Another Country to Join Abraham Accords Tonight, US Special Envoy Witkoff Confirms

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has announced that a new country will formally join the Abraham Accords later tonight, expanding the historic agreements that strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with Israel. Witkoff, who is returning to Washington, DC for the announcement, did not reveal which country will be joining. The development comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East following Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, which has sparked widespread anger across the region. Countries previously expected to join, including Saudi Arabia, have now indicated that they will not participate without significant concessions toward the creation of a Palestinian state.

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00:00people they've they've they're not going to give up for any of the remaining bodies you know a lot

00:07of business people entrepreneurs in this audience you've dealt with some of the most complex

00:11negotiations now and dynamics around the world you obviously dealt with complex negotiations in

00:17your business life before that but what did you learn about negotiation and trust and leadership

00:22since being in this job well trust and integrity is everything and and people have to respect you

00:29and believe in you world leaders today respect and trust the United States of America because of

00:36Donald Trump's leadership and that's just a fact thank you he is I don't think they're used to that

00:47I think they were used to people before he was before this election who would say certain things

00:53and not do what they say and he does what he says and it carries a lot of weight in the world

00:59you know the Abraham Accords kind of reshaped obviously parts of the Middle East political

01:05economic landscape from your perspective what's the next frontier for regional collaboration and

01:11what does that look like well look Abraham Accords are big I'm flying back to Washington tonight

01:18because we're going to announce tonight another country coming into the Abraham Accords tonight

01:22yeah

01:22so do you want to you know lift the curtain here or do you want to I have a show at six o'clock

01:29I don't I don't know if it's out yet and and the president constantly says that um you know he

01:36he thinks it's important and you know how I do my job because I do it in this way and I'm not a leaker

01:42okay all right so um well if you can tell me I don't know me before special report that'd be

01:47helpful I I think it's going to be news by like 6 30 tonight okay all right we'll get it on but

01:53bigger picture next frontier you think more things are happening dominoes are falling well look we have

02:00to we're going the the critical piece of Gaza now is implementing I was on the phone before I just got

02:08in with um the Turkish uh foreign minister with Ron Dermer so uh Jared I and a very very very strong

02:17team are very focused on implementation what what you know what what you learned in the when I learned

02:23in the real estate business is just because you bought the deal didn't mean you were going to make

02:26any money from it and so you really had to be focused on the execution what the what the exit plan

02:34was and execute correctly and that's what we're doing in Gaza and I think if we hold it together

02:39then we'll have even more credibility around the world and I'm very confident we will hold it

02:44together and we will complete the mission I also think that what we're trying to do in Gaza with the

02:49CMCC where we're bringing a lot of countries together consensually to work with one another

02:54that is the paradigm or the model for what will happen in Ukraine Russia when we settle that and we

03:02we will settle it and I think that'll probably that's probably the most important one to settle

03:06next yeah um let me just finish with Gaza you know for some people who look at it and say

03:14it's stuck in second gear and it's not moving forward I know you see things that we don't see

03:21the thought was that these Gulf nations perhaps other Arab countries were going to put forces in and

03:27then Hamas would disarm eventually you're saying it is step by step moving that way well first of

03:35all Hamas has always indicated that they would disarm they've said so they've said it to us directly in

03:40that famous meeting that Jared had with them and so I I hope that they keep their word because I think if

03:47they do they'll understand that the development plan that we have for Gaza is really terrific a lot better

03:54than everyone and anyone has ever discussed before how we're going to finance it aspirational upside for

04:00the people to be a part of it tremendous jobs program so I think as people begin to see what

04:09we're going to do there I think they're going to going to be very very bought in but that said

04:14and in you know just to explain Hamas's position we we are right in the middle of standing up a d a

04:24decommissioning process of weapons a demilitarization an amnesty program and Hamas has always said that

04:31we're going to going to need the international security force to come in here and be the layer who

04:36they give the weapons to and we haven't finished that yet that hopefully finishes in the next three weeks

04:42and we think that'll be the opportunity that'll be the inflection point where we see if everyone's

04:47going to do as they say they're going to do and demilitarize and we may even get a look by the way

04:54and you know in a microcosm sort of way we may see the model of what we're trying to do here or what

05:00we intend to do here with these 200 fighters who are trapped in Rafa and whether they're going to be

05:08able to raise their hands walk out turn over their weapons and so this will be this will be one of

05:13the tests you talk about Russia Ukraine you talked about trust and leadership it seems like people

05:21looking from the outside and maybe on the inside don't really believe they could trust Russian

05:28President Vladimir Putin you suggest that it is moving forward what would you say to this well I

05:34mean he's never I I've met with him six times and and they were I mean I don't know that there was a

05:42meeting less than four hours that they in some some meetings were as long as five hours and I think

05:49it's a tough struggle I think we we have a lot of work to do with regard to security protocols for

05:55Ukraine there's a lot of discussion that technical teams have to have have happened but at the lower

06:02level before the leaders can get to a deal but I sense that there's some break there's some progress

06:08today and but I think it's a tough conflict I think that both sides don't trust each other and that's a

06:15really difficult place to be it's the same it's the same issues we had in Israel Hamas thinks that the

06:20Israel Israel will not keep its word and Israel feels that Hamas will not keep its word and we had some

06:27very you know straightforward blunt conversations with both sides about needing to take the chance

06:33and I am hopeful that in the Russia Ukraine conflict people will make bold leadership decisions and take

06:40that chance what surprised you most about working in government compared to the private sector God I

06:49I think I think the private sector was a setup for me it really was and New York's a tough place and it's

06:57certainly a tough place to crack into but we managed to do it and it was all about hard work I don't know I

07:05don't remember I don't think I took a vacation in the first three or four years of my professional life like you

07:11you couldn't find people today who would who would tell you that so I think it's about a lot of hard work and

07:18I'm working for a man Brett as you know who has this obsessive indomitable streak nothing satisfies satisfies

07:29him after you've told him that you've made the deal and I don't mean that he's not grateful for it he wants to

07:36push on and get the next one done that's who he is he just wants to make the world a better place and

07:42it is this constant drive to do that I remember when we called the president we said we had a deal

07:48Jared and I we had a deal in Gaza and he said that's wonderful how we doing in Russia

07:53and I think that's who you want the commander-in-chief and I think that's who you want the commander-in-chief and I'm

08:06holding on a lot of fear and I thought the commander-in-chief is one of the biggest things that we

08:09could take happen and they don't know the commander-in-chief and I think that's the

08:11first time we have the commander-in-chief that we should go there and have a deal

08:13that's what we get because you have to do and we take the commander-in-chief from the

08:18what he wants to do and you're trying to do with the commander-in-chief of the commander-in-chief

08:20so let's do this to do and I think that's what I want to do for somebody to be

08:22a good buddy for you and I think that's who you want to do it

08:25right, we have to do with your boss'rifice, so let's say that we're

08:27not just how we do it. We'll need it to tell you. We just wanna do that around

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