Jacob Magid – Times of Israel Oct 18, 2025
US President Donald Trump felt the “Israelis were getting a little bit out of control” after Israel’s botched September 9 strike on Hamas’s leadership in Doha, his son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner said in comments broadcast Friday.
The comment came during a joint interview with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The interview with the two architects of the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal will air in full on Sunday.
“I think both Jared and I felt, I just feel we felt a little bit betrayed,” said Witkoff of Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders gathered in the capital of Qatar, a key mediator in the ceasefire negotiations.
“It had a metastasizing effect because the Qataris were critical to the negotiation, as were the Egyptians and the Turks,” said Witkoff. “We had lost the confidence of the Qataris. And so Hamas went underground, and it was very, very difficult to get to them.”
Kushner, referring to Israel, said the strike led Trump to realize “that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid later wrote on X that the interview was an “earthquake” and, referring to Kushner’s latter comment, said that “no Israeli government has ever been described this way by an American administration.”
Exclusive: Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, and special envoy Steve Witkoff give a behind-the-scenes look at the tense moments leading up to the ceasefire and hostage deal after an Israeli bombing threatened to derail the agreement.
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“After the failed attack on Doha, Trump thought Netanyahu had lost control, and imposed a deal on him that Netanyahu didn’t want,” said Lapid, who hailed the Doha strike at the time. “The ’60 Minutes’ interview proves that it could have been arranged for Egypt to govern Gaza and help us fight Hamas. Instead, Netanyahu’s lack of control led to the entry of Turkey and Qatar, two of Hamas’s ideological partners.”
Trump said after the attack on Doha that he was “very unhappy” with Israel about the strike on the “strong” US ally, and that he did not receive a meaningful advance warning from Israel.
He has since committed the US to defend Qatar in case of a future attack, and seen to it that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Qatar for the strike, which failed to kill any of its targets but did kill a few lower-level Hamas members as well as a Qatari guard
With Netanyahu’s approval, Qatar sent in Hamas in Gaza millions of dollars of cash on a monthly basis for years until the terror group stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Top aides to Netanyahu are also under investigation for alleged criminal ties to the Gulf state, with which Israel has no formal ties.
Steve Witkoff is a true statesman. A jewel In Trump’s crown. And so is Jared Kushner. What they have achieved is amazing. Bibi’s cauldron needs to cool down a bit, and think properly before a rush into decisions. But I am confident, Steve and Jared will sort things out moving forward.
LOL..
This Kushner character.. what gives?..when Drumpf first time round, got selected via some electoral college shenanigans..first thing the orange golem does after blowing chief witch clinton a kiss and pardoning a million jewish crime lords..is start handing out and creating lol, ‘jobs’ for the mentally challenged numbskulls in his criminal family..
..this kushner weirdo who’s only claim to fame is his criminal kapo father that bribed harvard to accept the retard, starts being beamed about all over the whirled like mr fucking spock..who it must be said, is the dead spit..
certainly someones made a fucking mistake..I half expect to pop down the village for a pint and find the imbecile lurking behind the bar or stood under some lamp post..trying to negotiate a fucking peace deal someone wrote out for him..so he can get his claws on some free stuff.. to pay for yankers next round of surgical procedures..
dear dear..
“With Netanyahu’s approval, Qatar sent in Hamas in Gaza millions of dollars of cash on a monthly basis for years until the terror group stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.”
Terror group? LOL.
Let’s play dipshit again. What should the arabs do about israhell? Sit back, like you do, and allow it to take over their countries, their land, their lives? Play at “politics”? Wait to be enslaved, replaced and slaughtered? Because that the MO of the jew and all of its minions.
A lot of lies in this article. To set it straight, Hamas going into israehell was all planned – remember the stand down on purpose so the talmud evil cult can once again play victims where mostly they are the perpetrators ( yes, the general public has awaken to this traitorous cult). The killings fo the music festival was done by the talmud evil military cult. This jared and witkoff and that includes drumpt are all criminals and need to be prosecuted and thrown in prison forever.
More bad phony acting from Witkoff & Kushner in the latest Talmud Show episode trying to convince the morons that USrael & Israel aren’t ruled by the same gang of Hebrew scum.
According to a commenter elsewhere, ‘Tommy Robinson will attend the Maccabi Tel Aviv game in Birmingham next month and sit among the Israeli fans! He vowed to never be silent when Jews are under attack! Tommy will also attend a Betar Jerusalem game Monday during his visit to Israel!’
Pissrael is a “little bit out of control”, huh? hahaha sure, and the “official” narratives on 9/11 and the Chump “assassination attempt” are just a little bit suspicious and the Convid-19(84) war on humanity was just a little bit of a totalitarian overreach.
Criminally insane Chabadnik satanic ghoul Jared Kushner and frothing kike psychopath Witkoff both deserve to be thrown into the street, stripped naked, worked over with claw hammers, their teeth bashed out, their tongues ripped out and used to scrub the toilet at a Palestinian refugee camp on spoiled lamb kabob day, their knees, elbows, and ribs shattered, vigorously flogged, rolled in pig shit and salt, then shoved into cages and left to rot.