Terrorists - unprecedented International legitimacy, negotiating directly with US

Nonetheless, however, it is Trump who selected this man to represent America when rewarding Hamas for its monstrous assault on October 7 by giving it unprecedented legitimacy at direct negotiations.

And, ultimately, it is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who left the vacuum into which Trump decided to insert Boehler. For months:
Netanyahu chose not to strive for the implementation of the hostage-ceasefire deal that he and his ministers approved and conveyed to the US in May.

And after the protracted weekly rounds of phase one implementation — had finally begun in January
1. of agonizing hostage releases,
2. prisoner releases
3. and a ceasefire —

Netanyahu then chose not to press on to phase two of the deal, when:
1. some 24 living hostages stand to be released in exchange for many more freed terrorists,
2. a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza
3. and a permanent ceasefire.

Consequently, Hamas since March 1 — outrageously and untenably — has been enjoying all the benefits of a cessation of war without releasing any hostages.

It was Netanyahu, too, who elected to sideline Mossad chief David Barnea and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar from the negotiations — men whose life’s work has been dedicated to the security of Israel — and instead install Dermer, who ostensibly speaks Trump.

Yet Dermer was blindsided by the president and his envoy Boehler.