Jared Kushner
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was able to take back Jerusalem in a defensive war.
Just to be very clear, they were attacked in the south and they were attacked from the east.
And they basically were able to beat back the Jordanians and the Egyptians and then reconquer the old city of Jerusalem.
And during that time, immediately after Israel then passed the protection of holy places law,
which was they basically took resources they didn't have, and they said, we're going to restore the Christian sites, the Muslim sites, the Jewish sites.
And they've worked to allow everyone access to the mosque.
So today, any Muslim who wants to come can come and pray at the mosque.
The mosque is, Israel's acknowledged that King Abdullah, the King of Jordan, is the custodian of the mosque.
And as long as people want to come to the country and pray peacefully, they're able to do that.
But if you look at a lot of the propaganda that's been used by ISIS or Iran to recruit terrorists or to justify their incursions, they often say they're doing it in the name of liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But from an operational and pragmatic perspective today...
Any Muslim who wants to go to the mosque, you can book a flight to Israel now through Dubai because there's flights between Israel and Dubai.
And as long as your country has relations with Israel and they'll accept your passport in there, you can come and pray.
And that's what Israel wants.
Israel wants Jerusalem to be a place where all religions can come and celebrate together.
But you have a lot of actors that look to find ways to use these religious tensions in order to sow division and justify violent behavior.
So Israel's good at a lot of things.
They're not very good traditionally with public relations.
After the Abraham Accords, we made the first Abraham Accords deal in August 2020, and then we made five other deals.
We first did United Arab Emirates, then we did a deal with Bahrain, then we did a deal with