Kushner’s Burden: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Mr. Kushner should be on the shortlist for an invitation from the Storting. Yet he now faces scrutiny by the House over the fact that he is prepared to put his — and Saudi Arabia’s — money where his mouth is.

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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meets with Jared Kushner at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2020. AP/Saudi Press Agency

“Blessed are the peacemakers,” says the good book, and by that measure Jared Kushner, the real estate scion and presidential son-in-law and senior adviser, has an overflowing cup, to borrow the psalmist’s parlance. An architect of the agreements between Israel and Arab countries won by President Trump and known as the Abraham Accords, Mr. Kushner should be on the shortlist for an invitation from the Storting.

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