Witkoff's Maze!

Continuing Negotiations

US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Witkoff, continues his marathon of indirect negotiations between "Israelis" and Palestinians to put a new agreement on the table for implementation, aiming for a point of consensus between the parties.

News of an imminent ceasefire agreement surfaces occasionally, coinciding with the spread of alleged leaked details of proposals and clauses. However, the reality and official statements do not align with what is being broadcast about Witkoff's proposal.

A Troubled Track Record

Witkoff has two negative experiences with adhering to previous commitments and agreements. Prior to the inauguration of US President Donald Trump in January 2025, Witkoff participated in negotiations to announce a ceasefire, paving the way for Trump's slogans about ending wars, especially in Gaza and Ukraine, as soon as he reached the White House. Indeed, the outgoing Joe Biden spoke of the agreement's achievement, and the current Trump speaks of it as his administration's achievement. But the important thing is that it was not an achievement as much as it was a temporary halt to bloodshed and genocide.

This agreement was signed to widespread international welcome. Despite repeated violations in the details of the first phase, Netanyahu breached the agreement by not entering the second phase and renewed the war on Gaza. This was a slap in the face to the international community and mediators, including the Americans, who did not respond with even a single word. Instead, they supplied "Israel" with weapons and covered for it before international courts and institutions. Witkoff was the godfather of the agreement and did not reject Netanyahu's violation of it.

At another point, when the "Israeli" soldier, Eidon Alexander, was released as a goodwill gesture by the resistance at the end of the second third of May, prior to Trump's visit to the Arabian Gulf region, Witkoff was the godfather of this initiative. He merged his efforts with side efforts that resulted in direct meetings between "Hamas" and America in several sessions. The resistance was promised that this gesture would be met with something great from Trump, in reference to the entry of aid. Nevertheless, Witkoff failed in this and escalated his statements against "Hamas."

These days, there is talk of a new proposal from Witkoff that he presented to the Palestinians, who agreed to it, saying it includes American commitments to a ceasefire and a move towards radical, long-term solutions. Netanyahu rejected a version of the proposal, saying, "We will agree to Witkoff's proposal that includes a temporary ceasefire."

Between this proposal and the repeated, modified, confirmed, previous, and subsequent versions, the matter has become a vast maze that allows the Americans to interpret any clause based on what is available to them, giving them more room to maneuver in disclaiming commitments or future obligations by prioritizing "Israel's" interests above all else.

The Elusive Horizon

In light of the field that "Israel" seeks to maintain as a military, security, hunger, and thirst pressure point, in clear defiance of international law, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the United Nations; Netanyahu continues to maneuver to prove the theory of military pressure. He has added a weapon that devastates the Palestinian people, which is hunger, to achieve what he has lost and continues to lose in the political and military arenas.

"Israel's" interpretations of Witkoff's proposals raise concerns and questions about the latter's seriousness at this stage, after his negativity reached the point of complicity in at least two previous stations, not to mention his policy of diminishing the already diminished and presenting it as a modified proposal.

For "Israel," the continuation of the war is a historical religious mission that has led them to the square of thinking about expansion and geographical advancement in the region. This means that the political horizon is diminishing day by day, coinciding with international silence, lack of oversight, and the absence of Arab seriousness in putting an end to what is happening. This whets Netanyahu's appetite to escape forward and take what he wants from Witkoff's proposals while denying what contradicts his plans, as happened previously, because the patronage has remained the same, and because America still does not have the intention of a political solution to the Palestinian issue. Its main concern is only the return of "Israeli" prisoners and the elimination of Palestinian resistance.

These are equations where the occupation state and America converge, which reduces the size and scope of hope for international parties to enter into mediation to impose a binding solution that meets Palestinian rights, especially since America still succeeds in misleading the world that it is working to end the file and that it is the mediator seeking to stop the war. At the same time, it keeps the Palestinian scene weak and its treatment temporary and only security and humanitarian. As for the radical solution, it remains slogans repeated by every American president until the end of his term, and the constant is settlement and expansion at the expense of the Palestinians, and only temporary security and humanitarian solutions and truces for three and a half decades of the illusion of American patronage.

This illusion cannot be broken except by breaking this patronage through expanding international patronage and stopping America's exclusive control over the Palestinian issue. This can be achieved by a clear declaration that there is no mediator or patron between an occupation and the people facing it and that whoever wants patronage must start from a broad, non-exclusive patronage, and also based on international law, not on "Israel's" and America's standards.