#steve witkoff

[mysharona1987]

Steve Witkoff is doomed now.

[cavalierzee]

Diplomat Of Death

Witkoff aiding and abetting in Genocide and Extermination!

[porterdavis]

Oopsie

This is a classic...it's been largely unreported, but it's damning.

Steve (Dim)Witkoff, Trump's negotiator, was a party to the Signal chat. He was in Moscow on the day of the attack. When asked about his involvement, he said something to the effect of 'I was in the Kremlin and my phone was in a secure bag outside so I took no part in the chat, didn't see it until much later".

When the dime dropped, his face fell too because he had just confirmed his Signal app was on his personal phone, making his use of it even more incriminating.

A charter member of the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.

[timothysnyder]

You can’t get to peace by repeating the obvious lies of the aggressor. Even if you have no moral qualms about becoming the propagandist of a foreign power, practically speaking it just can’t work.

[saywhat-politics]

The Kremlin confirmed Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted to Donald Trump a portrait he commissioned of the U.S. president.

Putin gave the painting to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow earlier this month, the Russian president’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said in a response to a journalist’s question, declining further comment.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Julian Borger at The Guardian:

Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow for the release of hostages without an Israeli troop withdrawal. The office of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it was imposing a blockade on Gaza because Hamas would not accept a plan which it claimed had been put forward by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to extend phase one of the ceasefire and continue to release hostages, and postpone phase two, which envisaged an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. “With the end of phase one of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks – to which Israel agreed – Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease. Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” it said in a statement. “If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.” After the announcement, Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Omer Dostri, wrote in a social media post: “No trucks entered Gaza this morning, nor will they at this stage.” The UN secretary general, António Guterres, on Sunday called for “humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza immediately”. The existence and details of a Witkoff plan had not been confirmed by Washington by Sunday morning. A statement from Hamas called the suspension of aid a “war crime” and a violation of the ceasefire agreement. It said Netanyahu’s “decision to suspend humanitarian aid is cheap blackmail, a war crime and a blatant coup against the [ceasefire] agreement”. Hamas said it was committed to the originally agreed ceasefire that had been scheduled to move into a second phase, with negotiations aimed at a permanent end to the war, and it rejected the idea of a temporary extension to the 42-day truce. A senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Mardawi, told Al Jazeera the group would release the remaining Israeli hostages only under the terms of the already agreed-upon phased deal. During the 15 months of the Israel-Gaza war, the Netanyahu government repeatedly denied claims from aid agencies that it was blocking humanitarian deliveries, blaming the very limited flow on other factors. Before the ceasefire, UN officials had warned that widespread famine was imminent. In the six weeks of the first phase of the truce, deliveries returned to the prewar levels of about 600 trucks a day, mostly carrying food.

[...] Israeli political analysts have suggested that Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire under pressure from Donald Trump, confident that the agreement would never reach a second phase. Since the start of the ceasefire, he prevented Israeli negotiators from discussing a second phase. Witkoff has, however, insisted that a second phase of the ceasefire deal should be implemented, to ensure the release of the remaining 59 hostages, only 25 of whom are thought to be still alive. Most Israelis also want the government to make a priority of freeing the hostages, but that position is opposed by the Israeli far right, without whom the coalition could not stay in power. The rightwing parties argue Israel’s priority should be the destruction of Hamas. The far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the decision to halt the flow of aid was “an important step in the right direction”. Referring to Trump’s earlier threat to open the “gates of hell” on Gaza, Smotrich said in a social media post: “Now we need to open these gates as quickly and deadly as possible on to the enemy, until complete victory.”

This is just cruel and inhumane by Israel Apartheid State to cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza.

[tomorrowusa]

« I know we shouldn’t enjoy the fact that we have a confederacy of dunces running this country. But I’ll be honest, I can’t help it – I’m enjoying it right now.

This week, in the race between dumb and evil, dumb’s in the lead. Dumb has a big lead! »

— Jimmy Kimmel on the use of a chat app by Trump administration national security officials to discuss war plans in Yemen.

Jimmy went on to remind us that one of the participants (Steve Witkoff) in the group chat was physically in Russia at the time.

Of course Russia would never consider eavesdropping on US officials discussing military actions. /sarcasm

This entire matter puts the stupidity and recklessness of the Trump Maladministration on full display. And the GOP Senate deserves a share of the blame; they confirmed the moronic Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense even though they knew he has a drinking problem and is a serial sex abuser.

Please watch the vid, it's Jimmy in top form. For fun, share it with your MAGA in-laws.

[generallemarc]

Something that should be recognized as badass regardless of your political views

is that Trump's envoy that he's appointed for the Middle East, and the man who's currently leading the negotiation efforts with Iran, is Jewish. Let me rephrase that a bit: Iran is being forced to treat a Jew, a kafir, a man who'd legally be designated a second-class citizen in their country, as an equal in these talks. Think whatever you want about Trump's policy towards Iran/the Middle East, and it certainly doesn't have to be positive(God knows I sure don't see it that way), but this right here is something to be proud of. We're dragging them up and forcing them to look one of those they've deemed inferior in the eye on equal terms, and that ought to count for something.

@stopmakingliberalslookbad I know you're not Jewish, but you're more active in that space; would this count as a Jewish w? Speaking just about Witkoff's status as the man in charge of all this-if we started getting into the particulars it'd fall apart into a Godwin-off in ten seconds flat.

EDIT: And because I've seen a saddening increase in talk like this over the past month or two, no, this is not about how Islam is bad or how Muslims are evil or yadda yadda yadda. This is about how Iran's government is awful and deserve to be humiliated and forced to abandon their principles of discrimination and oppression. This is about how extremist Islam is bad, extremist being the important term, because extremism makes literally anything bad.

[eretzyisrael]

by Yonah Elias

We are this close to victory. Hamas is bleeding. Their bunkers are crumbling. Their leaders are hiding like rats in holes. Their propaganda is collapsing under the weight of Israel’s precision, courage, and refusal to die quietly. And just when Hamas is gasping for breath, what does Steve Witkoff do?

He throws them a ventilator.

He doesn’t end the war.

He doesn’t rescue the hostages.

He resurrects Hamas.

This is not diplomacy. This is betrayal wrapped in a press release.

Let’s call this what it is: treason against civilization.

This “deal” is a sick joke. Ten living hostages and eighteen corpses in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire, IDF retreat, and handing Gaza’s aid distribution back to the same UN parasites that armed and enabled Hamas in the first place?

This isn’t negotiation. It’s strategic necrophilia.

Digging up the corpse of Hamas and dressing it in a suit.

Where the hell is your spine, Witkoff?

You know damn well that Hamas has been reduced to rubble. That their military capability is a shell. That Israel has them cornered. And you—an American—walk in and offer the child-murdering jihadists a timeout? To rearm, regroup, and rewrite the narrative? Why?

Why give them sixty days of oxygen instead of finishing them off now, forever?

The IDF is doing what no one else had the balls to do: liberate an entire people from jihadist tyranny. They’ve fought street by street, tunnel by tunnel, house by booby-trapped house. And now you want them to stop, retreat, and give the United Nations back control of the humanitarian scam network Hamas used for decades to fund genocide?

You might as well deliver weapons to Rafah yourself, Steve.

You’re giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to ISIS with a green headband.

And the hostage count proves it. They offer 28 out of 58—18 of them dead—and you reward that with a ceasefire and political legitimacy?

How dare you.

That’s not diplomacy. That’s cooperating with mass murderers.

That’s rewarding the slaughter of Jews on October 7th.

That’s spitting in the face of every grieving Israeli mother, father, and soldier who fought to make “never again” mean something.

[girlactionfigure]

Gal Hirsch and Steve Witkoff arrived at the Reim military base in preparation for the reception of Idan Alexander.

[tiredgirlvent]

[cavalierzee]

American "Aid"

We'll aid Israel in killing Gazans.

Just like they built a pier to bring in "aid" and ended up using it to assist Israel is mounting a rescue operation for their Prisoners of War.

[newslink7com]

U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Held at Secret Site in Oman as Tehran Refuses to Dismantle Nuclear Program
Tensions rise as Iran digs in on its nuclear stance. Trump threatens airstrikes if no deal is reached.
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[jackoshadows]

Witkoff's blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal. A week before Trump's inauguration, Jerusalem already sees a change in the rules of the game that has broken the deadlock in the hostage negotiations. Unusually, the outgoing Biden administration has let Witkoff lead the process, on the grounds that any obligations the United States undertakes will be incumbent on Trump, not on Biden. In fact, Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year. Hamas has not budged from its position that the hostages' freedom must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners (the easy part) and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (the hard one). Netanyahu rejected this condition and thus was born the partial deal proposed by Egypt. Initially, the talk was of a limited humanitarian deal. More and more conditions were slowly appended until it grew into a much bigger proposal with clear outlines – a hostage release, new regional arrangements and full withdrawal. The Philadelphi Corridor, which Netanyahu last summer termed the bedrock of Israel's existence, is part of the deal. At Egypt's request, Israel will fully withdraw from it in the first phase. His propaganda machine is pushing the no-choice narrative that it's Trump. On Monday, laments began to be heard on Channel 14 that Trump isn't what we thought. "I'm surprised all the senior officials in the U.S. administration are saying the same thing," Yotam Zimri said on the Patriots program. "If this doesn't happen by the time Trump comes in, Hamas will understand what hell is. I don't understand the Israeli interest in at least not waiting for Trump." Yinon Magal answered," It's because Trump is pressing to do it! That's what's happening." Zimri: "So all his people have been lying – it's a big disappointment." Magal: "He talks about hell and in the meantime sends his envoy to sign a deal. It's a deal whose impact will be very difficult. That's the truth." He added that the last remaining hope is that Hamas will reject a deal: "A cabinet minister told me we need to pray again that God will harden Pharaoh's heart." Monday morning, another Netanyahu mouthpiece, Jacob Bardugo said, "The pressure Trump is exerting right now is not the kind that Israel expected from him. The pressure is the essence of the matter."

[dertaglichedan]

Trump Calls for Action on Ukraine-Russia Talks, Cites April 12 Remarks and Extends Sanctions

President Donald Trump stated on April 12 that negotiations between Ukraine and Russia for a ceasefire might be progressing, but emphasized the urgency of action. Speaking aboard Air Force One, he remarked, 'There’s a point at which you have to either put up or shut up,' adding that the situation is 'going fine.'

Trump's comments followed a meeting between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on April 11, as part of efforts to mediate peace. Despite these talks, ceasefire agreements remain stalled, with accusations of energy truce violations and other breaches from both sides.

Trump also expressed frustration with the prolonged conflict, citing the high human toll and urging Russia to 'get moving' toward a resolution. He hinted at potential sanctions on countries purchasing Russian oil if progress is not made. The U.S. recently extended its national emergency and associated sanctions against Russia for another year.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Keeley at NCRM:

President Donald Trump said that the news media had been “caught cheating again” when it reported on claims the president had overstated the success of his strikes on Iran this weekend. Trump called out the New York Times and CNN by name in a Wednesday post to his social media platform Truth Social. “We just caught the Failing New York Times, working with Fake News CNN, cheating again! They tried to demean the great work our B-2 pilots did, and they were wrong in doing so. These reporters are just BAD AND SICK PEOPLE. You would think they would be proud of the great success we had, instead of trying to always make our Country look bad. TOTAL OBLITERATION!” Trump wrote. Trump’s post refers to reporting by the two outlets that early U.S. military intelligence reports showed that the strikes on the three nuclear sites in Iran had merely set the country’s nuclear progress back months, rather than years. The New York Times cited anonymous officials while CNN said it had heard from seven people briefed on the Defense Intelligence Agency report.

While Trump had said the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” the uranium enrichment facilities, the initial report said that the entrances had been destroyed but not the underground structures. Both CNN and the Times did mention that further reports could prove the initial findings incorrect. A report from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission on Wednesday said that the strike on the Fordo site rendered it “inoperable,” according to the BBC.

[...] The Trump administration has not just railed against the news media over reporting on Iran. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff called for an investigation on who specifically leaked the information to CNN and the Times, suggesting that the leakers may be guilty of treason. “Well, it goes without saying that leaking that type of information—whatever the information, whatever side it comes out on—is outrageous. It’s treasonous,” Witkoff said during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle. “So, it ought to be investigated, and whoever did it—whoever’s responsible for it—should be held accountable. It could hurt lives in the future. Leaking is a completely unacceptable thing.”

Drama King Donald Trump whines about the media for not parroting his BS claims about Iran.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Serial liar Trump tries to oversell his Iran strikes