Jared Kushner

It basically was you had a land dispute, so you had to figure out where do you put borders ultimately.

You had a security paradigm, which I was much more favorable to Israel's perspective on.

And obviously, the events of the past 48 hours have fully justified that bias.

And then in addition to that, you had to deal with the religious sites.

But I felt operationally that wasn't actually as complicated as people made it because you wanted to just leave it open for everybody.

Yeah.

Then I went through and I felt that the Palestinian leadership was fairly disincentivized to make a deal because there was just this paradigm where they had billions of dollars coming in from the international community.

And I think that they feared that if they made a deal, they would lose their relevancy internationally and the money would stop flowing into the country.

So

What I tried to do is to say, my approach when I would get into a hard problem, say, how do I understand all the different escape hatches?

How do I try to eliminate them?

And then build a golden bridge that becomes really the only, but also the most desirable pathway for the decision makers to walk through.

And it wasn't always hard.

And sometimes you have to go and hold their hand or you try to pick them up and walk them across.

But a lot of these leaders are very reluctant to change.

And the dynamics of the Palestinians also were such that

I think they were fairly stuck where they were.

So we developed a business plan for Gaza, the West Bank.

We threw in some improvements for Jordan and Egypt as well.

I based it off of the Vision 2030 that they did in Saudi Arabia, which I thought was a visionary document.