Kushner: The architect of Trump’s Peace to Prosperity Plan behind the UAE Deal
President Trump’s Abraham Accord could be a political disaster for him. We pray that it won’t be. This also continues the narrative of some that the land of Israel is for all descendants of Abraham, as the ELCA church and others have contended over the years.
Just as we were making great inroads with the San Remo Resolution in Israel through the Netanyahu government and at the White House and State Department (details below from Ambassador Friedman Briefing to US Faith Leaders on “Peace to Prosperity” Plan – July 27, 2020), Jared Kushner pushed through his normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE.
I was given a heads-up by a friend (who has been sending our information to the Netanyahu government) that a normalization agreement was near completion with the UAE, but the rather rushed White House event was a surprise. President Trump said that an agreement should be officially signed in three weeks at the White House.
The main U.S. mediators for the agreement were Jared Kushner; special Mideast envoy, Avi Berkowitz; special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook; and David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Jared Kushner was planning for this to be big political news. The Trump campaign (Kushner is overseeing the campaign and the Covid 19 response) hasn’t had any significant good news since the Covid 19 pandemic hit the U.S.
Unfortunately, this plan suspends extended sovereignty efforts for 132 communities and as mentioned continues the Palestinian state narrative via the UN Resolutions and Arab Initiative.
Moreover, the Abraham Accord also calls for peace talks that brings the Arabs back in the mix over God’s covenant land. This is not good. Kushner wanted to help President Trump politically, but the consequences of this could be much more costly than the benefit.
The following news chronology occurred while the Kushner team was finalizing the planned Thursday announcement. Ambassador David Friedman’s chief of staff Aryeh Lightstone was to be on the Genesis 123 call from Jerusalem on Tuesday but cancelled Monday saying he had been summoned to the White House for meetings with Jared Kushner.
Putting this into perspective, as the heartland of Israel was once again being dealt with, the heartland of the U.S. was being devastated by a 100-mph derecho that destroyed 10 million acres in Iowa. On Thursday, just after President Trump made his announcement, there were four news items on mail-in voting that could jeopardize his re-election.
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Eye to Eye events: As Trump-Israel-UAE Deal being finalized and introduced
Monday, August 10 – August 12, 2020 - Monday's derecho damaged 10 million acres of crops in Iowa
Deadly derecho leaves path of destruction across Midwest, 800,000 without power - USA Today
A derecho – a dangerous, ferocious wall of wind that's like an inland hurricane – lashed 700 miles across the Midwest on Monday, flipping cars, downing trees, causing widespread property damage and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.
The derecho lasted several hours, traveling through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, a woman died at a hospital after firefighters pulled her from debris inside her mobile home after high winds rolled it onto its side Monday night.
As of Tuesday afternoon, over 800,000 customers were without power in the Midwest, according to Poweroutage.us. Most of the outages were in Illinois and Iowa.
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Monday's derecho damaged 10 million acres of crops in Iowa; 600K still without power in Midwest - USA Today
More than 600,000 customers remained without power Wednesday in the Midwest due to the powerful derecho that roared across the region on Monday. Iowa was especially hard hit, as the potent windstorm devastated the state’s power grid and flattened valuable corn fields.
Pence in Iowa - Bloomberg
Damage was still being calculated, but about 10 million of the state’s 23 million acres of corn and soybean crops were affected, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture. About 90% of crops in Iowa are covered by insurance.
“It’s unfortunate, given the fact that we had a phenomenal storm that has destroyed 10 million acres of Iowa cropland, that the vice president would spend his time on a campaign event instead of touring damaged areas,” former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, told reporters.
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Thursday, August 13, 2020 - Supreme Court denies GOP request on mail-in ballots
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Supreme Court denies GOP request, allows Rhode Island pandemic-related relief on mail-in ballots - Houston Chronicle
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Trump admits he’s blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes - Associated Press
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Trump-Appointed Judge Demands Evidence of Mail-in Voting Fraud - Bloomberg
U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan in Pittsburgh on Thursday asked the campaign to put forward previous examples of such fraud. “Plaintiffs shall produce such evidence in their possession, and if they have none, state as much,” said Ranjan, who took his seat on the bench in August 2019. He gave the campaign until Friday.
Ranjan issued his order in response to a request by two advocacy groups he allowed to intervene in the case along with Pennsylvania Democrats, who have said the suit is an attempt to suppress the vote in a key swing state. The Trump campaign “should not be permitted to raise such spectacular fraud-related claims, particularly in this national climate, and refuse to provide discoverable information to substantiate those claims,” lawyers for the Sierra Club and Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future argued in court papers.