Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Sends Message to Palestinian Arabs and President Abbas

'You deserve a bright future'

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner welcomes technology company leaders to a summit of the American Technology Council at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S. June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

JERUSALEM—Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, said that “now is the time” for both the Israelis and Palestinians to work on a peace solution and that he is “ready to work” with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who continues to boycott him, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Kushner spoke in an interview with the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds, the Arabic name for Jerusalem.