The Gaping Hole In Jared Kushner S Peace Plan Opinion
But the plan avoids addressing key obstacles to economic development: the closure of Gaza and, in the West Bank, Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international humanitarian law, and a two-tiered discriminatory system that treats Palestinians and the settlers separately and unequally. The lack of economic growth is not just a byproduct of these abuses, but the result of deliberate Israeli policies. When Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, it cut the territories off from their previous trading partners....