A “tense” weekend meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and incoming Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff led to a breakthrough in the hostage negotiations, with the top aide to US President-elect Donald Trump doing more to sway the premier in a single sit-down than outgoing President Joe Biden did all year, two Arab officials told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
Witkoff has been in Doha for the past week to take part in the hostage negotiations, as mediators try to secure a deal before Trump’s January 20 inauguration. On Saturday, Witkoff flew to Israel for a meeting with Netanyahu at the premier’s Jerusalem office.
During the meeting, Witkoff urged Netanyahu to accept key compromises necessary for an agreement, the two Arab officials on Monday told The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity. Neither Witkoff nor Netanyahu’s office responded to requests for comment.
Why? Because we can identify propaganda like this very easily. You should consider the following basic questions when you are consuming news. What’s the publisher? Are they reliable? Do they have incentive to lie about this issue? Can we confirm anything that they claim in this article? Who are their sources? Do we know the names of their sources? Do we have any good reason to believe their sources?
In other words, this article doesn’t pass the five second test for reliability.
The ceasefire happened right after Trump sent his envoy to Israel. The article confirms the obvious.