Jared Kushner, who served as senior White House Advisor during the presidential tenure of his father-in-law Donald Trump, earlier this month made a comment on Gaza’s waterfront property, which did not go down well with some quarters.
What Happened: “Gaza's waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in an interview with Harvard Middle East Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud that was aired on March 7.
“All the money that’s gone into this tunnel Network and into all the ammunition if that would have gone into education or innovation what could have been done,” he said referring to the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas militant outfit.
Kushner, who runs the private equity firm Affinity Partners, expressed interest in developing the property. “I think from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up but I ...