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Kushner's economic plan for Mideast peace faces broad Arab rejection
Lebanon and Iraq will not attend the conference. “Those who think that waving billions of dollars can lure Lebanon, which is under the weight of a suffocating economic crisis, into succumbing or bartering over its principles are mistaken,” the parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, said. Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah, which wields significant influence over the government, previously called the plan “a historic crime” that must be stopped. Thousands of people marched through the Moroccan capital, Rabat, on Sunday to express their solidarity with the Palestinians and their opposition to Kushner’s plan. ... (full story)