J. Kushner’s “Deal of the Century, 2.0”

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a global leadership summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

When President Trump a half-decade ago tasked his son-in-law to design a two-state solution that would be the “Deal of the Century,” since I knew nothing of Jared Kushner, I wanted to know of his experience of Israel, the Arab world and Islam, academic, practical.

And when I learned next to nothing of these things in his biography, aside from a business deal or two, I thought the President, like other gentiles, seems to think every Jew knows what is best for Israel. After all, Jared was nominally an Orthodox Jew, having attended Jewish schools pre-Harvard, where he matriculated after a less than stellar record at the Frisch School. He got into Harvard only because his low-life criminal real estate mogul of a father shmeared the school with $2.5 million, the Harvard famous for its gargantuan endowment and not above playing the prostitute for even more cash.

Son Jared may also deserve the description low-life and here’s why: This business of insisting the Qataris and the Turks have power in Gaza, these well-known host countries of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas, just like Qatar, when the prime minister of the Israeli people explicitly said no way, is obnoxious. It is a shameless breaking of one’s word, by this arrogant pipsqueak who thinks he knows better than the prime minister of Israel how to deal with the Arabs.

How did it happen that the born-gain Jewish commonwealth is now under attack by a well-intentioned goy ignoramus, Trump, and two Jews equally clueless about the Hamitic enemy?

The enemy is neither the “Palestinians” nor the “Gazans.” Those are verbal veils, mental smokescreens. The enemy is Islam, but neither President Trump, nor son-in-law Jared, nor Donald’s charmless golf partner Steve Witkoff, know this.

The other day Witkoff announced the “launch of Phase Two… We’ve talked to a number of Hamas people and we’re hearing throughout the Arab world that that people don’t want war anymore. They want peace. They want a better economic future for their families. They want credible homes… They want what everybody else in this world wants – just a good life and a good life doesn’t occur through military means.’”

And I am embarrassed as an American and a Jew for the ignorance of this man about the Arab character and Islam, and his cowardly inability to accept just how anti the truth his bromide is that “they’re just like us.” No, they are not just like us. When was the last time an Israeli mob of thousands invaded an Arab settlement in Israel, there is no shortage of them, to fire their weapons into the genitalia of the locals, to rape, torture and mutilate them with utmost cruelty and pain, kidnap some and starve them?

It is hard for some civilized people to see these Arabs for who they really are and how they use their Islam to do justify their sadistic, pre-Islamic antediluvian cruelty. There is an abyss separating civilized people from these ethical Neanderthals that is unbridgeable.

I know personally that I am capable of shooting dead a man who comes to murder me, but not never would I first want to satanically torture him. The other day, TV news broadcast video of Hamas “police” in a Gaza street wielding baseball bat-sized clubs, beating men on the ground, mercilessly, deliberately trying to break their bones. In this society, the rulers pay policemen who also have to the right inflict punishment.

Remember that the most recent rebellious period in Iran since 1979 was ignited by the arrest of a woman for not wearing her hijab/head-covering properly during which detention her captors beat her to death. And no less, October 7, was a homicidal orgy of torture and murder sanctioned by the perpetrators’ Islamic religion.

It is a lie that Hamas guys “want a good life and better economic future for their families.” What they want is to repeat October 7 again and again.

As they dream of Muslim paradise where a shahid/martyr gets to rape virgins 24-7 for all eternity, so for them October 7 was a religious bacchanal of hysterical men seized with a kind of spiritual rabies making them want to do to the Jews what was done that day again and again.

What an embarrassment to America and the Jewish people are Witkoff and partner Jared Kushner, real estate moguls, and the latter the son of a convicted felon for “illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering,” disbarred in three states. Kushner, Sr. was also convicted of hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law by arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister. He was sentenced to two years in prison and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery, in Alabama.

Son Jared was in his senior year of high school at the time with inferior test scores. But since his father shmeared Harvard with $2.5 million, Jared enrolled in this once admired school, famous for its gargantuan endowment and not above playing the prostitute for more cash.

Like Kushner, Sr., junior also deserves the label of low-life and here’s why: This business of insisting the Qataris and the Turks have power in Gaza when the prime minister of the Israeli people explicitly said no way, is obnoxious. It is a shameless breaking of one’s word by this arrogant pipsqueak who thinks he knows better than the prime minister of Israel how to deal with the Arabs. And as his father was less than above board in his business, so Jared, the nominal Orthodox Jew, sides with these two bastions of Islamic hatred of Israel and the West.

Likewise, his cohort Witkoff who launched his “second phase” after agreeing to Netanyahu’s two conditions of first disarming Hamas and returning the remains of Ran Gvili. All’s fair in love and war in business for smarmy toads like Witkoff, Kushner and Trump no less. What they just did supports the rumours about “The Donald’s” business ethics that were less than immaculate. One was that he appointed David Friedman his ambassador to Israel who had been Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer for numerous ones in The Donald’s business career.

My advice to Israel’s Prime Minister: Donald Trump is a bully and bullies have to be stood up to. Israel has just been insulted big time, including calling him “Bibi.” He in turn should riposte in kind, referring to “Donald” as his long-time friend and an ally in battle who is still human and not above mis-speaking. In Israel, many intelligent people think Messrs. Kushner and Witkoff have no credentials as experts on the Middle East, its peoples and cultures. For them, the Middle East is business. The Arabs have mountains of money, and religion need play no role in business in their minds.

Trump & Co. must be told Gaza has been fought over by Israelis. Over 77 years, thousands of IDF have died there, but no American soldier. Israel loves Donald Trump for his great support but this does not allow him to crown himself Emperor of the Gaza Strip.

Israelis have given their lives for control of this tiny sliver of beach front property. and in any case, in international gentile law, Gaza belongs to Israel, not the president of the United States. The Prime Minister of Israel has wrongly never said a word in public about the U.N. Charter of 1945, Chapter 80, that validates Jewish ownership of Gaza’s real estate, indeed, all the land “from the river to the sea.”

Sad to say, the current administration in Washington has an ugly side. This insult in claiming the right to insert Turks and Qataris onto dry land within sight of Jewish homes is an abomination of ignorance, disrespect and dishonesty, echoing the gossip about Trump’s less than spotless business ethics. They are just three greed-heads incapable of fathoming the depth of hatred of Israel by our Muslim neighbors. They are deaf and blind to the fact that the “Palestinian cause” is a verbal smokescreen, a political ruse.

Israel is the victim of the Muslims’ timeless jihad which is not a normal war for conquest of territory but the conquest of their victims’ minds, insisting on pain of death the whole world believe Mohammad was the greatest prophet ever.

Israel’s prime minister has to stand up, nose-to-nose, with these bullies and politely tell them, “You do not understand these people better than we Jews who live here. This business of inviting scores of nations to join your fantasy future for Gaza that borders our tiny country is disrespectful in the extreme that we reject. You agreed to disarm Hamas and return the final remains of a Jew murdered by these brutes and we will hold you to your promise because we have no choice. We are fighting for our survival and you are not.”

The media report on the friction between Kushner and Israel over keeping the Rafiah passage closed? This is the same Kushner, Jr. tasked by his father-in-law to design a two-state solution map, the “Deal of the Century!” which he did that quickly vanished from the news.

Israel must resist this insult, make an issue of it. This is no way to treat an ally, no way to treat anybody.

Israel must publicly claim Gaza and the right to evict the enemy population. Prime Minister Netanyahu must be encouraged to tell Washington and the world that no less than the U.N Charter recognizes Jewish sovereignty there. It would also be fun to confront that antisemitic worm of a U.N. Secretary-General Guterres to his face with this text and watch him squirm.

This won’t be easy for Mr. Netanyahu still clings to his dream of the Abraham Accords enticing in all the enemy Arab states who want to make money big time –and to Hell with Islam’s endemic hatred of Jews.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.