Thread by @glcarlstrom

Day two of the Kushner conference is underway with the director of the IMF talking about lessons from Mozambique we can apply to Palestine (seriously). I'll spare you all eight hours of live-tweeting but will thread occasional bits here

A Saudi government adviser on the first panel just said, "everything that we're talking about today took place 25 years ago," which should be the official motto of all Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts

"Without an ought, the great visions of tomorrow fade… is is being, ought is becoming. The Peace to Prosperity economic plan is a plan for moving from what is to what ought to be." — an actual thing that was just said

The second panel (which is all men) is now discussing a prompt from the moderator, "do you think the potential to borrow a couple hundred dollars is enough to convince someone to move away from radicalization?"

If they do another installment of this conference next year I hope they call it 2 Peaceful 2 Prosperous

Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, is on stage talking about how football can bring peace (or something). Here's a report on how FIFA violates its own rules by overlooking the settler clubs in Israel's national league. hrw.org/news/2016/09/2…

"The Arabs have always been bad at selling their own propaganda." — Tom Barrack, the dodgy Lebanese-American financier who helped introduce Kushner to Gulf royals

Moderator: You've been to the Palestinian territories, tell us how the Palestinian people live
Panelist: Well, I went as a tourist, and I was only there for a day and a half. But people there seem to like sports and music

The head of the Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi says he's "very excited about the future of health care in the region." In Gaza last week doctors said they're currently unable to obtain everything from cancer meds to milk for infants

After three all-male panels, the organizers have now scheduled an all-female panel to talk about the need for female inclusion

We're now listening to a conversation about whether Egyptian husbands objected to their wives going to work as drivers for a "pink taxi" company. I will buy you dinner if you can explain how this relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

We kick off the afternoon's fun with Kevin Hassett, the "Dow 36,000" guy, talking about property rights. In Palestine. "You can radically transform economies when you improve their ability to document property rights!"

The president of AT&T, asked to ballpark the cost of a 5G network in Palestine, compared it to Mexico, which he said was "five to ten times bigger." (It's 300 times bigger.) Genuinely unclear if some of today's panelists could find Palestine on a map

I'm not making this up, Hassett just wondered aloud whether the blockchain could be a solution for property deeds in Palestine

Jared Kushner says his economic plan has been downloaded more than half a million times since Saturday. If you believe that, I have a West Bank-Gaza monorail to sell you

Mnuchin: There's a lot of money in this room, I'm confident we'll get the first $4bn fast, this will be like a hot IPO. It's like they've all agreed to just pretend the conflict is already over

Amazing moment just now as Mnuchin and three Gulf finance ministers agreed on the importance of prosperity. Think we're close to a breakthrough that solves this whole thing

That's a (very anticlimactic) wrap. Can't wait for the political plan to be released at the Annexation to Anarchy workshop! Until then, I need a drink