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  • Steve Witkoff: The real estate investor who sealed the Gaza ceasefire

    On Saturday, Gaza ceasefire talks were down to the wire, and President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy wanted to hash out the deal once and for all with Benjamin Netanyahu, but the Israeli leader’s office said he could not be roused during Shabbat.

    Steve Witkoff allegedly gave a “salty” reply, making it clear he didn’t care if it was the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest.

    In the words of one report from Haaretz, Witkoff said Trump expected Israel to agree to the ceasefire, and “things that Netanyahu had termed life-and-death issues…suddenly vanished”.











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    4 days ago

    The chance that Trump will allow this to slip after announcing it on Truth social (the name means everything posted on there is factually true) means that the ceasefire is guaranteed.

    In all seriousness, it is very likely Trump will allow Israel to violate the ceasefire later on. But his ego will never allow him to be dogwalked by Netanynahu the way Biden and Harris were. That ceasefire is coming this sunday unless Israel pulls out a crazy trump card (get it).

    If Trump did not plan to get the Gaza ceasefire he would have simply said nothing, or walked back his words like he did with his Ukraine support.