WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – Former U.S. president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner shouted at the Zionist regime’s ambassador to Washington and kicked him out of the White House in February 2020, according to a new book on Trump’s Middle East dealings.
Kushner was Trump’s senior advisor and was tasked in 2017 with handling Middle Eastern affairs, including the Palestine-Zionist conflict and U.S. ties with Arab countries, mainly in the Persian Gulf.
The details of the heated conversation between Kushner and Ron Dermer, the occupying regime’s then-ambassador in the U.S., were published on Sunday in Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East, a book in Hebrew written by journalist Barak Ravid based on interviews with senior U.S. officials, including Trump.
Ravid describes worsening ties between the Trump administration and ex-Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the latter could not secure a majority in the September 2019 election.
Frustrated, Trump said at the time: “Our relationship is with Israel.”
“That was the beginning of a change of attitude by Trump,” Ravid told The Forward in an interview.
During Trump’s tenure, the U.S. administration unilaterally recognized Al-Quds as the occupying regime’s so-called capital and the regime’s ‘sovereignty’ over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
But that did not help Netanyahu win enough votes to cobble together a majority, and the occupying regime had to go to another election in March 2020.
Just weeks before the election, Dermer met Kushner in the White House and reiterated Netanyahu’s doubts about “whether he could trust the Trump administration”, according to Ravid’s reporting.
Kushner replied angrily: “Don’t be mistaken to think that everything that happened in the past three years was for you. To say such a thing about us is disgusting. Get out,” Kushner screamed at Dermer, according to sections of Ravid’s book quoted by the Forward.
A month before the February meeting, Dermer’s request to meet Trump was greeted with hostility.
“’The president doesn’t like you guys right now,’” Avi Berkowitz, one of Trump’s Middle East officials, reportedly told him.