At Kushner’s urging, Trump was approaching the Palestinians the same way he had handled New York condominium owners he wanted to force out so he could redevelop their property—turning off the heat, refusing to make repairs, ordering the doorman not to accept packages. If he made their life miserable, they would be ready to take any lowball deal that Trump offered, or so the theory went. Same with the Palestinians. “I’m going to drive their price down as much as possible,” Kushner confided to one Middle East expert. But the Palestinians were not recalcitrant tenants who would simply move
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