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What's Really Behind Kushner's Visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Is it possible that Kushner’s recent visit was not only to resolve a local conflict or begin normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel, but to lay financial groundwork ahead of his family's departure from the White House?
Update: Saudi, Qatari leaders hug ahead of summit focused on Gulf detente
On Friday, just two days after Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, returned from his visit to the Gulf, the Kuwaiti foreign minister announced a breakthrough in the conflict between Qatar and the Arab Gulf states. Arab leaders were quick to welcome the important diplomatic progress, which could end the conflict that broke out three and a half years ago.