Melanie Phillips
JNS, Jan. 23, 2025
“For people who set their clock in the seventh century, waiting out four years of Trump is just another small delay that they will try to leverage to their advantage.”
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, has called the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal an “inflection point” for peace in the Middle East.
He told Fox News that he hopes to broaden the Abraham Accords by bringing in every state in the Middle East, including Qatar and Egypt, which he praised for their key roles in negotiating the Gaza ceasefire.
Qatar, he said, had been “enormously helpful in this,” and the communication skills of its prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, had been “indispensable.”
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While the commitment of the new administration to expanding the Abraham Accords—signed in 2020 under the first Trump administration—is a welcome sign, Witkoff’s remarks should provoke no little unease among those who properly understand what Israel is facing. …SOURCE