Linda Goudsmit: I cannot say this often enough, strong enough, or loud enough: Neither Jared Kushner nor Steve Witkoff should be negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of President Trump and the United States. Kushner and Witkoff are not America 1st MAGA representatives, they are both self-serving real estate developers more interested in personal profits than American national security.
Things are different in the ME. Islamic religious doctrine is paramount. The only benefit of lucrative business deals for Islamic countries is that the profits finance the 1400-year unchanged goal of Islamic religious doctrine which is to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate. The royal families in Islamic countries are worried about being overthrown by their sharia compliant Islamic populations. So, what they say in English to the West and what they say in Arabic to their Muslim populations are not the same. The only country in the ME that shares Western Judeo-Christian values, morality, and culture is the tiny, democratic, Jewish State of Israel––our natural, cultural, and strategic ally and partner for peace.
For Kushner and Witkoff to court Islamic countries at the expense of Israel is a short-sighted, catastrophic cultural, strategic, and tactical error. Regime change in Iran that ousts its terrorist Islamic theocracy is what brings peace and prosperity to the ME––but the globalist elite do not want peace and prosperity because neverending wars are a cash cow for them. The globalist elite are the enemies of freedom who support Iranian hegemony in the ME because it guarantees a neverending income stream. And the Kushner/Witkoff “peace deals” guarantee neverending wars because their “peace partners” are doctrinal enemies of the State of Israel and of the United States of America!
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Jared Kushner in the West Wing Lobby of the White House, Monday, September 29, 2025. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Link
An important article by World Israel News describes Jared Kushner as having emerged as the key figure pressing Israel to accommodate the new US-backed Gaza roadmap, which should be notably recalled to have retooled and reordered Trump’s original 20-Point Plan so as to accomodate Hamas in coordination with Qatar, Turkey and Egypt. The WIN article also details that President Donald Trump has specifically refrained from pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the growing dispute with his son-in-law, but has publicly given his support for the Roadmap.
Israeli officials indicate that the disagreement between Kushner and Netanyahu relates to Netanyahu’s objections to linking a gradual disarmament of Hamas to simultaneously phased IDF withdrawals. Netanyahu maintains that, as indicated in Trump’s 20-Point Plan, Hamas must be completely stripped of its weapons before any IDF withdrawal takes place.
Kushner has personally engaged with both Netanyahu and Palestinian intermediaries in an effort to push the initiative forward. Despite this, in a recent conversation, Netanyahu told Kushner he did not believe Hamas would ultimately disarm but was willing to give the US-backed plan a chance. Netanyahu reportedly agreed to restrict Israeli strikes to immediate threats and refrain from pushing IDF forces west of the Yellow Line while the process is tested. Following meetings with Board of Peace envoy Nikolay Mladenov, Israel substantially scaled back attacks on Hamas, restricting the IDF to responding to immediate threats rather than carrying out the daily targeted killings that had previously occurred. Former Palestinian Authority security chief Mohammad Dahlan, who has been proposed my some for a future role in Gaza’s leadership, stated that Kushner confirmed Israel agreed to stop attacks after Hamas and other Palestinian factions accepted the 15-point document.
The US administration remains unconcerned by Netanyahu’s public rejection of the roadmap, viewing it partly as a product of Israel’s approaching October election despite the reports of nearly hourly violations being committed by Hamas. Israel is providing the US with daily dossiers of alleged Hamas violations, including weapons transfers and explosive devices, to argue the plan cannot be safely implemented as it stands written. Nonetheless, as Washington’s primary concern remains fixated on Israel’s continued compliance in restraining its operations in Gaza, Washington is simultaneously ignoring the real time effect which this restraint is having with regards to Hamas reacting to that restraint.
Beyond this, the 15-point roadmap provides for a phased process where weapons are decommissioned as Israeli forces progressively withdraw from Gaza, which leaves Hamas present in the area with arms and therefore influence over the situation emerging, which should be free of ALL influence from Hamas.
Netanyahu’s office has adopted a harder tone privately, dismissing US expectations that Israel should proceed with the process as being “dreams,” even as negotiations regarding these matters are still ongoing.
The Board of Peace signaled that Netanyahu’s rejection has not stopped the initiative, stating the plan is very much still operative and advancing, with implementation proceeding only after commitments are verified. Meanwhile, President Trump has avoided turning disagreements into a personal rupture, stating his relationship with Netanyahu remains “very good.”
Never understood why Trump used US enemies as intermediaries for dealing with Iran.
Everything is not transactional when dealing with evil.
I cannot say this often enough, strong enough, or loud enough: Neither Jared Kushner nor Steve Witkoff should be negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of President Trump and the United States. Kushner and Witkoff are not America 1st MAGA representatives, they are both self-serving real estate developers more interested in personal profits than American national security.
Things are different in the ME. Islamic religious doctrine is paramount. The only benefit of lucrative business deals for Islamic countries is that the profits finance the 1400-year unchanged goal of Islamic religious doctrine which is to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate. The royal families in Islamic countries are worried about being overthrown by their sharia compliant Islamic populations. So, what they say in English to the West and what they say in Arabic to their Muslim populations are not the same. The only country in the ME that shares Western Judeo-Christian values, morality, and culture is the tiny, democratic, Jewish State of Israel––our natural, cultural, and strategic ally and partner for peace.
For Kushner and Witkoff to court Islamic countries at the expense of Israel is a short-sighted, catastrophic cultural, strategic, and tactical error. Regime change in Iran that ousts its terrorist Islamic theocracy is what brings peace and prosperity to the ME––but the globalist elite do not want peace and prosperity because neverending wars are a cash cow for them. The globalist elite are the enemies of freedom who support Iranian hegemony in the ME because it guarantees a neverending income stream. And the Kushner/Witkoff “peace deals” guarantee neverending wars because their “peace partners” are doctrinal enemies of the State of Israel and of the United States of America!
@Linda Goudsmit
Thank you for making this point. I added your comment as a preface to my article.
There is one country which has been left out since the 20 point plan was agreed on. Israel. As long as Israel is not publicly and officially consulted, the 15 point plan is an agreement without Israel and thus not, in the slightest, binding.
Just to make sure this point gets across properly, Israel was winning this war until Trump intervened to avoid further damage. Since then, Hamas has been boasting about having won the war. That needs to be finally and conclusively corrected.