Jared Kushner

The divide that I saw was between leaders who wanted to give a better opportunity for their people and create economic reforms and opportunity, and leaders who wanted to use religion or fear to keep their stronghold on power.

And so if you think about who's not creating the opportunity for their people is the Palestinian leadership and the Iranian leadership.

All the other Arab countries were focused on how do we give opportunity for our people to live a better life.

Sure, so it's an amazing thing.

And I sit here today, somebody not in government, and every day I see another flight that goes between, or I see an Israeli student studying at a university in Dubai or a new synagogue opening up in Abu Dhabi, and it just gives me such, or Bahrain, it gives me such tremendous pride to see all of the progress that's been made.

How it occurred, part of why I wrote the book was to put this down for history's sake, to go through all the different intentional, unintentional, circumstantial things that occurred.

It's funny, we left government.

There's a lot of people saying, well, this is why.

I said, I was kind of at the middle of it, and I couldn't even perfectly articulate why it happened, because it was an evolution of a lot of things.

And I joke that...

We made peace on Plan C, but only because we went through the alphabet three times, failing at every letter.

And by the time, but we didn't give up and we kept going and we got it done.

That's probably the best place to start.

So what we did is we made a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and then Israel and Bahrain.

Then we did a deal with Israel and Sudan, then Israel and Kosovo, Israel and Morocco, where basically countries that didn't recognize each other before ended up recognizing each other.

All of these were Muslim-majority countries, and getting them to integrate with Israel was a very big thing.

The traditional thinking had always been was that Muslim Arab countries would not make peace with Israel until the Israeli-Palestinian issue was solved.

And what we were able to do is separate the issues and then make these connections, which are leading to amazing interaction between Jews and Muslims.

So when I think about kind of, obviously you have national security, you have emotional benefits from these things, but the single biggest benefit that I've seen from the accords is that if you were an Arab or a Muslim and you were, you know,

and you were willing to say positive things about Israel or the Jews before this came out, you had been viciously attacked by the media or the hordes of influencers or the extremists in these different countries.