Netanyahu Humiliates White House: ‘There’s No Gaza Deal In The Making… It’s Not Close’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday issued a bombshell of a statement which constitutes a glaring contradiction of the White House narrative on how things are going with Hamas negotiations toward a ceasefire deal. “There’s not a deal in the making,” he told Fox News. “Unfortunately, it’s not close.” He said this during a morning Fox News live interview segment.

The remarks are the firmest and most unequivocal Netanyahu has ever been regarding what are clearly failed and perhaps even dead international efforts to achieve a truce in Gaza.

For days and weeks now, a series of White House statements have claimed the Biden administration is spearheading efforts to achieve a peace deal and hostage swap, and Blinken and Kirby have used a variety of metaphors including being at “the goal line” while repeatedly claiming there’s been a comprehensive deal on the table that’s ‘close’.

However, only within the last couple days has President Biden’s rhetoric changed. On the one hand the administration has blamed Hamas for rejecting the deal, and other other Biden has begun saying that Netanyahu is “not doing enough” to achieve peace.

But the fresh Netanyahu interview confirms what many observers have suspected all along – that there’s no viable deal to speak of currently, and really there never was a deal ‘on the table’ or at ‘the goal line’ at all. According to Fox:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday morning dismissed reports that negotiators were close to agreeing a cease-fire deal.

“It’s exactly inaccurate,” Netanyahu told “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade during an interview. “There’s a story, a narrative out there that there’s a deal out there … that’s just a false narrative.”

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