Jared Kushner

So every time a negotiation failed, Israel was able to get more land.

And then the other one was money to the Palestinians.

And I said, every time a negotiation failed, the Palestinians would get more money.

The problem with that money, though, was that it wasn't going to the people.

Some of it would make its way down, but most of it was going to the politicians.

You had leadership of the Palestinians, who was basically, I think at that point, it was in the 16th year of a four-year term, so it wasn't democratically elected.

And a lot of what I tried to show was that there was no rule of law, there was no judicial system, there were no property rights, and there was no opportunity or hope for the people to live a better life.

And so...

All of the envoys to date were basically trained to go and do the same things.

And again, I got massively criticized by all the previous envoys for not doing it the same way they did.

But I thought the problem structurally just didn't make sense.

And so I felt like the incentive structure was all wrong and I took a different approach.

And so what's the different approach?

I started writing down a document.

These are the 11 issues, but there's really only three issues that matter.

I said, just tell me what you think the compromise is that you think the other side could live with that you would accept.

And it was very hard to get them talking about this.

Oh, you have to go back to 1972.

You have to go back to 1982.

You have to go back to 2001.