'Last chance for the Palestinians to have a state': Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and the architect of the so-called "deal of the century", has defended the plan and called it the "last chance for the Palestinians to have a state".

"We tried to carve out a way, with land swaps and bridges and tunnels, to create a Palestinian state that could be contiguous where you can drive form the top through tunnels and bridges, land and highways all the way to the bottom," he told Al Jazeera Arabic.

"If we don't do this today, at the rate Israel is growing, it will never be able to be done. We see this as the last chance for the Palestinians to have a state."

According to Haaretz, Kushner said in private conversations two years ago that his job was to "make it hard" for the Palestinians to reject the plan, and "not to give them an easy way out."