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Jared Kushner

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And I'll give you a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

I studied the economies of Jordan, West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Morocco.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

This was numbers from like 2019.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

But what was interesting was the GDP per capita of somebody living in the West Bank was actually the same as Jordan.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And it was actually more than somebody living in Egypt.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And the debt to GDP that the Palestinians had was like 30, 40% compared to Egypt, which was at like 130%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And Jordan, which was at 110%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And Lebanon, which was at 200%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And so you're in a situation where a lot of this stuff didn't make sense.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

But if you draw lines, create institutions where Palestinian people can now feel like they have property rights and have ownership over their place and let the money flow past the leadership ranks to the people, let them have jobs, let them have opportunity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

And then let all Muslims from throughout the world have access to the mosque and Israel making sure that they can control the security, which I think the Jordanians and a lot of others want Israel to have strong security control there to prevent the radicalists and the extremists from coming.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

you could have peace there very easily.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

So to date, all of the aid that's been given to the Palestinians has been an entitlement.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

It's not conditions-based.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

It's always just we give the money and there's no expectations.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

It's very simple.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

You make the aid conditions-based, you fight for transparency, you do it through institutions other than the PA, or you put reformers into the PA that will allow it to go down that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

PA being the Palestinian Authority, which is the leadership.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

It's not hard to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

It just takes people who actually want to do it.