It appears to be a classic case of great minds thinking alike. Nearly a year before President Donald Trump suggested taking over the war-torn Gaza Strip and turning it into a resort on Tuesday, his developer son-in-law said the Hamas haunt could be turned into a Middle Eastern resort.

Trump's vision of a Gaza Strip cleared of Palestinians redeveloped into a beach resort under U.S. control has revived an idea floated by his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Donald Trump's call for rich Arab states to fund an American takeover of Gaza seems tailor-made for Kushner's Affinity Partners

After serving as a senior adviser during her father’s first term in the White House, the first daughter decided to take a step back from politics.

The proposal drew sharp backlash, with many accusing Trump & Kushner of valuing real estate profits over human rights.

President Trump on Tuesday proposed the U.S. could take over the Gaza Strip. Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who took a lead role on Middle East policy during the first Trump administration, made strikingly similar comments to Harvard's Middle East initiative a year ago.

"in Gaza's waterfront property. It could be very valuable. I think from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it,