TOP TRUMP ADVISER: ‘GAZA’S WATERFRONT PROPERTY COULD BE VERY VALUABLE’

Tue 19 March 2024:

Video has emerged of Jared Kushner, former US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law who served as one of the chief Middle East dealmakers during Trump’s tenure in the White House, giving his vision for the future of post-war Gaza during an interview at Harvard University.

“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told Harvard Professor Tarek Masoud on March 8.

Kushner also said that it’s a shame that “all the money” in the territory went towards building tunnel networks and arms instead of education and “innovation”.

He suggested that, were he in charge, he would move civilians in Gaza to somewhere in the Negev desert while Gaza is “cleaned up.”

“I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move,” he said.

When asked if this is something that’s being discussed by decision-makers in Israel and the US, Kushner did not elaborate.

“I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now,” Kushner said. “And I’m looking at the situation and I’m thinking: What would I do if I was there?”

Kushner suggested Israel should pursue “diplomacy” to depopulate Gaza, with Egypt a possible home for the population, but failing that they could be transferred to Israel’s Negev, he said, in a series of shocking statements about the war which has killed over 32,000 Palestinians.

“I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job,” he said.

“I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.”

Kushner was a key MENA policymaker in Trump’s government but with almost no experience in government or specialisation in the Middle East, his appointment was considered by some as an act of nepotism

Should Donald Trump be re-elected to the US presidency this November, Kushner could again feature prominently in his administration. His comments give a window into what Trump’s policy on Palestine could be during his second term.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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