In the long and fractured history of Middle East peacemaking, Jared Kushner arrived in Israel this week carrying a proposal already wounded — rejected by Netanyahu before the ink of diplomacy had dried. The encounter between American ambition and Israeli political reality unfolded against a backdrop of more than 73,000 dead, 1.9 million displaced, and a ceasefire that exists more in name than in practice. What is being tested here is not merely a 15-point roadmap, but whether the architecture of international mediation can hold when the parties it seeks to reconcile are each, in their own way,
Kushner meets Netanyahu as Trump's Gaza peace plan faces Israeli resistance
More than 1,200 people killed since ceasefire began; 73,000+ total deaths in Gaza war including 21,280 children; 1.9 million displaced (90% of population).