Ron Dermer refuted two of Kushner’s key allegations that have proven embarrassing to Binyamin Netanyahu
A week before Jared Kushner’s White House memoir hits the bookstores, Ron Dermer refuted two of Kushner’s key allegations that have proven embarrassing to Binyamin Netanyahu.
While Kushner alleges that Netanyahu was unenthusiastic about former president Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and that Bibi jumped the gun in announcing US approval of Israeli sovereignty over large swaths of Judea and Samaria, Dermer contends Bibi supported the embassy move from “beginning to end” and that sovereignty was agreed to in an exchange of letters between Trump and Bibi.
Dermer served as Israel’s ambassador to the US during the Obama and Trump administrations. Speaking on the Diplomatically Incorrect podcast circulated by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), Dermer said he personally delivered Bibi’s letter to Kushner on the eve of Trump’s White House announcement launching his “deal of the century” for Middle East peace and that Kushner handed Trump’s letter of approval to Netanyahu.
Dermer said that Netanyahu, in the middle of an election campaign, would never have traveled to Washington for Trump’s announcement — which called for Israel’s acceptance of a two-state solution and a building freeze in areas designated for a future Palestinian state — unless he knew he could bring this prize back home.
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