“It’s the Deal of the Century,” says President Donald Trump, one of the greatest salesmen in history. “A final chance for the Palestinians to secure statehood,” says Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and officially, at least, the author of ‘the Deal’. Three Arab states sent their ambassadors along: Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE, the rest stayed away. And the king of Saudi Arabia, contrary to what Trump claimed, told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Saudi Arabia’s attitude to the Israel-Palestine question remained unchanged. No Palestinian was at the launch and none was involved in drawing up the plan. So, we invited David Hearst, formerly of the Guardian, now editor in-chief of Middle East Eye, into the studio to find out whether the 180 pages of Kushner’s plan was ‘the Deal of the Century’ or ‘the Steal of the Century’.
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