Kushner and Greenblatt headed a delegation visiting Israel in June where they got a glimpse of the situation of the conflict first-hand.The tour also took them to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar while the Palestinian Authority refused to meet the team, boycotted them and characterized them as “spokespeople for the Israeli occupation intent on normalizing Israeli apartheid.”The Kushner and Greenblatt trip to the region came as the Trump administration was considering if, when and how to roll-out a blueprint for a peace process which the Palestinians – because the US decisions to move its capital to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel’s capital – had already rejected"At the end of a productive six-day trip to the region recently, one reality was painfully clear: The nightmare of Hamas’s leadership is continuing and needlessly prolonging the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza," the diplomatic trio wrote about the trip in Thursday's editorial, specifically calling out the terrorist organization on their use of kites, rockets, mortars and terror tunnels to attack Israeli civilians."For far too long, Gaza has lurched from crisis to crisis, sustained by emergency appeals and one-time caravans of aid, without dealing with the root cause: Hamas leadership is holding the Palestinians of Gaza captive," the team concluded."Peace will provide opportunity to break this stalemate, and peace will be achieved only by embracing reality and dismissing a flawed ideology."Herb Keinon contributed to this report.إن كانت غزة تعيش في سلام مع جيرانها، فيمكنها أن تكون وجهة سياحية شأنها شأن شرم الشيخ وتل أبيب. ولكن مع قيادة حماس، فمياه البحر الذي يمكن أن يوفر ظروفا مناسبة لإنشاء المنتجعات أصبحت كريهة الرائحة وخطيرة بسبب الصرف الصحي غير المعالج ...
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Trump's mideast peace team to Hamas: Stop terror in exchange for aid
"Seventy years after the founding of Israel, it would be wise for Hamas to acknowledge that the existence of Israel is a permanent reality."
