Wednesday, January 15, 2025

cheeto forced netanyajoo to accept this deal we're told; 


President-elect Donald Trump reportedly "forced" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a peace deal that will end the Jewish state's war on Gaza and leave Hamas in power.

From Haaretz, "Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected":

Last Friday evening, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, called from Qatar to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides that he would be coming to Israel the following afternoon. The aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night.

Witkoff's blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear.
 Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.

A week before Trump's inauguration, Jerusalem already sees a change in the rules of the game that has broken the deadlock in the hostage negotiations. Unusually, the outgoing Biden administration has let Witkoff lead the process, on the grounds that any obligations the United States undertakes will be incumbent on Trump, not on Biden............more........

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