A “tense” weekend meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and incoming Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff led to a breakthrough in the hostage negotiations, with the top aide to US President-elect Donald Trump doing more to sway the premier in a single sit-down than outgoing President Joe Biden did all year, two Arab officials told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
Witkoff has been in Doha for the past week to take part in the hostage negotiations, as mediators try to secure a deal before Trump’s January 20 inauguration. On Saturday, Witkoff flew to Israel for a meeting with Netanyahu at the premier’s Jerusalem office.
During the meeting, Witkoff urged Netanyahu to accept key compromises necessary for an agreement, the two Arab officials on Monday told The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity. Neither Witkoff nor Netanyahu’s office responded to requests for comment.
lol bullshit. This is showboating political theatrics.
Bibi and Trump are playing their respective games but make no mistake: Bibi already got everything he wanted moving forward. Couldn’t have been more obvious, too, that Bibi and Trump were in direct discussions about preventing a deal pre-election in order to help Trump win.
This is no different than Trump and Putin’s public optics, and no different to how Trump undermined the border security bill.
Why is everyone so hell bent on not giving Trump credit for doing something good?
If Biden truly wanted to achieve this ceasefire, all he had to do was stop sending weapons. It is abundantly clear that Biden did not try to achieve a ceasefire. Nor did Biden have any desire to do so.
Why? Because we can identify propaganda like this very easily. You should consider the following basic questions when you are consuming news. What’s the publisher? Are they reliable? Do they have incentive to lie about this issue? Can we confirm anything that they claim in this article? Who are their sources? Do we know the names of their sources? Do we have any good reason to believe their sources?
In other words, this article doesn’t pass the five second test for reliability.
The ceasefire happened right after Trump sent his envoy to Israel. The article confirms the obvious.
Libs spent the entire election saying “Trump will be worse for palestinians than genocide joe!!!”
Now they’re clinging to their phony predictions like a shipwrecked nostradamus. They can’t accept the obviously truth that their dude is also a brainwashed fascist.
Because if I wasn’t clear the first time, it’s bullshit.
Let’s invoke a thought-experiment and play said hypothetical out:
Stops sending weapons.
Bibi conveniently ignores intelligence if another real or false flag October-7th like attack.
Democrats lose with certainty, accused of both being Antisemitic (by Russian, Israeli bots, AIPAC, etc.) and leaving poor Israel defenseless against evildoer terrorists.
Ah yes. Sound strategy.
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Biden kept sending weapons after he lost the election. And the genocide had been going on long before the election. And it only cost the Democrats votes. You are making up so many bad excuses to avoid facing reality.
Between November 5th and now would have done exactly jack shit. Especially when that would be immediately reversed by Trump anyway. Besides, it’s not as though the Democratic party ceases to exist. What makes you think Israel still wouldn’t do that in order to justify even worse atrocities, then blame Democrats anyway? That’s what’s called a High Risk / Low Reward play.
But nah man, keep believing Trump will be better, or hell even “equally bad.” If you genuinely care about Palestinians, then you’re about to get a wake-up call. Moving the embassy to Jeruselum while telling Bibi to, “Finish the job.” Well, mission accomplished I guess.
Though with anonymity and online astroturfing operations I cannot rule out the viable alternative.
Truly I cannot believe how after all this time and everything Trump and Bibi has done that people are still naive enough to believe they’re acting in good faith and not entirely for political optics. Absolutely remarkable.
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I will take Trump stopping a genocide for optics over Biden not stopping a genocide for optics. But whatever you need to justify your world view.
You could at least wait until he actually stops it before giving him credit. It’s not like he has a history of following through on his promises.
I did. The Israeli government just signed the ceasefire.
Ohhhhh ok well in that case… 🙄
Oh yeah, duh. Because the Israeli government never broke a signed ceasefire before. I forgot. They always do what they say.
Say. Are you interested in sending me money to help build a bridge?
As I said, truly remarkable you trust Arab figures speaking on anonymity and Donald Trump’s word for what he supposedly did.
Tell me, did he “do the weave”? Lmao.
Forgetting you sourced Times of Israel. What a gem. What’s next, RT?
What a colosally flimsy house of cards to build the hill you’re choosing to die on.
You do not understand what the source means.
Israelis are mad about the ceasefire. They are angry at Trump. You just admitted that Biden forcing a ceasefire would earn him criticism from Israel.
Netanyahu is trying to wiggle out of the ceasefire with his classic lies and Trump will not let him. Biden would gladly blame Hamas for another twelve rounds of failed negotiations like he has done for the past year.
No, I said Biden restricting weapons would earn him criticism from Israel, as well as domestically. Huge difference.
To reiterate the dodged points:
Circular Reasoning Fallacy: We have yet to establish that Trump had anything to actually do with the ceasefire beyond unreliable sources, speaking from anonymity, cited by yet another unreliable source controlled by the PM who sought Trump’s reelection in the first place.
Given both Bibi and Trump’s propensity for showboating, this is all political theatrics to make Trump look good. If I was a piece of shit like them, I’d do the same thing.
A ceasefire is utterly meaningless by this point anyway. If you haven’t noticed, Trump told Bibi to “Finish the job,” and Bibi pretty much did. There isn’t much left in gaza to cease firing upon in the first place. The damage is done.
Trump and Bibi are closer than Bibi and Biden. If you can’t grasp this, you will in time.