Jared Kushner

He recognized the Golan Heights.

He got out of the Iran deal.

We did an economic conference in Bahrain where we brought Israelis to meet with Saudi and Emirati and Qatari businessmen, and everyone came together.

And each one of these instances were unthinkable previously.

And everyone said that if you did it, the world was going to end.

And

Every time President Trump did one, the next morning the sun rose, the next evening the sun set, and things moved on.

And so by doing that, what President Trump did was he slaughtered a lot of the sacred cows of these false barriers that people had erected and showed people that the vast majority of the people in the Middle East, whether they're Jewish, Muslim, Christian, whatever religion they are,

They just want to live better lives.

And so what we basically did was create a paradigm where the voices for peace, the voices for together now finally had a forum where they were able to do it.

And we did that in the backdrop.

The way we were able to be successful was we severely limited the resources of Iran and they were focused more internally and they couldn't cause the trouble that they were causing everywhere else.

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.