Kushner slams ‘stupid word games’ in Gaza ceasefire talks on ’60 Minutes’

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, went into particulars on Sunday’s “60 Minutes” about ceasefire negotiations and peace in Gaza after many years of “silly phrase video games” within the area.

Kushner spoke alongside US Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff about their position in serving to to dealer the deal between Israel and Hamas after their two-year struggle. Host Lesley Stahl described the 2 as counting on the “intense private methods of actual property dealmakers,” together with “dangling presidential guarantees, safety or punishment,” versus customary diplomatic methods.

Kushner informed Stahl that the issues had been in the end “easy,” with the problem coming from having to play the “silly phrase video games” created by diplomats.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with US President Donald Trump’s particular envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, on the president’s residence in Jerusalem, Thursday, October 9, 2025. (Courtesy of the Workplace of the President)

“We needed the hostages to return out,” Kushner mentioned. “We needed an actual ceasefire that either side would respect. We wanted a method to get humanitarian help to the folks. After which we needed to write all these complicated phrases to cope with the fifty years of silly phrase video games that everybody in that area is so used to taking part in. Each side needed to attain the purpose. And we simply needed to discover a means to assist everybody obtain that purpose.”

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

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

“What folks name conflicts of curiosity, Steve and I name the expertise and trusted relationships we’ve got all over the world,” Kushner mentioned. “If Steve and I had not had these deep relationships, the deal we had been capable of make that freed these hostages wouldn’t have occurred. We have now trusted relationships within the Arab world and even in Israel, the place we’ve got each achieved enterprise prior to now. However which means they belief us. We perceive their tradition. We perceive how they function. And we will use that data and expertise to attempt to do issues that transfer the world ahead.”

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 within the negotiations. (Alex Wong/Getty Photographs)

“I assumed to myself, ‘I want the world may have seen it,’” Witkoff mentioned. “I want folks may see folks from Qatar hugging folks from Israel. And by the best way, it occurred with the Turks too, and it occurred with the Egyptians, which makes you’re feeling, I do not know, a complete lot higher about what the chances are for the world.”

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire on October 8, about two years after the struggle started in 2023.

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Earlier than the episode aired, Israel accused Hamas of allegedly violating the ceasefire settlement, inflicting the settlement to falter briefly earlier than resuming.