Jared Kushner Says Israel Should "Finish the Job" in Gaza So It Can Focus on Building Valuable "Waterfront Property"

[Uncle Joe]

In 2017, on the eve of his inauguration, Donald Trump made a bold and unintentionally hilarious prediction: His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was going to bring peace to the Middle East. “If [Jared] can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can,” Trump said, adding, “All my life, I’ve been hearing that’s the toughest deal to make, but I have a feeling Jared is going to do a great job.” Unfortunately, Jared did not do a great job, and failed to even come close to bringing peace to the region, despite reading “25 books” on the topic. Yet, he still apparently believes his insights on the matter are valuable, and recently offered Israel a big piece of advice: It should get rid of everyone in Gaza so it can focus on developing hot “waterfront property” on the strip.

Yes, in a February interview at Harvard that was posted online this month and uncovered by the Guardian on Tuesday, Kushner opined that the Gaza Strip could be “very valuable” from a real estate perspective, if Israel could forcibly remove everyone currently living there to develop “waterfront property.” Speaking to Harvard professor Tarek Masoud, Kushner said: “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.” Where does Kushner suggest these people go? Ivanka Trump’s husband explained that if he were in charge of Israel, his top priority would be removing the people living in Rafah—a Palestinian city in southern Gaza—and moving them into Egypt “with diplomacy.” And that wasn’t his only piece of advice: “In addition to that,” he said, “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 repeated the idea later in the conversation—as well as the words “finish the job”—saying, “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.” Seemingly shocked by the suggestion, Masoud responded, “Is that something that they’re talking about in Israel? I mean, that’s the first I’ve really heard of somebody, aside from [Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi], suggesting that Gazans who are trying to flee the fighting could take refuge in the Negev. Are people in Israel seriously talking about that possibility?”

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Appearing on CNN after Kushner’s comments were reported, Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin told Kaitlan Collins: “My initial reaction is sort of shock…by the sheer callousness and insensitivity at calling it ‘a little unfortunate,’ when 30,000 people have been killed, there was a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of Israelis, the entire region is inflamed, and Jared Kushner’s reaction is, ‘Oh, well, it’s a real shame we couldn’t put some condos here.’ But if you put that aside, what we see is a preview into what a Trump administration Israel policy would really look like, and Jared Kushner said the quiet part out loud: that he thinks we should ‘move the people out and clean it up.‘ And if that’s not exactly a call for forced displacement of 2 million Palestinians and ethnic cleanings in Gaza, it’s pretty close…and that is a really troubling prospect for an American administration.”

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/jared-kushner-israel-gaza-waterfront-property

[Lunabell]

1. What a sick puppy!

Just murder the innocent women and children so his billionaire ass can invest in some cushy waterfront resort for his billionaire buddies. Sick fuck!!!!

[Lonestarblue]

2. In other words, complete the genocide of the Palestinians and pursue profits from their land.

Israel does not own Gaza. Ideas like this do nothing but enrage people. Of course, Kushner seems to think that he is God’s gift to the world. What a despicable dweeb.

[people]

3. Jared Kushner --

A Truly Horrible Person.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Hate to say it but

people can get hurt for saying things like that.

[2naSalit]

5. This info should get a lot of views.

I hope he ends up in prison too.

[AloeVera]

6. As disgusting as this is....

It's not far from mainstream views in Israel, which is actually scarier than what comes out of slum landlord Kushner's mouth.

[Uncle Joe]

7. I believe that we're largely shaped

consciously and subconsciously by our information sources.

Of course that begs the question, what do those information sources value?

I'm not talking about marketing or pubic relations either, but actual content or lack thereof critical issues affecting the people, American or Israeli.

Was the hard reality of daily life in Gaza covered over the past decade and a half with any attempt to humanize the Palestinian People or was it just approaching all related issues toward the Palestinians in Gaza as part of "terrorism?"

From what I have read, it wasn't and that's why the movie about the wall between the Commandant of Auschwitz's house and the concentration camp was so potent.

[dflprincess]

8. I wonder if he's promised Bibi a piece of the action.

It would explain a lot.

[applegrove]

9. Does Jared Know Gaza dumps untreated sewage in the Mediterranian?