Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has offered his own solution to the mass bloodshed and displacement in Gaza: some good, old-fashioned real estate development.
Kushner also suggested displacing Palestinian civilians from Gaza, moving them, at least temporarily, to Egypt or to the Negev Desert in southern Israel, supposedly to enable Israel to “finish the job” in its war against Hamas.
“The thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” Kushner said. “I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.”
The interviewer seemed taken aback by Kushner’s Negev proposal. When he asked the former president’s son-in-law if this was something that was seriously under consideration within Israel, Kushner shrugged. “I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now,” Kushner replied. “I’m looking at this situation and I’m just thinking: What would I do if I was there?”
www.motherjones.com/...
“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,”
“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner said. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.”
Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.
The former property dealer, married to Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an interview at Harvard University on 8 March.
Kushner was a senior foreign policy adviser under Trump’s presidency and was tasked with preparing a peace plan for the Middle East. Critics of the plan, which involved Israel striking normalisation deals with Gulf states, said it bypassed questions about the future for Palestinians.
www.theguardian.com/...