{"id":257668,"date":"2024-03-25T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=257668"},"modified":"2024-03-21T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:43:47","slug":"trump-son-in-law-jared-kushner-calls-for-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza-to-finish-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/trump-son-in-law-jared-kushner-calls-for-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza-to-finish-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jared Kushner, son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, participates in a discussion in Washington, D.C. on 12 Sep 2022.
(Photo: Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

19 Mar 2024<\/em> – Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, said in a recent interview that if he were in charge of Israeli policy, he would push Gaza<\/a> civilians into Egypt or Israel’s Negev desert\u2014a proposal that critics denounced as ethnic cleansing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You want to get as many civilians out of Rafah as possible,” Kushner told the faculty chair of Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative, Tarek Masoud, in a March 8 interview that was first reported widely<\/a> on Tuesday. “I think that you want to try to clear that out. I know that with diplomacy maybe you get them into Egypt.”<\/p>\n

“I know that that’s been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible,” Kushner added. “But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.”<\/p>\n