Jared Kushner

And I don't think there's enough trust to allow them to do that, which is why, you know, under the current circumstances, if you do want to have peace there, Hamas has to be either eliminated or severely degraded in terms of their military capabilities.

So, all I can talk about are where we left them, right?

We left them a place where they had tremendous momentum in the Middle East.

I met with them during the transition and said, you know, look, you know, we even got the Qatar-Saudi conflict done, which was a big—no peace between Israel and Saudi would have been possible without that.

So, we even got that done in our lame duck period.

And they came in and they said, look, we want to focus on the three Cs, which is COVID, climate change, and China.

And I said, that's great.

But the Middle East, we have an amazing place right now.

It's stable.

There's momentum.

Iran is basically broke.

We put such crippling sanctions on Iran that they went from about, I think it was 2.6 million barrels a day of oil they were selling to about 100,000 under Trump.

So their foreign currency reserves were basically depleted and they were broke.

Same with the Palestinians.

We stopped the funding to UNRWA, the UN agency, which is totally corrupt.

We've put $10 billion in there over time.

I did a poll in the Middle East, in Gaza to say, okay, we've invested $10 billion here as a country.

are we popular?

The US had a 7% approval rating.

USAID had a 70% approval rating, but it just felt like a waste of our taxpayer dollars.