Dexter Filkins
speaker
521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Dexter Filkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Gaza is mostly, almost entirely in ruins.
It's a place of two million people who are now living in the rubble.
They're bathing in the ocean.
It's a horrible, horrible humanitarian catastrophe, which is continuing to this day.
And so in January at Davos, you know, where all the world leaders and bigwigs like get together, Jared gave a presentation about
And he was just echoing the president here.
But he gave a kind of PowerPoint presentation in which he showed these pictures that look like Miami Beach, you know, these gleaming hotels and office towers and high rises.
And he said, this could be Gaza, you know, and we should plan for catastrophic success.
But basically, we can rebuild Gaza to look like this.
And I talked to people who watched the presentation who said –
It was a kind of departure from reality.
And people were rolling their eyes going, what on earth are we watching here?
You know, we have this horrible, horrible situation.
And Jared Kushner is treating it like basically another real estate deal.
Like, this is a great economic opportunity for, you know, time for everybody to come
and
money and get rich.
And, you know, it's so—I think it struck people as not serious.
So basically you have Trump's first term, 2017 to 2021.
Jared is the point man for the Middle East.
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