Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I think it would be a game changer for the region.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I think it's one of Iran's worst nightmares to have Israel and Saudi interlinked together.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I think it'd be great for the Saudi people from a security perspective, what they're discussing with America would be
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
very strong.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
The ability to get different elements across would be incredible.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
So what I would say with it is that the industrial logic held yesterday, and I think it will hold again tomorrow.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
So I always expect countries to act in their interests.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I think that
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
The deal that's on the table right now between Saudi, Israel, and America is in Saudi's interests, it's in America's interests, and it's in Israel's interests.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
What's going to happen now, though, is the political dynamics are going to shift.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And I think that, as we've seen with political dynamics, they come and go.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I think let's get through this moment, and then I hope at the right time that those talks will be able to resume and conclude in an appropriate way.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And it's funny, Lex, when I was working on the US-Mexico agreement for the trade, we would have every day there'd be a tweet that would go out or there would be an issue.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I mean, people forget how intense it was between America and Mexico.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And I would speak to my counterpart in Mexico after a rough day and we were working on something, we were making progress, it'd get blown up.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And I'd speak to him and say, you know what, look,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
they're not moving America, they're not moving Mexico.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Let's just, you know, let's stop for today.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Let's pick up tomorrow and let's find a new way to bring this forward.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
So I would just encourage everyone working on that, not to give up, to keep working hard at it and to find a way.