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PALESTINIAN PARADISE: Jared Kushner Praises “Very Valuable” Potential Of Gaza’s Waterfront Property

Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area.

“Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in an interview dated Feb. 15, posted earlier this month on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and reported first on Tuesday by The Guardian. “If you think about all the money that’s gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?”

“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner added. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.”

Responding Tuesday on X to “those dishonestly using selected parts” of his remarks, Kushner posted a video of the entire interaction, saying he stood by his comments “and believe the Palestinian people’s lives will improve ONLY when the international community and their citizenry start demanding accountability from their leadership.”

About 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, as Israel looks to eliminate Hamas following the militant group’s deadly Oct. 7 attack. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 70,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip since Israel’s war on Hamas began.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss a prospective Rafah operation with Biden administration officials.

The agreement to hold such talks came as President Joe Biden and Netanyahu spoke Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over the food crisis in Gaza and Israel’s conduct during the war, according to the White House. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the talks will happen in the coming days and are expected to involve military, intelligence and humanitarian experts.

In the interview last month, Kushner also suggested that getting civilians out of Rafah and potentially into Egypt, might be possible “with the right diplomacy,” also positing a plan for the the Negev desert in southern Israel.

Additionally, Kushner suggested that he “would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” adding: “I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that’s a better option to do, so you can go in and finish the job.”

“I think Israel’s gone way more out of their way than a lot of other countries would, to try to protect civilians from casualties,” Kushner added.

The debate over the Israel-Hamas war has developed into a major theme of this year’s U.S. presidential election, drawing dividing lines between Biden and Trump, as well as within their own parties.

Asked in an interview Monday about Democrats’ growing criticism of Netanyahu over his handling of the war in Gaza, Trump charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.

He doubled down on those remarks Tuesday, telling reporters in Florida that “the Democrats have been very, very opposed to Jewish people.” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meanwhile, gave a speech from the Senate floor calling Trump’s comments “utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of antisemitism facing Jews.”

Kushner worked on a wide range of issues and policies in the Trump administration, including Middle East peace efforts. Noting that he is not interested in rejoining the White House if Trump — who last week became the presumptive GOP nominee — wins the 2024 presidential election, Kushner said last month that he was focused on his investment business and his living with his family in Florida out of the public eye.

(AP)



6 Responses

  1. Schumer is an idiot!!! He has it exactly backwards
    Trump is DEAD right (again)
    It’s those Jewish (probably erev rav) Democrat supporters who are the antisemites here, not Trump

  2. The only one whose comments are ‘utterly disgusting’ here is Schumer himself!!

    What a chutzpah to call for the removal of the democratically elected prime minister of Israel, who has the support of a ridiculously massive majority of his people as proven by that vote in the knesset on the two-state ‘delusion’, the pathetic policy the Democratic party is still clinging to, just because he has the sechel to see how twistedly wrong the Democrats are

    What an even bigger chutzpah to then turn around and accuse Trump – the most pro-Jews and pro-Israel President the US has EVER had – of antisemitism??? Trump was DEAD ON with what he said

    What an chillul H’ that guy is as a Jew, I really hope Jewish leaders in the US call him out for that BIG TIME

  3. Until when will YWN bring the filthy fraudulent AP articles to us Jews?

    We want honest reporting of NEWS not fake phony gossip!!!

  4. This is written by someone named Meg. Meg didn’t even wait to throw in her assumptions and wishful thinking. It’s in the first line. And they call this news?
    Never will I forget when I used to watch the Trump rally’s, I would see articles posted moments later with quotes and suggestions on things I did not even hear. Each and every time.
    Gaza is a beach town. Some of them surf and fish. For ever we were told they had the potential to be a Singapore if they wanted to. Meg didn’t know any of this before given the task to write news. This is gross malpractice.

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