News of a truce between Israel and Hamas sent shockwaves through the mainstream media on Thursday as it appears President Donald Trump may finally have earned his Nobel Peace Prize.
The president plans to arrive in Israel on Saturday, two days before Hamas is set to release approximately 200 living hostages still in captivity. The first phase of the peace agreement also calls for Israel’s troops to withdraw to a fixed perimeter, with a final goal of total demobilization from Gaza.
On ABC News, correspondent Martha Raddatz appeared unrecognizable from her past pieces critical of Trump as she breathlessly recounted the last several hours of negotiations between the White House, Israel, and Middle East interlocutors with the terrorist organization.
“There’s no question that if this goes as planned, if we see those remaining hostages freed and Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a remarkable achievement and President Trump most certainly deserves credit for his role,” she said.
“He has done this through diplomacy, pressure, and the sheer force of his personality and persistence.”
Raddatz most recently stoked anger on the right when she asked three guests on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show whether President Trump was right to blame the “radical Left” for the murder of Charlie Kirk. The Trump campaign denounced her attempts to ask other Republicans about his 2024 comment referring to Nikki Haley as “bird brain.”
On Wednesday, however, Raddatz had nothing but praise for the man she frequently focuses on with hostile questioning.
“He dispatched diplomats again and again. He made threats to Hamas in just the last few days, saying again if they did not sign the deal all hell would break loose, and they had the bombing of Iran as an example of that,” she explained.
But perhaps most importantly, she added, Trump “pushed Benjamin Netanyahu in ways his predecessor and others have not.”
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Steve Witkoff, the U.S. envoy for peace missions, will arrive in Israel on Thursday to help convince the country’s cabinet to accept the deal, according to the NYT. Israel will withdraw to a line that leaves it in control of about 53% of Gaza; Hamas will then have 72 hours to return all remaining hostages.
Complicating the deal is an admission by Hamas that an untold number of bodies of hostages are now buried in rubble or areas outside its control. Israel has conditioned the deal on the return of all hostages, both living and dead.
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