Washington Post Columnist Hails Trump for Achieving in Gaza Deal What Biden ‘Could Never Do’
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius hailed President Donald Trump for achieving in his Gaza peace deal what former President Joe Biden “could never do.”
Trump announced Wednesday night that Israel and Hamas had reached the first phase of what he described as a “historic” peace deal in the form of a ceasefire accompanied by the initial exchange of hostages and prisoners.
The president celebrated the “unprecedented event” on Truth Social, writing that “ALL of the hostages will be released very soon” as part of the agreement.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, Ignatius’s remarks came after host Joe Scarborough noted that during peace talks Israeli and Arab world leaders both held the view that “if anybody was going to be able to resolve” the conflict, “it would be Donald Trump.”
Ignatius replied: “So, Joe, on the two sides of that, I can remember in the month or so after October 7, an Israeli senior official saying to me, we are so disoriented and traumatized by this war. The United States is going to have to make decisions for us. Joe Biden could never do that. And Donald Trump was able to do it.”
He continued: “And [he] did it at the decisive moment when he said, essentially, this war must end and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, which many right wing Israelis wanted.”
Ignatius then praised Trump for showing regional leaders in the Middle East that he was “serious” about peace while “quietly” sending his team and “unlikely emissary” Steve Witkoff to work “behind the scenes week by week” toward a final 20-point peace plan.
“That is something that Joe Biden, for all his desire for peace, wasn’t able to do,” he concluded.
Earlier in the show, Ignatius had said: “This war was blocked for two years. President Biden, who preceded him, was unable to find a way to stop it. President Trump found that way by being tough on both sides. And he will take a victory lap for sure over the next few days, but it’s deserved. There’s no way that I can see that this would have been done without Trump’s pressure in the final hours.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
