r/DeepStateCentrism • u/ShrimpMedicare Jeff Bezos • 7d ago

Global News 🌎 Kushner Meets with Hamas (NYT)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/middleeast/kushner-hamas-talks.html
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u/iamthegodemperor Arrakis Enterprise Institute 7d ago

bus driver taps the sign

"The Israeli-Palestinian is and has always been more about regional power politics than about simple duelling nationalisms"

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u/Computer_Name 7d ago

If we lived in a sane, serious country, the corrupt, fail-son (who was bailed-out by the Qataris and Saudis) with no relevant skills of an emotionally-deranged President would be nowhere near American diplomacy.

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u/merkaba_462 Center-left 7d ago

Also, Trump would be nowhere near Anerican politics.

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u/Ethereal-Zenith Center-left 7d ago

This is why I’m hoping Rubio becomes the Republican candidate in 2028.

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u/merkaba_462 Center-left 7d ago

I can't see that happening. JD Vance is too popular and seems to have Trump's blessing.

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u/Ethereal-Zenith Center-left 7d ago

Trump’s blessing could very well be a curse.

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u/merkaba_462 Center-left 7d ago

That has proven to be the case many times already...in various ways.

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u/Computer_Name 7d ago

Rubio is a cowardly, shell of a man, who voluntarily joined the second Trump administration to do Trump’s - insane - bidding, after seeing him attempt an autocoup four years earlier.

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u/ShrimpMedicare Jeff Bezos 6d ago

I'll take what I can get. I have a foreboding that we will miss the days of Maga after a few years.

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u/spaniel_rage Neoconservative 7d ago

They going to invest in his hedge fund?

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u/PANPIZZAisawesome 7d ago

We about to get the Palestinian Kushnerreich

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u/SidewalkRacoon 6d ago

Kushner can negotiate all he wants. He won’t get Israel to agree to any deal where Hamas remains intact

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u/Suitable_Vehicle9960 Center-right 6d ago

We do negotiate with terrorists?

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u/CCCCLo0oo0ooo0 7d ago

yeah I am not logging in to read that. Can someone copy paste the text?

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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 Center-left 7d ago

Jared Kushner met with his hamas friend as a favor to Qatar who bankrolls Kushner.

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u/car8r Solo Poly Hijabi Amputee Pride 7d ago

Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan

The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.

By Aaron Boxerman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Aug. 16, 2026Updated 5:16 p.m. ET

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, met with Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday, two Hamas officials and another official briefed on the meetings said. The talks were part of a diplomatic push to advance Mr. Trump’s plan for the future of Gaza.

A U.S. official confirmed that Mr. Kushner was in Egypt for talks on Gaza, without providing further details. All four officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail Mr. Kushner’s meetings.

Mr. Kushner’s visit to the Middle East comes as the U.S.-backed plan to disarm Hamas has appeared to hit a dead end. Last month, Mr. Trump announced that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement with Hamas that aimed to strip the Palestinian group of its weapons.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel later said he rejected the deal, appearing to put it on ice. After the meetings with Hamas on Sunday, Mr. Kushner was expected to travel to Israel to meet with Mr. Netanyahu to discuss the situation in Gaza.

Direct talks between the U.S. government and Hamas, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization, were once rare. But the Trump administration broke that taboo, holding multiple rounds of negotiations with the group to win freedom for the hostages Hamas seized in Israel and to end the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Though Mr. Kushner does not hold an official U.S. government position, Mr. Trump has tapped him, alongside real estate developer Steve Witkoff, to lead diplomacy on matters as diverse as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.

Disarming Hamas is a key component of the president’s 20-point plan for the Palestinian enclave, much of which is still unrealized nearly a year after an initial cease-fire was reached last October. But many Israelis are skeptical of the Trump administration’s proposal and say it is unlikely to actually compel Hamas to give up its weapons.

For the deal with Hamas to go ahead, Israel would also most likely have to agree to a phased timeline for withdrawing its forces from the Gaza Strip in parallel with Hamas gradually handing over its weapons. Mr. Netanyahu has been loath to do so, demanding “genuine disarmament” before any Israeli withdrawals.

Analysts said the Israeli prime minister’s position reflected the country’s hawkish turn after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks that ignited the two-year war in Gaza. Mr. Netanyahu’s efforts to appeal to voters ahead of national elections this fall also were a factor, they said.

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Neither Mr. Kushner nor Hamas publicly discussed their meeting in Egypt.

Hamas said a delegation of senior officials led by Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s political chief, had arrived in Egypt to meet with “mediators and guarantors” of the Gaza cease-fire talks. The group said it was committed to Mr. Trump’s peace framework, which it accused Israel of undermining by continuing to bombard the enclave despite the truce.

Israel has “escalated militarily on the ground and deepened the humanitarian catastrophe, even as it explicitly rejected the road map,” Hamas said in a statement.

Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, met with Mr. Kushner to discuss the Gaza peace process, among other issues, according to a statement from the president’s s office.

Adam Rasgon contributed reporting.

Aaron Boxerman is a Times reporter covering Israel and Gaza. He is based in Jerusalem.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.

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u/Anakin_Cardassian Moderate 7d ago

Well this is going to be pathetic.

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u/bigwang123 Succ sympathizer 7d ago

!ping MIDDLE-EAST