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(Saban Forum-Brookings) Jared Kushner interviewed by Haim Saban - U.S. presidential advisor Jared Kushner told the Brookings Institution's Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday: "We don't view a peace agreement as just signing a piece of paper and then hoping everything works out. We're focused on what happens after, and how do you create an environment where ten years down the road the people who are the beneficiaries of the peace have jobs and opportunity that they didn't have before." "I think there are a lot of instances of great trust between Israelis and Palestinians. I think there is not a lot of trust between the leadership and that's what we've been working on....I've been very overwhelmed by all the cases I've seen of Israelis and Palestinians working together and having great relationships and saying, 'Look, if we could only get this thing resolved politically, then we could move on to a much brighter future.'" "As the Middle East has evolved, a lot of these countries look and say they all want the same thing. They want economic opportunity, they want peace for their people, and they look at the regional threats and I think they see that Israel, who was traditionally their foe, is a much more natural ally to them today then perhaps they were 20 years ago, because of Iran, because of ISIS, because of extremism....So you have a lot of people who want to see it put together, but we have to overcome this Israeli-Palestinian issue in order for that to happen."
2017-12-04 00:00:00
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