"At first outraged by the strike and the destabilization it could cause, Trump's advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner soon saw the crisis as an opportunity to end the war, four sources with direct knowledge tell Axios. They noticed that "the Arabs were speaking with one voice," even if it was to shout at Israel, a Trump adviser familiar with the discussions told Axios. "It became clear, particularly to Steve, that this rallying cry that seemed negative at first could be turned into something positive.""
"Behind the scenes: After getting a green light from Trump, Witkoff and Kushner started working on a plan to end the crisis over Qatar and parlay that into a bigger deal to end the war in Gaza. They took the existing U.S. proposal for ceasefire and hostage deal and combined it with a post-war plan Kushner had worked on with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair."
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reacted with outrage to an Israeli strike in Doha but reframed the crisis as an opportunity to end the Gaza war. They met Ron Dermer a day earlier about the Gaza peace process and felt deceived when the strike occurred, prompting Qatar to suspend mediation and lobby against Israel. Witkoff advised an apology to Qatar and movement toward peace in Gaza, but Dermer resisted. With Trump's approval, Witkoff and Kushner combined a U.S. ceasefire and hostage proposal with a post-war plan developed with Tony Blair into a 21-point document. Qatar proposed a New York summit.
Read at Axios
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]