Jared Kushner drew immediate backlash for a social media post claiming President Donald Trump had opened a new chapter of ‘peace’ in the Middle East, as a U.S.-initiated war raged on.
Kushner posted Thursday on X to mark what he called the six-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords — the 2020 diplomatic agreements that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states.
The comments came despite a war that Trump began February 28 by launching strikes against Iran, igniting a regional conflict that has since drawn in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Magical thinking is the new norm in this US administration,” former diplomat Alan Eyre responded on X, quoting Kushner’s post.
Eyre spent 40 years as a U.S. Foreign Service diplomat and served as the sole career diplomat on the U.S. nuclear negotiating team that produced the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In his post on X, Kushner claimed that Trump had delivered what many said was impossible.
“Six years ago, President Trump launched the Abraham Accords and opened a new chapter of peace, partnership, and prosperity in the Middle East,” Kushner wrote.
“The Middle East is once again at an inflection point,” the president’s son-in-law added. “Now we have an opportunity to build an even broader movement around cooperation, shared prosperity and security.”
In the February 28 strike on Iran, the U.S. and Israel killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior military figures, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The war has not ended.
Since March 2, Israel has also waged a separate war in Lebanon, where more than 4,300 people have been killed, including at least 253 children, according to the United Nations.
Former Obama White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor was among those who replied to Kushner directly on X.
“Yes the Middle East has been so peaceful since the signing of the Abraham Accords. No new wars. No slaughter of innocent people. Just good vibes and trade deals,” Vietor wrote.
Kushner, however, focused on the future.
“We surprised the world once. With the right leadership, focus, patience and courage, I believe we can do it again,” he wrote.
Andreas Krieg, a security analyst at King’s College London, was less optimistic.
“Project ‘Peace in the Middle East’ is going very well indeed,” Krieg replied to Kushner.
The Strait of Hormuz — through which 20 percent of the world’s oil once flowed — remained effectively closed as of Wednesday, with U.S.-Iran negotiations stalled, according to CNN.
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