Jared Kushner

And so my hope and prayers are that President Trump is reelected and that he's able to then restore order and calm and peace and prosperity to the world.

From a place of strength.

That's the only way he knows how to do it.

The Middle East for 20 years was an area of conflict.

They spent all their money on bullets and bombs.

You have young leadership now in Saudi Arabia and UAE and Qatar, and there's a much more ambitious agenda now for the region to make it an economic superpower and hub of the world.

Israel is one of the most burgeoning and exciting tech economies in the world.

And if you think about it, it's almost like having Silicon Valley not connected to California.

The thing that's held the region back for all these years has just been the conflict and the division and the lack of connectivity.

But if you have that region, if it can all come together, if you can create a security architecture, you have an incredibly young population, you have a lot of wealth and resources and a lot of capabilities and know-how.

And so I think that if...

It's managed correctly.

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.