Jared Kushner

I wish it wasn't something we had to watch, but it is.

With that being said, though...

The backdrop, I've been speaking to friends over the last couple of days.

I have one friend I spoke with last night who was saying that a good friend messaged him saying, I'm going in, we're going to do some operations to try to free some of the hostages held in one of the kibbutzes.

Messaged him the next morning.

He was one of the first through the door to try to free these hostages.

And he was killed by a Hamas militant.

And sadly, we're going to be hearing many, many more stories of brave Israeli soldiers trying to get these terrorists out of Israel, trying to free innocent civilians who unfortunately are risking their lives to do it.

And they're all heroes, but some will have a less good fate than others, sadly.

So it's a very, very heartbreaking moment.

And I do think that it's very important at this moment in time for the entire world to stand behind Israel.

I think that Hamas has shown the entire world who they really are.

I think what their aim is, what they're willing to do, and all of the strong security that Israel's put in place.

over the last years, which in some instances was criticized, I think is now being validated that there was a real threat that they were looking to deter.

So short answer is my heart is broken, praying for peace, praying for strength, praying for Israel to do what it needs to do to avoid being in this situation again, which is either eliminating or severely degrading Hamas's capabilities.

There cannot be peace in Israel and in the Middle East while there is a terror group that is being funded by Iran that is allowed to flourish and is allowed to plan operations that are going to aim to kill innocent civilians.

And so as somebody who was formerly in this position who.

I was intimately involved with Israel with the strategies to minimize attacks from Hamas and to try to turn the region around.

And I think we did do a very substantial job under President Trump.

The Middle East went from one of the most chaotic regions in the world.