Envoy Steve Witkoff Must Be Replaced Immediately

Witkoff — a disgrace to the U.S., Israel, and the Western world — admitted he trusted Hamas’s lies over their genocidal actions

Once again, “Middle East Envoy” Steve Witkoff has demonstrated that he does not deserve a position at the highest levels of American foreign policy-making.

Appearing on Fox News, Witkoff explained that he believed another ceasefire deal with Hamas was nearly at hand until the terrorists’ negotiators turned down a proposal for a 40- or 50-day pause in exchange for the release of a small number of Jewish hostages.

“I was in Doha. I met with many of the Arab leaders at the Arab summit,” Witkoff told Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream. “I thought we had a deal. An acceptable deal. I even thought we had an approval from Hamas. Maybe that’s me getting duped [by Hamas].”

How can any human being — let alone a “deal maker” — believe that Hamas possesses any moral qualities — chief among them basic honesty? President Trump — who, himself, has never appeared to harbor similar fondness for Hamas — must expel Witkoff from the administration and revoke his security clearance.

Witkoff also has appeared recently — for unknown reasons — on anti-Semite Tucker Carlson’s podcast, where he said, absurdly, that Hamas is not “as ideologically locked in” as the evidence — like the video of rape and beheading that IDF officials showed him — makes obvious.

In addition to bizarre claims of Vladimir Putin’s personal decency, he said that Hamas straps “suicide vests onto young kids who don’t know what they’re doing,” and that Palestinians, despite their well-established culture of jihad martyrdom, want “to live.”

As we have documented previously, Witkoff, a long-time friend of the Trump family, is bought by Qatar, in the form of a $623 million bail-out for a failed business venture.

Regarding that country, Witkoff told Carlson, “they’re criticized for not being well motivated. It’s preposterous. They are well motivated. They’re good, decent people. What they want is a mediation that’s effective, that gets to a peace goal. And why? Because they’re a small nation and they want to be acknowledged as a peacemaker.”

As we wrote in January, “Qatar is Iran’s main beach head of influence in the Sunni Arab world, using its titanic wealth not only to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood but to tempt weak, greedy Westerners into advancing its projects.”

Given all this, Witkoff should not only be fired and lose his security clearance, he, perhaps, should also register as a foreign agent.