Kushner's Mideast Moves: Brokering Peace, Launching AI, and Blurring Lines
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Kushner's Mideast Moves: Brokering Peace, Launching AI, and Blurring Lines
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Jared Kushner has been swept back into global headlines this week as a central figure in the White House’s urgent push to stabilize the fragile Israel Hamas ceasefire. Fresh off Sunday’s fiercest wave of Gaza violence since the Trump-brokered agreement, Kushner arrived in Israel late Monday alongside Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to reinforce the deal and roll out phase two of the President’s high-stakes Gaza plan, as reported by ABC News. In a high-profile joint sit-down on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Kushner argued the success of the accord hinges on the international community rapidly fielding a Palestinian police force—he bluntly described this transition as harder even than securing the recent hostage deal with Hamas. Quizzed about the challenge, Kushner didn’t mince words, lamenting that “without an established local Palestinian government or international stabilization mechanism, Hamas is doing exactly what you’d expect—trying to regroup in the chaos.”
On 60 Minutes, Kushner also rejected claims of Israeli genocide and expressed frustration at both decades of “stupid word games” in Mideast peace talks and at Israel’s recent heavy-handed actions, saying Trump himself believes Israel had been “getting a bit out of control” and needed to rein themselves in for their own long-term security—a notable admission carried by CBS and others. Fox News amplified Kushner’s message, showing him adamantly blaming diplomatic inertia for years of bloodshed and positioning the Trump team as decisive dealmakers. Meanwhile, as reported by Drop Site Daily and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Kushner and Witkoff met with Prime Minister Netanyahu to hash out next steps after Hamas militants killed two Israeli soldiers in blatant defiance of the ceasefire—an escalation that rattled the regional status quo and put Kushner’s mediation directly in the spotlight.
On the business front, Kushner made waves with the formal public launch of Brain Co, an enterprise AI startup he co-founded. According to industry newsletter Sourcery and cofounder Elad Gil, the venture just secured a $30 million Series A round led by Gil Capital and Affinity Partners—Kushner’s fund—and already counts strategic partnerships across Fortune 100 companies and even OpenAI. The Brain Co news trended among the tech elite on X, with backers boasting that Kushner is leveraging his dealmaking prowess to take on slow-moving governments, healthcare giants, and energy conglomerates with cutting-edge AI deployments.
Social media chatter has spiked, with clips of Kushner’s 60 Minutes appearance going viral and political commentators dissecting his remarks on both Israeli aggression and the structural roadblocks to Palestinian statehood. Several prominent X accounts noted that his recent trip to Israel was accompanied by reported back-channel negotiations with Gulf states, underscoring his ongoing ambition to expand the Abraham Accords—which Trump publicly announced he expects to draw in Saudi Arabia soon. Finally, policy outlets such as the Arab Center DC and AOL spotlighted Kushner’s deepening business ties with Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, highlighting how his private equity shop Affinity Partners continues to intertwine diplomacy and commerce in the Middle East. No credible reports or substantiated rumors have surfaced of personal controversy or legal trouble in recent days, though speculation persists that his growing Middle East profile could test the boundaries between public diplomacy and private gain.
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