Fairfax, VA – Two senior Trump administration officials leading a US push for peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians paid a visit to a senior PA official recovering from surgery this week.
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Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and Jason Greenblatt, the president’s special representative for international negotiations, visited top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat after he underwent a significant lung transplant operation at a hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, late last month.
The operation was successful and Erekat is responding well, said PLO envoy to the US Husam Zomlot, who also was in attendance.
A White House official confirmed their visit after the PLO posted a photo of the visit on Twitter. “They went to visit him to see how he was feeling after surgery and to show support to Saeb, his wife and his son,” the official said.
The official PA news site Wafa reported that Kushner and Greenblatt were checking in on Erekat’s health and well-being. The Wafa report added that Erekat also thanked them for “the kind gesture.”
Kushner and Greenblatt have been shuttling around the Middle East in recent weeks as part of the president’s effort to jumpstart Mideast peace talks. They hope to leverage a recent alignment of strategic interests between Arab powers and the Jewish state into a broader peace agreement.
May he rest in peace, then die
Kushie and ‘J’vanka are on their way out of the WH, following in the footsteps (or goosesteps) of ousted Sepp Bannon, Spicie, Mooch, Flynn, Manafort, Lewandowski, etc. Who’s next??? What a bunch of louts.