#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
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The following is a conversation with Jared Kushner, former senior advisor to the president during the Donald Trump administration and author of Breaking History, a White House memoir. He's one of the most influential and effective presidential advisors in modern history, helping conduct negotiations with some of the most powerful leaders in the world and deliver results on trade, criminal justice reform, and historic progress towards peace in the Middle East. On Thursday, October 5th, we recorded a conversation on topics of war and peace, history and power in the Middle East and beyond. This was about a day and a half before the Hamas attack on Israel, and then we felt we must sit down again on Monday, October 9th, and add a discussion on the current situation.
We opened the podcast with the second newly recorded part. My heart goes out to everyone who has and is suffering in this war. I pray for your strength and for the long-term peace and flourishing of the Israeli and Palestinian people. I love you all. And now, a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We've got InsideTracker for biological data, BetterHelp for mental health, 8sleep for naps, and AG1 for health. Choose wisely, my friends. And now, on to the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, but if you must skip them, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too.
This show is brought to you by Insight Tracker, a service I use to track biological data that comes from my body and gives me lifestyle advice based on the very data that came from my body. It's hard to do these ad reads, if I'm being honest, as I'm thinking about everything that's happening in the Middle East today and all the people who are suffering, the Israelis and the Palestinians. I've traveled to that region recently, and I will return to that region. And if there's any one thing I could say about those travels is I got to see just how beautiful people are. And I got to see, as cliché as it might sound, the common humanity. The culture might be different. The perspectives might be different.
But the hope and the pain and the anger and the love and the full spectrum of the human condition was all there in their eyes. in the eyes of Israelis, in the eyes of Palestinians. So my heart goes out to the people suffering there now. In some fundamental sense, I'm deeply grateful for having these sponsors, for having people that supported this podcast for several years now. It's been an honor. It's been a gift. Anyway, go check them out at insidetracker.com. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp, spelled H-E-L-P, help. I remember the first time a sponsor reached out wanting to support the podcast. It was hard for me to believe that anyone would care enough. Because with a lot of these sponsors, the first step is believing in whatever the heck this is.
It just means the world that they would support it. It allows me to take big risks without any restrictions, without any constraints. Just the fact that we have way more sponsors than we can possibly... I have on the podcast. I get to be picky and I get to really choose great partners. And it just means the world that they care enough to support. There's a lot of people that have been donating money, and forget donating money, even just sending love through email, through messages, through all kinds of ways, running to me on the street and just giving me a hug. Sending some love my way. Yeah, it means the world. Anyway, this is BetterHelp, you know, talk therapy. Really important to take care of your mental health.
And BetterHelp is a really accessible way of doing that. You do it online with a licensed professional therapist. You can check them out at betterhelp.com slash Lex and save on your first month. That's betterhelp.com slash Lex. This episode is also brought to you by Eight Sleep and its Pod 3 mattress. It might be silly to say, but it's one of the things I thought about that I missed when I was traveling in the Middle East and thinking about America, because the Eight Sleep mattress symbolizes home.
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