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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Washington

The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal

Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

For a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East.

As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!”

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