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the qatari prime minister literally thanked trump's emissary, witkoff, by name for being the deciding factor when he anounced the deal of the cease fire on wednesday.
i don't doubt that the biden's administration did a lot of the work; but it was trump's emissary that knocked the ball over the net where the biden administration couldn't/wouldn't for the last year and a half. i too see the western legacy and social media lol @ trump for taking credit for it. look it up on non-western sources like al jazeera for yourself since all of the other americans won't.
Funny enough the Al Jazeera article is where I double checked that I wasn’t mistaken. It’s all mention of the current admin’s involvement. I would very much assume that any praise being heaped on trumps shoulders is just the beginning of the forthcoming wave of ego stroking in order to take advantage of his vanity and desperate need for praise.
that article doesn't even identify the biden administration's role beyond making announcements about the ceasefire plan.
still, though, it's fascinating that it's not showing it you because i just did simple search on google news for "trump" and "ceasefire" and it immediately showed me these articles/video that say the same thing i did in my previous comments:
video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/16/who-is-steve-witkoff-trumps-envoy-in-the-gaza-ceasefire-talks#flips-6367189569112:0
article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/17/trumps-role-in-gaza-ceasefire-fuels-arab-american-anger-with-biden
even politico agrees: https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-was-the-closer-on-the-gaza-deal/
how do you get your news? what search terms did you use and where?
I searched DDG for Israel ceasefire. Interesting. I appreciate the info
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According to https://journa.host/@w7voa/113833951170679183 f., Pr. Biden himself admits that both -present and incoming- admin people played certain roles.
"For the past few days we have been speaking as one team … I told my team to coordinate closely with the incoming team so that we're all speaking with the same voice."
I don't think that there's any doubt that the Biden administration played a role; infact the plan that they pushed back in the spring is same one that got adopted.
The key take away is that the Biden administration was stuck for the last year and half and Trump's emissary ended up being the MVP that tipped the ball over the net; wo Trump's involvement there would be no ceasefire.