PNN – A Hebrew-language media outlet claimed that the US special envoy for the Ukraine war negotiations and the agreement with Iran was a confused person and that the mission assigned to him was beyond his capacity.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claimed in a report on this matter that Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, a former lawyer and construction magnate, has in fact become a versatile envoy today after the new administration entered the White House.
This comes as many in the United States express concern about the approach he is taking in negotiations with Russia and Iran, especially since these negotiations are being conducted with America’s two biggest rivals.
In another part of the report, Aharonot wrote, citing an American media report, Today, Witkoff has effectively become Trump’s personal envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the management of the Middle East has been effectively delegated to him. He appears alone at high-level meetings in Moscow. While informed sources say that in some cases he uses Kremlin translators at these meetings, this is considered a break from tradition in US diplomacy.
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Before his recent meeting with Putin last Friday, he met with the Russian president alone, as if he were an old friend. None of the members of the delegation, advisors, experts, or even military officers who usually accompany US government officials during negotiations were present.
On the other hand, Putin was not alone in this meeting; he was accompanied by his assistant Yuri Ushakov and Karl Dimitrov, head of the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
According to the Hebrew-language media outlet, Vitkoff, who his supporters describe as a difficult negotiator, appears to have faced many challenges.
As special envoy to the Middle East, Whittaker is negotiating a ceasefire and prisoner releases between Israel and Hamas, and is also the United States’ negotiator with Iran on a new nuclear deal.
According to the Hebrew-language media outlet, he did his job properly before Donald Trump took office and was able to organize negotiations that led to a two-month ceasefire and the release of 33 prisoners, which took effect the day before Trump’s inauguration, but his subsequent efforts to extend the ceasefire failed.
On March 12, Whittaker left a meeting with Hamas representatives in Qatar with the impression that an agreement in principle had been reached, and he had the impression that Hamas had agreed to release five prisoners in exchange for a large number of Palestinian prisoners. Two days later, Hamas announced that it was ready to release only one prisoner, an American prisoner, while it could also hand over the bodies of four dead Israelis, but Witkoff completely rejected this offer, which caused the ceasefire to collapse four days later.