If we didn’t know before, we certainly know now: Jared Kushner is an idealist. Like so many foreign policy visionaries before him, he has taken up the quixotic pursuit of Middle East peace, introducing an ambitious $50 billion economic plan that would bring together world business leaders to boost jobs, the economy, and the infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza.

The “peace to prosperity” plan, introduced in Bahrain this week, includes 179 infrastructure and business projects and is the “opportunity of the century,” according to Kushner, who has been negotiating the deal for two years.