Francis Foster

And the leaders of those countries know that they've got two choices.

Either they create jobs, meaning, purpose, economic prosperity, or all these young men are going to go the wrong direction.

So they're desperately trying to create thriving economies so that their youth don't feel the need to fight their grandfather's war.

And as I understand it, the Kushner approach has been what you do –

is you find a way to address the fighting so it's not happening.

And then you just lock the entire region into economic cooperation.

Because the UAE wants to trade with Israel.

The Saudis want to trade with Israel.

And the other reason is they have a common enemy, which is Iran.

All the other countries, particularly the Gulf countries, they fear Iran a lot more than they fear Israel.

a lot more than they care about Israel.

Iran is their number one problem.

It's a threat to them.

And so if you can get the entire Middle East, other than Iran, maybe Qatar, I don't know, together, working together, they don't then have the incentive to continue this conflict because they're trading, they've got way more to lose by this continuing.

So that's the end goal.

The difficulty is as long as Hamas is in power,

I mean, they did October 7th to prevent that from happening, basically.

They wanted to derail the long-term aspiration for peace.

And Iran wanted them to do that because Iran doesn't want those countries to work together.

Right.