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FLEISHER: The End Of The 100-Year Arab-Israeli War

Yishai Fleisher

“Peace to Prosperity” was the name of the economic “workshop” organized by Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Steven Mnuchin in Bahrain. The topic was bettering the Palestinian economy with the hope of creating a more congenial atmosphere for co-existence between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza.

The event was plush, with Gulf Arabs dressed in pristine white tunics and where “Israeli and Arab businessmen openly mingled at the non-alcoholic cocktail parties.” Fortune magazine described the global gathering: “Over 300 top delegates came from 30 countries, from Australia and Argentina; Dubai and Delhi; Nigeria and Norway; and even such unlikely pairings as Saudi Arabia and Qatar or Greece and Turkey.”

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