Jared Kushner: Our Mid-East Peace Team Is Unconventional

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KUSHNER: “You are wondering why they never had a bankruptcy lawyer working on this before. There are a lot of real estate issues related to it. We have Dina Powell who has been very instrumental. Her family is Egyptian. She speaks Arabic. She has been instrumental in helping us develop a regional aspirational economic plan on what can happen post-peace. We don’t view the peace agreement upon just a peace of paper. But we are focused on what happens after. How do you create an environment where 10 years down the road the beneficiaries of the peace have opportunities they didn’t have before. There is a lot of trust in the team. The fact that we are so close, there have been no leaks, it has been a lot of hesitancy from both sides to explore ideas with us in a way that would be constructive to come to conclusions. When they saw nothing would leak out and we can have open and honest die losing and we were listening to what they had to say and how they thought things could be resolved. We saw the conversations open up.”