Jared Kushner on the Beach

‘If you think about all the money that’s gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions,’ asks the Abraham Accords visionary, ‘if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?’

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Jared Kushner waves as he arrives at the Office of the United States Trade Representative for talks on trade with Canada, August 29, 2018, at the District of Columbia. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File

The remarks from President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, that “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods” will be — already is being — met with a storm of criticism. He made the remarks the other week at Harvard, where he also shared that “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.” 

Is he wrong? Not in our view. Hamas’s assault on October 7 and the ensuing war have been catastrophic. Mr. Kushner is being accused of callousness. More like truth telling, in our view, about how Gaza became a terrorist enclave and the folly of envisioning a better future so long as Hamas obtains. Rather than lecture Prime Minister Netanyahu on Rafah, the Biden administration would do better to heed an architect of the Abraham Accords.

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