Jared Kushner

The more countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel, the more Muslims and Arabs that should be able to come and visit.

And by the way, the more you have these normalizations...

Think about what that will do to the economy of the West Bank, where they'll have great hotels, hospitality, tremendous tourism industry because of all the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish holy sites that they have there.

So there's a lot of potential there.

We just have to get unstuck.

I believe that...

It's so possible if the leaders want to make tomorrow better that they can.

And unfortunately, the people who suffer the most are just the Palestinian people.

And I think that in Gaza, they're hostages to Hamas.

And in the West Bank, they're just held back because their leadership just is afraid or too self-interested.

To give them the opportunity to change their paradigm and pursue the potential of what they have.

And by the way, it's an incredibly well-educated population.

It's an incredibly capable population.

And they're right next to Israel where the economy, they need everything.

And so the potential should be incredible if you can just move some of these pieces.

But again, there's still a lot of emotion and hatred you have to work through as well.

But I do believe that you're not going to solve that by litigating the past.

You're only going to solve that by creating an exciting paradigm for the future and getting everyone to buy in and then move towards that.

So one thing on that, which is very interesting, is when I got into my job in the Middle East, all the conventional thinkers said to me, the separation in the Muslim world is between the Sunnis and the Shias, and that's really the big divide.

And as I was traveling, I didn't think there was any divide in that regard.