Jared Kushner

Since we've left, obviously the dynamics have changed, but-

The way you get to peace is obviously, number one, through strength, and number two, by finding a way for people to be better off tomorrow than they are today.

And what I found was that most of the voices looking for violence or trouble were people who were just focused on what happened two years ago, 20 years ago, 70 years ago, 1,000 years ago.

People who were trying to solve those problems in that context often were looking more to

use those past grievances as a justification for their power and for the bad behavior that they were looking to perpetuate.

Sure.

So this was something I took on.

I was working on the political framework between the Israelis and the Palestinians and trying to understand what were the issues.

And the issues were not very many.

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?