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They rarely have existing representatives and new presidents of other parties worked in combination at such an important time. But the president and the president -elect no percentage the credit.
By David E. Sanger and Michael D. Shear
When the president chose Donald J. Trump, the envoy of the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel met on Saturday to put tensions in a fire cessation contract in Gaza, there are some in the speaker: Brett H. McGurk, president, the former Biden negotiator in the Middle East.
Mr. McGurk was in Doha, Qatar, leading the final round of negotiations for a cease-fire.
It was a vivid example of cooperation between two men representing bitter political rivals. Rarely if ever have teams of current and new presidents of different parties worked together at such a high-stakes moment, with the fate of American lives and the future of a devastating war hanging in the balance.
Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden publicly claimed credit for the breakthrough.
“This epic high -fire agreement can only have happened after our historical victory in November,” Trump wrote at his social media site even before the agreement was officially announced to Middle East.
In the White House, Biden told reporters that their management had worked tirelessly for months to convince any of the parties to avoid the fight. He called it “one of the maximum and complicated negotiations that I have experienced” and paid tribute to “an ordinary United States team. Diplomats who worked tirelessly for months to do so. “
Leaving the work, a journalist asked Mr. Biden: “Who gets the credits for this, Mr. President, you or Trump?” Mr. Biden stopped, around and smiled.
“Is it a joke?” Asked.
But despite the tension between the existing president and the following, his representatives in the Middle East described a cooperative job that dates back to the weeks that followed the day of the elections.
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