Kushner’s memoirs: Washington pressured Saied to dismiss pro-Palestine UN ambassador

Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the White House in Washington, DC on 13 August 2020 [Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images]

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, revealed in his memoirs that the Trump administration pressured Tunisian authorities to dismiss former Tunisian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Moncef Baati. The reason behind the dismissal was that in 2020, he prepared a draft resolution condemning the "deal of the century" proposed by Trump. Political analyst and researcher at Wesleyan University, Mohamed Dhia Hammami, commented on Kushner's memoirs, Breaking History: "In his new book, Jared Kushner says that Baati's dismissal came after an American complaint – via Avi Berkowitz (the former US envoy for peace in the Middle East) – to the Tunisian ambassador to Washington at the time and the caretaker prime minister, Youssef Chahed. Kushner explains […] Source

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