The Kushner Family Could Be Getting Very Rich Thanks to the Coronavirus

The Kushner family’s ties to for-profit healthcare companies underscore the myriad of conflicts of interests that billionaire businessmen have, making them particularly unsuited to holding public office.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Jared Kushner Coronavirus Feature

Covid-19 might be decimating the economy and threatening to kill millions of Americans, but in crisis there is opportunity. Opportunity, specifically for Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared, son-in-law and senior advisor to President Donald Trump. Joshua is the co-founder of Oscar Health, a huge medical company that this week launched a test center

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French Ambassador Says Trump “Deal of the Century” Is DOA, Calls Israel ‘Apartheid State’

“[Kushner] is so rational, and he is so pro-Israeli also, that he may neglect the point that if you offer the Palestinians the choice between surrendering and committing suicide, they may decide the latter. Somebody like Kushner doesn’t understand that.” — French Ambassador Gerard Araud

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Gerard Araud

WASHINGTON -- In an interview with the Atlantic last Friday, outgoing French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud made headlines after emphatically stating that Israel is already “an apartheid state” and that the Trump administration’s so-called “Deal of the Century” aimed at resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict is “99 percent

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Did the Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Jeff Bezos for Nude Photos?

Juan Cole breaks down the sordid web of ties between Saudi hackers, Jamal Khashoggi and Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
Mohammed bin Salman | Khashoggi

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ security team has alleged in The Daily Beast that Saudi Arabian intelligence hacked his phone and passed to the National Enquirer intimate photos that the married Bezos had sent to his lover, Lauren Sanchez. Although the Enquirer’s parent company, AMI, has alleged that it received the material from Sanchez’s brother, this

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Israel Asked US to Stand by Saudi Arabia After Khashoggi Murder

Israeli-Saudi relations have flourished under Bin Salman, with the crown prince openly supporting Israel’s narrative.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
Trump Kushner Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States to stand by Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi The revelation was made by the Washington Post yesterday, citing information from US officials familiar with a series of telephone conversations made to Jared Kushner –

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Kushner’s “Ultimate Deal” Would Strip Palestinians of Their Human Dignity

After three Arab-Israeli wars, tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and millions of refugees, does Jared Kushner really believe that the Palestinians will settle for cash?

Robert Fisk
By Robert Fisk
Israeli police detain a Palestinian boy outside the Lion's Gate near the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, July 23, 2017. Ariel Schalit | AP

Is there no humiliation left for the Palestinians? After Oslo, after the “two state solution”, after the years of Israeli occupation – of “Area A” and “Area C” to define which kind of occupation the Palestinians must live under – after the vast Jewish colonisation of land thieved from its Arab owners, after the mass killings of Gaza, and Trump’s

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The Peace Deal That is All Israel

The “grand” deal has nothing to do with the ends of justice but is all about personal partisan profit.

Stanley Cohen
By Stanley Cohen
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, takes his seat to watch Vice President Mike Pence administer the oath of office to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, March 29, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Honor, like integrity, is not a commodity,  like a gilded condominium in New York City for sale to the highest bidder. Nor does it license a messenger to whisper through a backdoor that which cannot be said through the front because it’s been closed for want of fairness and respect. Yet, having been rebuked by Palestinian leadership due to the

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