Former Israeli hostage and peace negotiator Gershon Baskin highlights the unprecedented cooperation between President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration and President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration in working toward a ceasefire in Gaza.
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00:00Yeah, you mentioned President Trump and we were just reading a report by Middle East
00:04expert Nomi Bar-Yakov saying that this deal between Hamas and Israel is very much driven
00:11by the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
00:15That seems to be sort of driving the timeline.
00:17Sounds like you agree with that.
00:18Well, certainly.
00:19I mean, incoming President Trump said that he wants to end wars.
00:24He doesn't want to make new wars.
00:26He informed Prime Minister Netanyahu directly that he expects this war to be over by the
00:30time he enters the Oval Office.
00:32He doesn't want it on his desk.
00:34And what we've seen going on right now in Doha is unprecedented, where an outgoing U.S.
00:40administration is collaborating with an incoming U.S. administration from two separate political
00:46parties working hand in hand in order to make this deal happen.
00:51So that President Biden can take credit for it in his last days in office and President
00:55Trump can take credit for making it happen.
00:57We see Steve Whitkoff, Trump's Middle East admissary, working together with Brett McGurk
01:02from the White House.
01:04And their messages, both to Netanyahu, to the Egyptians, the Qataris, and to Hamas,
01:09has been to get it done.
01:10And let's face it, this deal has been on the table since the end of May, but it's only
01:15happening now, a few days before Trump takes the Oval Office.