Kushners meeting w/ Mahmoud Abbas went badly, Trump is reportedly considering pulling out of talks
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/jared-kushners-meeting-with-mahmoud-abbas-went-so-badly-that-trump-is-reportedly-considering-pulling-out-of-talks/
London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat reported Saturday that the meeting between Kushner and Abbas had been “tense.” Abbas was allegedly furious when Kushner relayed a set of demands from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a translation of the report by the Jerusalem Post.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Palestinian officials were “greatly disappointed” following their Wednesday meeting with Kushner and Jonathan Greenblatt , Trump’s Middle East envoy.
"They sounded like Netanyahu's advisers and not like fair arbiters," a senior Palestinian official told the publication. "They started presenting Netanyahu's issues and then we asked to hear from them clear stances regarding the core issues of the conflict."
According to the report, Kushner and Greenblatt criticized Abbas for failing to condemn a terror attack in Jerusalem last week that left one dead, and for refusing to meet Trump’s appointee as U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, over his support for the settlement program.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/jared-kushners-meeting-with-mahmoud-abbas-went-so-badly-that-trump-is-reportedly-considering-pulling-out-of-talks/
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I'm not Hillary Clinton. I'm just some poor schlub posting on DU. So, I make an attempt to be diplomatic, while saying basically the same thing. 
P.S. - I speak French, and like your screen name quite a good deal. You're a hero in word play!
but I have a hard time emulating it.
Get serious. 
The Arabs are quite aware that he's Jewish, and he's been shown in photos wearing the yarmulke many times.
So the Arabs probably assume that Kushner is taking sides with Israel, even if that isn't true.
When Hillary or John Kerry acted as advisors there were no assumptions of favoritism to either side.
Kushner shouldn't even be doing this anyway - what's up with our Secretary of State?
Why isn't he doing his job? Maybe he's off to Russia again to see about a new oil deal.
and paid twice what it was worth for a building with a 666 address. What would you expect?"
I think my 5 year old great-grandniece would have had more sense than to make a crazy deal like the one Crooked Kushner made on that 666 building buy. The apple didn't fall too far from the tree: Charles Kushner.
At Kushners’ Flagship Building, Mounting Debt and a Foundered Deal.
By CHARLES V. BAGLIAPRIL 3, 2017
The Kushner Companies’ flagship property, 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. After years of financial issues, the value of the office space is worth less than the mortgage, according to an analyst. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times.
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The Fifth Avenue skyscraper was supposed to be the Kushner Companies’ flagship in the heart of Manhattan — a record-setting $1.8 billion souvenir proclaiming that the New Jersey developers Charles Kushner and his son Jared were playing in the big leagues.
And while it has been a visible symbol of their status, it has also been a financial headache almost from the start. On Wednesday, the Kushners announced that talks had broken off with a Chinese financial conglomerate for a deal worth billions to redevelop the 41-story tower, at 666 Fifth Avenue, into a flashy 80-story ultraluxury skyscraper comprising a chic retail mall, a hotel and high-priced condominiums.
The official announcement said the company remained “in active, advanced negotiations” with a number of investors, whom it declined to name.
There is no question that the Kushner Companies — Jared has moved to Washington to serve as an adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump — needs to reach a deal soon, either to bring in a fresh infusion of cash or a well-heeled partner willing to foot the bill, if it wants to hold on to the building. Whomever it brings on as an investor would also have to buy out Vornado Realty Trust, the family’s partner in the tower.
More than a quarter of the office space in the building sits vacant. According to an analysis by Trepp L.L.C., a data and analytics firm that tracks bank lending, 666 Fifth Avenue has not generated enough money to pay its debts for several years, forcing the owners to cover the shortfall — at least $10 million in 2015. And that gap is growing. The interest-only $1.2 billion mortgage comes due in less than two years.
“This building has had financial issues for years now,” said Joe McBride, a senior associate at Trepp. “How much longer can they sustain it? Occupancy is at 70 percent, more leases are expiring, and they’re going into their own pocket to pay the debt.”
A deal with the Chinese company, the Anbang Insurance Group, which has ties to the highest echelons of the Chinese Communist Party, would have bound together two politically connected companies. It had become the subject of enormous media attention and had drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers in Washington.
The speculation surrounding the deal became a distraction that led both companies to abandon the negotiations, according to a spokesman for Kushner Companies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/nyregion/kushner-companies-666-fifth-avenue.html?_r=0
And where's that plan to get rid of ISIS?? Waiting. Still waiting. 
Where's Dennis Rodman when you need him?
