“The big test for the U.S. now is to go to the Turks into the Qataris and say, ‘You’ve been blowing smoke at us, and Hamas is not cooperating,’” Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former U.K. envoy to Yemen, told JNS.
U.S. President Donald Trump placed the blame for slow progress on the Gaza peace plan squarely on one party: Hamas.
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday, the U.S. president said at his second press conference of the day that Israel has “lived up to the plan 100%.”
“I’m not concerned about anything that Israel is doing,” Trump said. “I’m concerned about what other people are doing, or maybe aren’t doing. But I’m not concerned. They’ve lived up to the plan.”