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Likud MK says Witkoff and Kushner pushing Israel into the ‘gates of hell,’ this isn’t a Miami business deal
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Likud MK Amit Halevi slams US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who arrived in Israel this morning, saying that they were pushing Israel into the “gates of hell” with the Gaza ceasefire deal.
“What Kushner is doing, and Witkoff and that whole gang, is not pushing us into the next stage [of the Gaza ceasefire deal], but pushing us into the gates of hell,” Halevi tells Army Radio.
“That is the meaning of bringing the Qataris and the Turks and the Emiratis,” he says, referring to plans to have an international force disarm Hamas in Gaza. “By the way, none of them will come when the gun against their heads is a Hamas gun.”
“These are just fantasies being sold to the public,” says Halevi.
“Mr. Witkoff should have long ago reached the conclusion that the Middle East is not running a business in Miami, or some tourist enterprise in Miami,” he says.
“The time has come to understand, the West needs to understand the enemy it is facing and act accordingly,” he says.
The backbencher from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party has been a strident critic of the deal and last week boycotted US President Donald Trump’s speech to the Knesset.
The Times of Israel Community.