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.
I hope you’re right that things do actually stop.
I guess I’m just too cynical. I don’t think either Trump or Biden actually give a shit about perpetuating, stopping or even acknowledging genocide. I don’t think they have any ideological alignment other aligning to whichever lobbyist paid the most this week. Selling weapons is normal business for US, and we’ll continue to justify selling weapons whenever there’s money to be made.
There is one factor most Democrats ignore. Unlike Biden, Trump is not ideologically aligned to Israel. Trump will sell out to the highest bidder.
Trump takes Saudi bribes. And MBS would really like to not have this going on. Corruption might just be the salvation.
Or Trump will let Israel continue after 42 days. That too is possible.
Trump moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Just a random thing he did though and means nothing I’m sure, right?
Biden just came out and admitted he let Netanyahu carpet bomb Palestine on video.
Nice non-sequitur. I was responding to this specifically:
So telling me about Biden’s alignment with Israel is really meaningless in this context, isn’t it?
Biden did a full on genocide for Israel. That is infinitely worse.
Try to stay on topic, I know it’s hard…
This is the topic you want to change.
Yeah, it’s definitely not though. We were talking about Trump’s possible allegiances to Israel, and you seem to think he doesn’t have any. That’s ignorant.
I have no problem discussing the genocide being perpetrated on the Palestinian people (and has been ongoing for decades, not something that started a few years ago, btw), but that’s not what was being discussed, so when you change the subject to that it looks like you’re avoiding something.