Jared Kushner

And if Iran is able to be restrained and suppressed with their ambitions to cause destabilization, I don't mean Iran the country, I mean the Iranian regime.

Because actually, once you have this economic sphere, if you could bring Iraq into it, if you could bring Iran into it,

that makes it even bigger and stronger.

And the Persian people are incredibly entrepreneurial and incredibly industrious.

So I do think that the region has tremendous potential.

It's just been held back by bad policy, bad leadership, bad objectives.

And again, when President Trump left office in 2021, the Middle East was really on a very, very positive trajectory.

And if the right things happen, it can continue to be so.

So I'm praying at this moment in time that

We navigate the current crisis that the important objectives are achieved of eliminating the terrorists and their threats, and then allowing the leaders who are focused on giving their citizens and their neighbors the opportunity to live a better life are able to work together and really dream and be ambitious and find ways to create a paradigm where humans can flourish.

what is the best way to defeat hate in the world hate is is a very powerful force and it's much easier to hate people you don't know um it's funny when i was working on prison reform one of the most interesting people i met was a reverend actually down in texas who negotiated the first

between the Bloods and the Crips, two of the notorious gangs in America in prison.

And I was very excited to meet him.

And when I met him, I said, well, how'd you do it?

he said it's very simple he says i got all the guys together and i i had a tremendous amount of barbecue brought in he says and i got the meeting says no drinking says drinking sometimes gets people a little bit more against each other he says but i got a meeting and they started sitting down together and they started saying you know what you're just like me and all of a sudden they started finding areas where they were more together yeah look i've traveled all over the world now i've

I've been very fortunate to meet people from different states in America.

I've different political persuasions, different ages, different classes.

And what I found is that there's a fundamental driving amongst all of us where we all want to live a better life.

And

People don't want to fight naturally, but it's easy to fight when you feel wronged or you feel like somebody disrespected you or somebody did something from hatred.