Jared Kushner
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And I'll give you a
I studied the economies of Jordan, West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Morocco.
This was numbers from like 2019.
But what was interesting was the GDP per capita of somebody living in the West Bank was actually the same as Jordan.
And it was actually more than somebody living in Egypt.
And the debt to GDP that the Palestinians had was like 30, 40% compared to Egypt, which was at like 130%.
And Jordan, which was at 110%.
And Lebanon, which was at 200%.
And so you're in a situation where a lot of this stuff didn't make sense.
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.
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.
you could have peace there very easily.
So to date, all of the aid that's been given to the Palestinians has been an entitlement.
It's not conditions-based.
It's always just we give the money and there's no expectations.
It's very simple.
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.
PA being the Palestinian Authority, which is the leadership.
It's not hard to do.
It just takes people who actually want to do it.