Jared Kushner Sure Seems Excited About “Very Valuable” Beachfront Properties in Gaza – By Inae Oh (Mother Jones) / March 19, 2024
The former president’s son-in-law also wants to move Palestinians into Egypt or southern Israel.
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Amid the catastrophic bombing and imminent famine that overwhelms Gaza, Jared Kushner apparently sees something entirely different: desirable properties.
Kushner—ever the aspirational foreign policy expert with a penchant for a good conflict of interest—told Harvard University earlier this month that Gaza’s beachfront locations “could be very valuable.” His remarks come as Israel and Egypt look for long-term solutions to the war, which has killed at least 30,000 Palestinians in five months.
“Gaza’s waterfront property,” Kushner said in footage first reported by the Guardian. “It could be very valuable to—if people would focus on kind of building up, you know, livelihoods. 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.”
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.
