March 10, 2025 (EIRNS)—There are strong indications that Trump is fed up with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s stalling tactics with the hostage negotiations, which has now made it into the media, including in Israel. Trump’s hostage envoy Adam Boehler, who met separately with Hamas representatives, has made statements to the press, including Israeli TV, on why it was important to meet Hamas.
Haaretz correspondent Chaim Levinson wrote in the March 10 issue: “U.S. hostages envoy Adam Boehler circumvented Israel’s leadership and spoke on Israeli TV on Sunday, telling Israelis what Netanyahu tried to keep quiet—the negotiations are progressing, and more hostages will return….
“U.S. President Donald Trump has grown tired of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stalling in the negotiations with Hamas. First, the Trump Administration cut out the Israeli government from the talks and spoke directly with Hamas. Now, they are also trying to cut out the middle man and speak directly to the Israeli public.”
Boehler told Israel’s Channel 12, that there have been positive developments in negotiations, and more hostages are set to return home; he told Israelis the United States had not forgotten them. He also told CNN in an interview that the United States is “not an agent of Israel,” which Haaretz represented as the Trump Administration’s “undiplomatic style.”
Haaretz says Netanyahu has “not yet internalized the paradigm shift” in the White House and suggests Netanyahu “tattoo Boehler’s statement on his hand, or at least hang it on his office wall.” They add that Trump is committed to “deals in the Middle East. First, the return of the hostages; second, an end to the Israel-Hamas war; and third, the big Saudi deal.”
The daily also reveals that the Trump Administration seems to be in tight with the Qataris, pointing to Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with the Prime Minister of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed al-Thani, and that Carlson was given the red carpet treatment in Doha.
But more interesting is that al-Thani heaped praise on Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Al-Thani mentioned they “were good friends, on such a level that 10 months before the U.S. election, he attended Witkoff’s son’s wedding....” The message was clear: Witkoff and al-Thani see the deal eye to eye.
