(CNN) President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner told CNN that if Palestinians can't meet certain conditions under the administration's Middle East plan, then he doesn't believe Israel should take "the risk to recognize them as a state."

Kushner was responding to CNN's Fareed Zakaria, who challenged the President's senior adviser and son-in-law to explain conditions that the Trump administration plan sets for Palestinians before it will allow them to form a state.

Zakaria pointed out that "no Arab country" currently meets the criteria Palestinians are being asked to achieve in the next four years -- including ensuring free press, free elections, guarantees of religious freedom and an independent judiciary and financial institutions that are as transparent as they are in the West.

"Isn't this just a way of telling the Palestinians you're never actually going to get a state," Zakaria asked, "because ... if no Arab countries today in a position that you are demanding of the Palestinians before they can be made a state, effectively, it's a killer amendment."

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