- The White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday gifted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a map that showed the annexed territory of the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
- President Donald Trump signed the image and wrote the word “nice.”
- Trump in March overturned decades of US policy by formally recognising the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
- Netanyahu on Wednesday was dealt a devastating political blow when Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament and hold new elections because he failed to form a coalition government after April’s elections.
- The political chaos in Israel also spells trouble for Kushner’s Middle East peace plan, which he’s attempting to promote during his visit to the region.
The White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday gave Benjamin Netanyahu an interesting gift after the Israeli prime minister suffered a devastating political blow earlier in the week.
As the president’s son-in-law visited Jerusalem to promote his Middle East peace plan, Kushner gifted Netanyahu a map that showed the annexed territory of the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
President Donald Trump signed the image and wrote the word “nice” with an arrow pointing to the disputed territory, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967.
Read the article by John Haltiwanger in Business Insider Australia.