Jared Kushner
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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.
I went back through this process and I studied basically every economic project in the post-World War II period.
So we looked at what they did in South Korea, why it was successful with some strong industrial planning.
We looked at Japan.
We looked at Singapore.
We looked at Poland, why it was successful.
We spent a lot of time on the Ukraine plan for the country and why it wasn't successful.
And that was mostly because of governance and corruption, which actually resembles a lot of what's gone wrong with the Palestinians, where there's no property rights, there's no rule of law.
And what we did is we built a plan to show, you know, it's not that hard, right?
In the sense that between the West Bank and Gaza, you had 5 million people.
And we put together a plan, I think it was about $27 billion.
We got together a conference.