IMPLICIT TRUST Donald Trump trusts Jared Kushner implicitly. How will Abu Mazen react to Jared? (Photos: AFP Imagebank)

A merica’s next Middle East peace envoy will also sport the initials J.K. but his name is Jared Kushner not John Kerry.

Expect Kushner to navigate a departure from the tired “two-state solution” approach that had its last rites at this week’s Paris peace conference.

Kushner is Trump’s closest and most loyal advisor. Without him Hillary Clinton would be taking the oath of office. Kushner formulated the big data campaign that identified Rust Belt states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan as ripe for Trump’s picking.

It will take more than a gift for numbers to solve the irreconcilable differences fueling the Arab-Israeli conflict however.

Those differences will be intensified if Trump carries out his campaign promise to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — and the Palestinian Authority keeps theirs.

Mahmoud Al-Habbash religious affairs advisor to PA chairman Abu Mazen declared on the official PA television that such a move would be “a declaration of war on all Muslims.” Palestinian Media Watch a Jerusalem-based NGO that monitors Palestinian incitement reports five more PA officials issued similar threats including Saeb Erekat secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee who said: “If you transfer the embassy and agree to the annexation of the settlements in the West Bank you will drag the region into a state of anarchy extremism and lawlessness.”

Following the threats reports have circulated that Trump might be recalibrating the move. One report suggested Trump might make do with allowing David Friedman his ambassador to Israel to work out of Jerusalem. Or the US might suffice with a symbolic cornerstone of a Jerusalem embassy and then freeze construction.

Asked about the reports during a one-on-one interview in Jerusalem Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told Mishpacha “I’ve heard. All I can say is all the indications we got is that Trump is very serious about moving the embassy.”

Pressed for details Hotovely added: “Since the dialogue between us and the administration hasn’t started yet because Trump is not in the White House we can’t tell you where it stands but we got very good indications that he actually stands behind his promise. We’ll be welcoming this decision which we think is a historic decision and very suitable to celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Jerusalem being united.”