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Steven Witkoff, the Trump administration’s official envoy who had past business ties to Qatar, sat down with Tucker Carlson, the former FOX News talking head turned Qatari apologist who had recently featured Qatar’s leader, to talk about how wonderful Qatar is.
“Sheikh Mohammed… is a good man,” Witkoff gushed.
“He certainly is,” Tucker Carlson agreed.
“He’s a special guy. He really is,” Witkoff said.
“In the case of the Qataris, they’re criticized for not being well motivated. It’s preposterous. They are well motivated. They’re good, decent people. What they want is a mediation that’s effective, that gets to a peace goal. And why? Because they’re a small nation and they want to be acknowledged as a peacemaker.” Witkoff said of a country that serves as a state sponsor of every Islamic terrorist group from the Taliban to Hamas, and which harbored the mastermind of 9/11.
Tucker complained that Witkoff was being attacked for working for Qatar by the “news media and social media.” The truth is that the news media praises Witkoff, he’s being condemned on social media.
Witkoff replied by defending Qatar. “I’ve had a couple of experiences where first I was attacked as being pro Qatari sympathizer. By the way, Qatar is a mediator here. They’re not a party to the conflict, they’re a mediator. So I am—how could I not collaborate with the mediator? And if I’m not collaborating with the mediator, I’m bound to be ineffective. It’s not even possible that I could do the job. I had to know everything that they knew. So that means collaboration.”
Qatar is not a mediator. It’s a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups. By collaborating with Qatar, Witkoff is by definition collaborating with Hamas.
Witkoff praised Biden envoy Brett McGurk. According to Witkoff, McGurk told him, “this is where I want to get to, Steve.”
And that’s what led to the first disastrous deal with Hamas.
Tucker Carlson then lied that this approach of appeasing Islamic terrorists was “so different from the posture that the last couple of generations of diplomats have taken, which is like, here’s what we want. Shut up and do it. And I just don’t think, leaving aside moral considerations, I don’t think it’s been very effective.”
In reality, trying to win over terrorists is exactly what Bush, Obama and Biden did.
And it never worked.
Tucker knows it. He’s talked about it back when he wasn’t acting like an employee for the Gulf Muslim oil states.
Tucker Carlson then lied that Qatar are “often accused, almost universally accused in the US Media of being agents of Iran.” In fact the media bends over backward and promotes anything that Qatar and its Al Jazeera media outlet say. There’s virtually no criticism of Qatar in the media here. Tucker knows it. He’s propagandizing for Qatar to his conservative audience by making it seem like it’s at odds with the media.
In reality, the media is in Qatar’s pocket.
“They’re a Muslim nation. In the past, they’ve had some views that are a little bit more radical,” Witkoff claimed. “From an Islamist standpoint than they are today, but it’s moderated quite a bit. There’s no doubt that they’re an ally of the United States. There’s no doubt about that.”
Tucker agreed with Witkoff at every turn about how wonderfully moderate Qatar is.
Witkoff told Tucker that he had never spoken to Hamas, but “I think you have to trust the Qataris. If I didn’t trust the Qataris, then that would be really problematic, not meeting with Hamas.”
After the Qatari propaganda, Witkoff and Tucker turned to Hamas.
Witkoff then made an argument for the UN’s 15-20 year reconstruction plan for Gaza.
“What’s acceptable to us is they need to demilitarize. Then maybe they could stay there a little bit. Be involved politically. But they can’t be involved militarily. We can’t have a terrorist organization running Gaza because that won’t be acceptable to Israel,” Witkoff said.
So from a starting point of expelling Hamas and Gazans, we’re now down to Hamas getting to be “politically involved” in running Gaza as long as it goes through some show of disarming.
“You know, what we heard in the beginning of this conflict is Hamas is ideological. They’re prepared to die for a whole variety of reasons,” Witkoff told Tucker. “I don’t think that they are as ideologically locked in. They’re not ideologically intractable. I don’t. I never believe that.”
The contention that Hamas is not really ideological and is willing to make a deal was a feature of both the Bush and Obama administrations.
“Smart. Smart. That is total. That is smart. But it’s. How hard was it to come to that conclusion?” Tucker cheered.
The rest of the conversation essentially had Tucker Carlson channeling the Saudi line, claiming that “looming over all of these countries and their remarkable success both economically and socially, there’s like great countries, in my opinion is the conflict in Gaza. And not just Gaza, but the idea that, wow, this could all blow up tomorrow because we don’t know what the Israeli plan is.”
During the conversation, Tucker repeatedly demonstrated that he knew nothing about the region except whatever the Saudis and whoever else in the Gulf oil states was feeding him, leading him to say at one point that, Turkey’s “Erdogan is seen by some in his country as a tool of Israel.” In reality, Erdogan recently threatened war against Israel and praised Hamas.
Tucker claimed “that the conflict in Gaza, which is of course streamed in everyone’s iPhone, a lot of people killed in Gaza, a lot of kids. And that’s inflaming the populations of some of these countries again, specifically Egypt and Jordan.”
Tucker complained to Witkoff that the ‘two-state solution’ has become controversial.
Witkoff said that “the Israelis going in is in some respects unfortunate and in some respects falls into the “had to be” bucket. It kind of had to be. Hamas was not responding. And their responses were unreasonable.”
Then Witkoff recycled most of the Bush/Obama calls for “real elections in Gaza”.
That’s how Hamas took over Gaza in the first place.
One of Tucker’s parting remarks to Witkoff was, “I hope for our sake you wind up in Tehran.”
Do we know when this interview was recorded?. Boeler was supposedly sidelined for similar comments. Now we see he was echoing his boss, Witcoff. The question remains how on earth does Trump employ Witcoff? Gives rise to serious questions about Trump.
Is relocation of hateful Hamas supporting Gazans still a possibility?
We hear such conflicting things.
Trump is winning on some fronts but blowing it on others. Trump, like US presidents before him, seem ignorant of the fact that many of the problems in the middle east stem from intractable ancient hatreds that are not going to be solved anytime soon or in the foreseeable future.
Perhaps if past and present US presidents had seriously studied Arab culture and history, they would understand this. Unfortunately, they don’t.
Witless Trump has allowed his old friend, witkoff—who is owned by Qatar—to infiltrate his administration. Just as bad, our big mouthed POTUS is now blathering about how we’d joint the British commonwealth of kind Charles invites us to.
Tucker Carlson sitdown
Of course, yes! And Tucker can stand to be a bit more discerning in choosing who he sits down to talk with on camera.
Doing more than a cursory background check on the person he’s planning on interviewing would also certainly go a long way in not making him end up looking like a silly & naive nimrod who got played. There’s enough of that already on all the alphabet soup channels.
Tucker knew exactly what and who Witkoff is and that’s why he had Witkoff on his show. There’s nothing innocent about Tucker.
What happened to Carlson? He’s obviously a decent guy but Skeve Whakoff? Mr Hamas cease fire? How’s that going, Skeve? The Hamas Homos said they’d take “pretty much” any conditions” for a cease fire while they’re getting their asses pounded.
Your mullah buddies in Tehran are next on the hit list, Skeve. The Houthis and Hamas are just the warm ups.
Wow. After that I’m done with Tucker.
Much of what Tucker talks about these days can be equated to the broken clock theory.
What happened to that guy?
Money buys tongues.
Witkoff is owned by Qatar after they bailed his arse out of financial disaster.
You mean he has to kiss their ass. Got it. I never liked ass kissers. Trusting such people is risky that often results in you getting thrown under a bus or worse.
They kiss your ass with a dagger ready to shive you in the back!
If you look at the knife that they all carry in that region it becomes obvious that it is useful for one thing, and one thing only, and that is murder.
It is sharply curved through 90 degrees to a very fine point and only sharp on the inside of the curve.
The only two ways to use it are cutting a throat from behind or slipping it into the kidneys while giving a hug of greeting from in front.
It’s called a kinjal and it says everything you need to know about the culture.
I keep wondering what’s wrong with these people’s minds. These are Muslims they’re dealing with, and nothing they agree to can be trusted, it’s Koranic. “According to sharia, in certain situations, deception – also known as ‘taqiyya’, based on Quranic terminology, – is not only permitted but sometimes obligatory.” We have almost 1500 years of history demonstrating that practice, and yet these prominent and highly educated people cling to preconceptional nonsense, just like Henry Kissinger, ignoring things known and making things that are unknown.
They’re owned by them.
In common parlance, they’re on the side of whomever butters their bread!! That pretty much explains all politicians or at the minimum what motivates them.
City halls, state capitals and Washington DC and their equivalent in other countries around the world are the only places on earth where bullsh*t has currency.
Absolute cluelessness. They need education about negotiating with an Honor Culture.
Strangely enough, I only learned about the Honor Culture negotiating tricks after reading 5000 pages or so from Sir Richard Burton’s 1800s travels in Muslim lands, after discussions here.
Yep.
When we were young communists (joking),
All those 19thC. dudes were just White Supremacists spreading war and slavery for fun and profit,
But the older we get,
The smarter and better informed those Dead White Dudes appear to be,
And it looks like Christians were spreading the Rule of Law and an end to slavery …
for fun and profit. (with some serious exceptions, of course).
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h/t to Mark Twain and Bill and Ted for the humorous spin
I’m always embarrassed by your reading. 🙂 You’ve read way more of Sir Burton’s words than I ever have, and I even read the fictional stuff by Philip Jose Farmer. I thought I was cool because of “The Arabian Nights,” “The City of the Saints” and some biographies. (I saw that movie, “The Mountains of the Moon,” too. Patrick Bergan as a super cool Burton and Ian Glenn as Speke. You should watch it.) I just saw online that I can buy”The Complete Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton” (illustrated and annotated edition.)
WTF? I need to crawl out of my cave and sniff the real world.
Tucker Carlson, the deep state operative inserted into Trumps circle, I never trusted him after his vage antisemitism and anti Israel posture. Plus dad was cia.
Witless Witkoff I don’t understand why Trump made this Kapo an envoy for peace, he is a bought and paid for traitor. Sickening.
Thank you Daniel for exposing him.
Tucker, Hunter Biden’s old pal, who turrned on Trump after J6
I absolutely agree with tucker’s parting statement about Witkoff ending up in Tehran. But I think it’s probably for a different reason than Tucker. I’d like to see ALL muslim supporters end up there.
Is this a glimpse of a return to Trumps First Term!?
Is there some kind of existential blindness that has fallen over the world?
I started reading this and it felt like my head was about to blow off. How many times before reality hits these people squarely where their instincts to survive are located? No, I don’t mean their bank accounts.
Yes, of course let’s negotiate with the Wahhabis Qataris that is sure to be of benefit to Israel and worldwide Jews not to mention the rest of humanity.
Oy Vey!
The whole world is meshuggeneh!!!
I’ve got such a headache now…..
I reckon it’s time to remove the rose colored glasses when watching Tucker – I’ve seen things of late that made me think twice – Oh not Tucker – Oh yes Tucker – well Tucker the Mudda Fukka (I know the other way rhymes)
As long as Tucker stays bally woo hoo for President Trump, he is useful.
Maybe it’s that high pitched laugh when he’s giving a speech when there was no joke or nothing funny said. I won’t go back and replay that video to see if I missed something, it’s some inside joke that only Tucker seems to know.
Nah, it’s shtick – it’s Tucker Carlson shtick that laugh.
Peace in the mid east? Not going to happen. Trusting this time the izzylam nations are going to live up to the agreement and contract for peace they signed, Nope, not going to happen. Every other peace treaty agreement they signed was just to give them time to rebuild and regroup and strike terror against Israel and the west because we are too stupid, too afraid, too weary, exhausted and ran out of ways to imagine how to compel them to peace so we do not wipe out their nation and the civilians within the borders of those nations.
We are stuck with this until YHVH, G-D of the Bible puts and end to all this demoniac possessed humans that train for blood shed massacring genocides because of some tradition of hate handed down generation after generation.
If we have anyone to blame, Professor Dan, it’s our forefather Abraham who gave into his wife Sara and bedded her handmaiden Hagar to get a son. And to with that son, Ishmael, came this prophesy from YHVH: Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility toward[a] all his brothers. (NIV)
Just idiotic. President Trump has undue confidence in Mr. Witkoff.
To put int bluntly, Tucker is an Idiot!! I realized that early on his Fox show. He would give these insightful and intelligent monologues but when it came to question time it was a different person. Come to find out he had a speechwriter for his monologues. We found that out because that person got into some type of trouble.
Watch any of his interviews and it is easy to spot the ignorance of the man. He does that silly laugh when he is dumbfounded, which is fairly often.
When a person has one after another of anti-Israel, anti=Zionist, anti-Jew on, it’s not just a fluke. It is a person’s inherent personality. So it goes with Tucker.
I always get nervous when Jews like Witkoff are deeply involved in the so called peace process. Jews inherently lack the confidence to do the right thing. They always want to appease their benefactors and are easily conned.
Qatar has been playing the West for decades. But Witkoff needs them, as they play the two faced game.
https://www.memri.org/countries/qatar
https://www.counterextremism.com/content/muslim-brotherhood-qatar
Hamas, what did Qatar know and when did it know it?
On the question of who stood to benefit from October 7, Western intelligence turns its gaze to Doha. Politico. Jam 11, 2024
https://www.politico.eu/article/west-search-truth-qatar-israel-hamas-war/On
Qatar’s ‘day after’ plan for Gaza: Keep Hamas in power
Jan 28, 2025
https://www.jns.org/qatars-day-after-plan-for-gaza-keep-hamas-in-power/
Qatar is now the deep state in the Trump administration.
Feb 12, 2025
https://www.jns.org/qatar-is-now-the-deep-state-in-the-trump-administration/
‘Qatar is Hamas, and Hamas is Qatar’.
by Khaled Abu Toameh.
February 11, 2025.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21386/qatar-is-hamas
I once had a lot of respect for Tucker Carlson. What happened? This Steve Witkoff fellow, however, has from the first moment I heard his name come off as a bumbling fool. Everybody knows that Qatar and Turkey are Muslim Brotherhood-Ikhwan states. The same organization that spawned Hamas, Al Qaeda, Egyptian and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic State, and several other lesser known Sunni terrorist organizations.
I saw the founder of MEMRI detail on the Caroline Glick show that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a employee of the Qatari government at the time of 9/11, that this allowed him free access to travel on the Qatari’s dime to plot global jihad, and that the Qatari’s had prior knowledge of 9/11.