{"id":20591,"date":"2025-04-19T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/?p=20591"},"modified":"2025-04-19T08:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:13:04","slug":"trump-envoy-says-gaza-ceasefire-could-pave-way-for-mideast-normalization-deal-inflection-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/trump-envoy-says-gaza-ceasefire-could-pave-way-for-mideast-normalization-deal-inflection-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy says Gaza ceasefire could pave way for Mideast normalization deal: ‘Inflection point’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ceasefire deal a step to normalization in Middle East, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff says<\/a><\/h4>\n

Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on the hostage and ceasefire deal and President Trump’s remark that he’s ‘not confident’ the deal will hold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff<\/a> believes the long-awaited Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal is one step closer to normalization in the Middle East, and the administration has the opportunity to get “everyone” in the region on board with the idea.<\/p>\n

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“I think this is an inflection point,” Witkoff said on “America’s Newsroom,” Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I think you could get everybody on board in that region. I think there’s a new sense of leadership over there. Qatar was enormously helpful in this. Sheikh Mohammed, plenty of his communication skills with Hamas were indispensable here, so I think the UAE is already a part of it. Egypt was very helpful to us in these endeavors.”<\/p>\n

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“I think we have the opportunity to get everybody bought in to a better future for the region \u2013 more opportunity, more hope,” he added.<\/p>\n

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PM Netanyahu Meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.<\/span> (Photo by Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Witkoff, a former real estate tycoon, is credited for being President Trump’s man in the room during efforts to broker the complex deal that has seen the return of three female hostages thus far.<\/p>\n

Additional phases of the deal should see more releases, though President Donald Trump<\/a> is doubtful the ceasefire will hold as intended.<\/p>\n

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“I\u2019m not confident. It\u2019s not our war, it\u2019s their war,” Trump said from the Oval Office, when asked by a reporter whether the ceasefire would hold and last through three planned phases. “I looked at a picture of Gaza \u2013 Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is, it\u2019s really, it\u2019s got to be rebuilt in a different way.”<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Trump stated he is “not confident” the ceasefire deal will hold \u00a0as hoped.<\/span> (JIM WATSON\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Witkoff said he doesn’t disagree with Trump and that the “implementation” of the deal will likely be more challenging than its “execution.”<\/p>\n

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“That was a big step\u2026. We had to get it done, and we did, thank God, and now we’ve got implement [it],” he added, saying that he will be traveling to Israel to work on the implentation of the ceasefire that will hopefully lead to further hostage releases.<\/p>\n

“I’m actually going to be going over to Israel.<\/a> I’m going to be a part of an inspection team at the Netzarim corridor and also in the Philadelphi corridor. That’s where you have outside overseers making sure that people are safe and people who are entering are not armed and no one has bad motivations, but we have to make sure that the implementation goes well.<\/p>\n

“If it goes well, we’ll get into phase two, and we’re going to get a lot more live bodies out, and I think that’s what the president’s directive to me and everybody else working in the American government on this [is], and that’s what we’re going to do.”<\/p>\n

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Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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