From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, with Benjamin Netanyaku headed to the U.S., the unknown history between the Prime Minister

of Israel and the Sun and Law of the American President that could define the Middle East for

the next four years. Then, a candid analysis of the President's emerging plan for Arab-Israeli

peace could it actually work? And a resignation amid scandal? Why Michael Flynn left the Trump

administration? It's Tuesday, February 14th.

The thing will not go away, refuse us to go away. It remains forever implanting in our hearts.

In 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood amid the ruins of an Auschwitz

crematorium where more than a million Jews had been murdered and stressed the dire importance

of the Jewish state. He was speaking in front of thousands of Jewish teenagers, waving Israeli flags,

an early stop on a tour that would take these young people from the concentration camps of Poland,

where Judaism nearly met its end to Israel, where it had been reborn.

Among the young men and women in the crowd that day was 17-year-old Jared Kushner.

So he was a pretty normal, new Jersey teenager with a couple of really exceptional aspects to his

life story. One was that his grandparents had survived the Holocaust, each in truly grueling

fashion, and not only that, but they survived. And as soon as they came to America, they became wildly

successful. It was kind of the stuff of refugee dreams. And they committed themselves to Jewish

continuity and survival. They gave to a dizzying array of Jewish charities, charities in Israel.

And Jared was reared with a real sense of responsibility to assure the Jewish future,

a huge connection to Israel. And he was educated in schools that you would call kind of religiously

Zionist. They taught that support for the state of Israel was not only a kind of political thing,

but that it was also almost a religious commandment. With Donald Trump's son-in-law, now a key advisor

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