Jared Kushner

I had the head of AT&T.

We had Steve Schwartzman from Blackstone came, which was very gracious of them.

We had all the leading Arabic businessmen, the leading builders, leading developers.

And the general consensus of that conference was that this is very doable.

We think that for Gaza in particular, it would cost maybe $7 to $8 billion to rebuild the entire place.

We felt we could reduce the poverty rate in half.

We can create over a million jobs there.

Hmm.

The only thing that people said was holding it back wasn't Israel.

What was holding it back was governance, and people wouldn't have confidence investing there with the rule that Hamas was perpetuating.

So I encourage people actually to look at the plan.

It was very thoughtful.

It was 181 pages.

We went project by project.

Each project is costed out.

It's a real plan that could be implemented, but you need the right governance.

And all of the different Arabic countries are willing to fund it.

The international community is willing to fund it because they've just been throwing so much money at the Palestinians for years.

That's never been outcomes based or conditions based.

It's just been, you know, entitlement money.