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First son-in-law Jared Kushner had a gift for embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a map with the word “Nice” personally inscribed by President Trump next to the Golan Heights.

Netanyahu proudly displayed the official State Department map, updated to incorporate the long-disputed Golan as part of Israel, during a news conference in Jerusalem on Thursday about the political turmoil engulfing the Jewish State.

It’s been a bad week for Netanyahu, who despite winning a fourth term in April must prepare for another election in September after he failed to form a coalition government.

In a bid to play down the political chaos and focus public attention on his foreign policy prowess — in particular his close friendship with Trump — Netanyahu whipped out Kushner’s map with the message from Trump.

Team Trump has recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed.

Meanwhile, Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s Middle East envoy, were pushing their unreleased peace proposal for the combustible region, which Trump has called “the deal of the century.”

But Palestinian leaders see the US proposal to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, still in draft form after almost two years, as a plan to finish off the Palestinian cause.

While its precise outlines have yet to be revealed, Palestinian and Arab sources who have been briefed on the draft say Kushner has jettisoned the two-state solution — the long-standing US and international formula that envisions an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza.

After several postponements, Washington is set to formally announce the proposal’s economic components in June, at a “Peace for Prosperity” workshop Bahrain.

But the plan faces possible delays due to the political upheaval in Israel.

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