Jared Kushner hinted Wednesday that his Middle East peace plan will seek to better integrate Palestinian refugees inside Arab countries as he finalizes proposals despite being shunned by the Palestinian leadership.

Trump said that there would never be an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement if one is not negotiated during his presidency. He also opined that there is a “very good chance” his proposal for solving the decades-long conflict could succeed.

US special Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt published yesterday (Tuesday) an Arabic version of the Trump administration's economic proposal for the Palestinians, a key element of its vision for peace with Israel.

Oman on Tuesday denied it has agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, a day after the Israeli intelligence chief said his country was renewing ties.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited statements for the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) released a Palestinian businessman on Sunday it had arrested upon his return from a U.S.-led economic conference in Bahrain this week, his family and an official said.

The Palestinian Hamas Movement issued a statement on Friday (June 28, 2019) in which it denounced the remarks made by Bahraini foreign minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and dubbed them "irresponsible".

The Bahrain Press Association deplored Manama's hosting of the economic workshop (economic part of deal of the century), despite "assertion and consensus of all Palestinian components on the refusal and boycott of this conference".

Bahrain said it had recalled its envoy to Iraq after protesters upset by Manamas's hosting of an American Middle East peace conference torched its flag in Baghdad.

More than 200 demonstrators broke into the courtyard of Bahrain's Embassy in Baghdad and took down the kingdom's flag on Thursday night to protest a U.S.-led meeting in Bahrain on Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Bahrain's foreign minister has said Israel is part of the region's heritage and the Jewish people have "a place amongst us" in a rare interview of an Arab official by an Israeli journalist.

A U.S.-led conference in Bahrain designed to drum up investment in the Palestinian economy and pave a path to peace with Israel has gone largely unremarked by Israelis preoccupied with a political crisis and their arch-foe Iran.

A day after the Trump administration wrapped up an international conference meant to lay the economic foundations for Israeli-Palestinian peace, the Palestinian premier said it was "divorced from reality" and unlikely to evolve into a political plan.

Many important issues arose from the television interview given by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa to Israeli Channel 13, including the minister’s acceptance to speak to the correspondent of an Israeli channel.

The Trump administration organized an economic workshop in Bahrain on June 25 and 26, purportedly aimed at resolving the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Under the title "Peace to Prosperity", the White house seeks to undermine Palestine, its people, and rights.

A selfie photo of an Israeli military man holding his passport in front of “The Bahraini Society against Normalization with Zionist Entity” building angered Bahrainis, who deemed it a provocation against their rejection of the so-called “Peace to Prosperity” workshop and Zionist presence in their country.

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she came to Bahrain few days before the economic workshop.

Oman said Wednesday that it has decided to open an embassy in the Palestinian territories in support of the Palestinian people, in a first for a Gulf Arab state.

Palestinian leaders accused the Trump administration of punishing them with one hand and offering to reward them with the other, as protesters turned out in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to demonstrate against a U.S. economic peace plan.

Saudi Arabia's finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said on Wednesday that it will support whatever economic plan will bring prosperity to the Palestinians.