Kushners meeting w/ Mahmoud Abbas went badly, Trump is reportedly considering pulling out of talks

[karynnj]

11. Drop the sexism - I think George Marshall and John Kerry were the 2 best Secretary of States in

the last 70 years - and they were both male. Like Clinton, both had long careers of exemplary public service before being that position. It diminishes Clinton to suggest that she was better just because she was a woman. Clinton was good, not because she was a woman, but because she had some foreign policy experience and was very intelligent.

As Tom Friedman (NYT) said of Kushner's credentials on Israel/Palestine in a Davos interview with John Kerry in January, "He went to (Jewish) summer camp".

Netanyahu has welcomed the Trump team - Kushner, a slum lord married to Ivanka, whose family funded settlements that Israel itself deemed illegal, David Friedman - a Trump lawyer who is on record supporting the settlements, and Greenblatt, Trump's bankruptcy lawyer. Everyone on that team is a right wing Jew. In the past, people have questioned even Carter, Mitchell and Kerry as being biased toward Israel, even as all three were trashed by right wing Jews -- and we KNOW the House and Senate rarely disagree with AIPAC. This team is actually to the right of Netanyahu.

It is very hard to see how this could lead to any grand deal.