Jared Kushner

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.

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.

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