Jared Kushner
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But if you look at a lot of the propaganda that's been used by ISIS or Iran to recruit terrorists or to justify their incursions, they often say they're doing it in the name of liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But from an operational and pragmatic perspective today...
Any Muslim who wants to go to the mosque, you can book a flight to Israel now through Dubai because there's flights between Israel and Dubai.
And as long as your country has relations with Israel and they'll accept your passport in there, you can come and pray.
And that's what Israel wants.
Israel wants Jerusalem to be a place where all religions can come and celebrate together.
But you have a lot of actors that look to find ways to use these religious tensions in order to sow division and justify violent behavior.
So Israel's good at a lot of things.
They're not very good traditionally with public relations.
After the Abraham Accords, we made the first Abraham Accords deal in August 2020, and then we made five other deals.
We first did United Arab Emirates, then we did a deal with Bahrain, then we did a deal with
Kosovo.
Then we did a deal with Sudan.
Then we did a deal with Morocco.
And then we got the GCC deal done as well, the tension between Qatar, Saudi, UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain.
And that was allowing us to create a pathway to then pursue the Israeli-Saudi normalization.
So we had so much momentum then that the goal was just keep getting more
countries to normalize relations with Israel.
Once you create the connection between people and create the ability for people to do business together, the ability for flights to fly between, then you would just start naturally having people coming and everyone has a smartphone today so they can then post and combat the misinformation that's been out there.
But this misinformation is not something that's new.