Kushner slams 'silly phrase video games' in Gaza ceasefire talks on '60 Minutes'

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President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, dove into particulars on Sunday's "60 Minutes" about negotiating the Gaza ceasefire deal and peace, following many years of "silly phrase video games" within the area.

Kushner spoke alongside U.S. Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff about their function in serving to to perform the deal between Israel and Hamas after their two-year conflict. Host Lesley Stahl described the 2 as counting on the "intensely private methods of actual property dealmakers" which included "dangling presidential guarantees, protections or punishments" versus normal diplomatic methods.

Kushner informed Stahl that the problems have been in the end "easy," with the problem coming from having to play the "silly phrase video games" introduced upon by diplomats.

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"We wished the hostages to come back out," Kushner mentioned. "We wished an actual ceasefire that either side would respect. We would have liked a option to convey humanitarian support into the individuals. After which we needed to write all these advanced phrases to take care of the 50 years of silly phrase video games that everybody in that area is so used to taking part in. Each side wished the target. And we simply wanted to discover a manner to assist everybody get there."

Throughout the interview, Stahl pressed Kushner and Witkoff about their previous enterprise offers with Center East nations and whether or not they represented a battle of curiosity.

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U.S. President Donald Trump poses with the signed settlement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza conflict, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters )

"What individuals name conflicts of pursuits, Steve and I name expertise and trusted relationships that now we have all through the world," Kushner mentioned. "If Steve and I did not have these deep relationships, the deal we have been capable of get completed, that freed these hostages wouldn't have occurred. We've got trusted relationships within the Arab world and even in Israel, the place we have each completed enterprise prior to now. However meaning they belief us. We perceive their cultures. We perceive how they work. And we're in a position to make use of that data and ability set to attempt to do issues that advance the world."

Witkoff additionally confirmed to Stahl that Israelis and Qataris actually hugged one another after a deal was made.

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Jared Kushner argued that his enterprise expertise within the Center East helped with negotiations. (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)

"I believed to myself, ‘I want the world might've seen it,’" Witkoff mentioned. "I want individuals might see individuals from Qatar hugging individuals from Israel. And by the way in which, it occurred with the Turks too, and it occurred with the Egyptians, which form of, I do not know, makes you are feeling a complete lot higher about what the chances are for the world."

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal on Oct. 8, about two years after the conflict started in 2023.

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Earlier than the episode aired, Israel accused Hamas of reportedly violating the ceasefire settlement which precipitated the settlement to briefly falter earlier than resuming.

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