Trump could be using a negotiating tactic known in Israel as "putting in a goat" â laying down a demand for the purpose of removing it later and appearing to have granted a concession.
"âIt's somebody that came from the outer space and tries to impose a solution which is, you know, detached from a context."
Senility makes a person think and say all sorts of nutty things.
"Putting in a goat" seems plausible. He also may be trying to distract people from Musk's takeover of the federal government.
