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Sally Zelikovsky says 2 envoys of the Trump administration, the former who's been disliked by realists as being bad for Israel's cause, made very appallingly divisive statements about Israel on one of the worst news programs on CBS:

Just when Republicans are winning, they go and shoot themselves in the foot, giving away vital political gains to liberals. We are literally the gift that keeps giving.

Enter: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, architects of the potential peace deal whereby Hamas finally released Israeli hostages after over two years of brutal captivity. Spiking the football, the two ventured into the belly of the beast by giving an interview to Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes.

That alone is a rookie mistake, by rookies playing statesmen and politicos. Not only are Stahl, 60 Minutes, and CBS compromised, their audience is chock-full of liberals holding viewpoints that do not support or favor Israel, certainly not in the aftermath of October 7th.

The excerpt CBS released before going on air Sunday included both Witkoff (dare I say Witless?) and Kushner discussing their reaction to Israel’s September 9th attack in Doha against Hamas leaders.

The duo characterized Israel as “out of control” and having nearly jeopardized the entire deal process. In discussing their surprise about Israel’s missile strike against Hamas leaders living in and getting protection from Qatar, Witkoff stated, “You know, I think both Jared and I felt, I just feel we felt a little bit betrayed.”

Responding to Stahl’s comment that Trump “was furious,” Kushner offered, “I think he [President Trump] felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing, and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

Their comments feed the sickening narrative in the Arab world and among leftists in the US, Israel, and Europe, that Israel’s post-October 7th response (including neutralizing Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthis, and Hamas) was disproportionate, out of control, and a genocide against the Palestinians despite painstaking Israeli efforts before any attack to get Gazan civilians to safety and provide them with humanitarian aid.

Their comments fail to recognize that, under international law, Israel had a right to ensure safety to its people from Hamas terrorists paragliding, tunneling, and riding bikes into Israel, intending to massacre and capture innocents.

Their comments place responsibility for jeopardizing the peace process squarely in Israeli hands, even though there was literally no traction for peace on the Arab world’s part up until the Doha attack.

Their comments perpetuate the misguided belief that, while the October 7th massacre was wrong and bad and, yes, it would be nice if the hostages could be released (but Bibi was preventing that for his personal political gain), Israel had lost the public relations war and had completely lost the moral high ground.

As if Israel has ever been on the winning side of the public relations war…

Well, this is obviously very repellent, right down to how Kushner lent himself to the defamation and damage to Israel's efforts to defeat jihadism. Notice how many of these diplomats also do it without even conferring in any way with the people they speak against and asking if it's okay to be irrationally critical.

For all we know, Witkoff and Kushner could easily lead to Zohran Mamdani being elected NYC mayor, ironic as it might sound, and they certainly don't inspire confidence the GOP is trying to retain a consistent position in Israel's favor. For now, they've provided one more reason why they don't deserve to be envoys.

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