Jared Kushner

There's no territorial disputes, right?

The border's the border.

There's no religious issues there as well.

You're not dealing with Jerusalem.

You're basically just dealing with the fact that Israel wants to make sure that there's no threat from Gaza.

So it's a demilitarization or some kind of security guarantee from a credible source where Israel doesn't feel like Gaza can be used to stage attacks into Israel or to fire rockets into Israel.

And by the way, these are things I was saying three, four years ago, that that was the objective.

And that was really the fear now that's been proven.

Unfortunately, the fear continues.

has manifested.

And in exchange, you can rebuild the place and you can give the people a much better life.

But Hamas has not shown a desire for that or a capability for that.

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.