Jared Kushner

I was hearing all of the experts, and I always say experts with quotes because only in Washington can you work on something for a decade and continue to fail, and then you basically leave and are considered an expert.

But that's one of the problems with Washington, which maybe we could talk about later.

But the notion here was I went and I said, let me try to understand what the issue is with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the people, right?

I always felt the politicians were a little disconnected.

So I commissioned several focus groups, one in Amman, one in Cairo, one in Dubai, and one in Ramallah.

And I asked people, Muslims, what is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict about?

Mm-hmm.

And time and time again, the most popular thing that they said was that Israel was not allowing access to the mosque for Muslims to pray.

And what was interesting was, is that Israel's policy is to allow anyone who wants to come and pray peacefully at the sites to come and pray.

Sometimes they have security issues when there's provocations.

But by and large, since 1967, when Israel...

was able to take back Jerusalem in a defensive war.

Just to be very clear, they were attacked in the south and they were attacked from the east.

And they basically were able to beat back the Jordanians and the Egyptians and then reconquer the old city of Jerusalem.

And during that time, immediately after Israel then passed the protection of holy places law,

which was they basically took resources they didn't have, and they said, we're going to restore the Christian sites, the Muslim sites, the Jewish sites.

And they've worked to allow everyone access to the mosque.

So today, any Muslim who wants to come can come and pray at the mosque.

The mosque is, Israel's acknowledged that King Abdullah, the King of Jordan, is the custodian of the mosque.

And as long as people want to come to the country and pray peacefully, they're able to do that.