U.S. Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler defended the United States’s negotiating directly with the Hamas terrorist group, though he acknowledged why Israeli officials were upset over the move.
“At the same time, we’re the United States,” Boehler stated on CNN. “We’re not an agent of Israel. We have specific interests at play, and we did communicate back and forth. We had very specific parameters by which we fell, and the reality is what I wanted to do is jump-start some negotiations that were in a very fragile place.”
Boehler further explained that he wanted to ask Hamas, “What is the endgame that you want here?” Buehler said this question was posed since it is “very hard to reach some sort of truce” until the U.S. learns
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