**Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a #Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected**
Last Friday, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, called from Qatar to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides that he would be coming to Israel the following afternoon. The aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath.
Witkoff's blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office. Witkoff then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.
In fact, Witkoff forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu repeatedly rejected over the past half year.
Monday morning, 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."
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