Prominent members of the progressive left are crediting President-elect Donald Trump for the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, which comes just days before he reassumes the presidency.
Many pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel progressives, who have been highly critical of the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to reach a ceasefire, weighed in to either further bash the outgoing administration or laud Trump for already bringing peace on the foreign policy front.
The Biden administration reportedly allowed Trump’s incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, to lead key negotiations last week.
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Journalist Saagar Enjeti, who co-hosts Breaking Points with Krystal Ball, said the tiered ceasefire agreement is both a shining moment for Trump and an awful blemish for Biden.
“An incredible achievement by Trump and an incredible humiliation of Joe Biden,” he wrote in a post on X.
Journalist Ryan Grim, the co-host of Counter Points and editor of Drop Site News, said on Wednesday’s show that this agreement between Israel and Hamas is something that could earn a president the Nobel Peace Prize “in another world”:
Grim’s comment came during a brief tangent while foreshadowing guest Robert Goldston, a Princeton astrophysicist who penned an op-ed for Fox News several weeks ago contending Trump has the potential to earn three Nobel Peace Prizes:
[Goldston] wrote this essay for Fox News before Trump kind of slammed a ceasefire on Israel, which, frankly, in another kind of world could generate a Nobel Peace Prize for an American president. Donald Trump has a steeper hill to climb to win that prize because he’s Donald Trump and its ludicrous to consider him getting a Nobel Peace Prize, but [Goldston] lays out how over the next four years he’s actually set up to resolve three major sources of conflict and could legitimately deserve, if he pulled that off, three Nobel Peace Prizes.
Pulitzer Prize-winning independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, the host of System Update, lauded Trump in a post critical of Israel:
“I don’t care what you think of Trump. I don’t care what Trump’s motives are or what else he promised Israel, which I’m sure is non-trivial,” he wrote in a post on X.
“Anyone who causes an end to Israel’s civilian- destruction in Gaza has done a good thing, and there’s no denying his key role,” he added.
Anti-Israel progressive influencer and podcaster Sabby Sabs bashed Biden and Harris.
“Once again, this is something Biden and Harris could’ve done as well. I don’t like Trump, but he’s showing you what a president can do,” she wrote in a post on X. “I’m just thinking about all those kids who died because Biden is Zionist trash.”
Cal State University, Stanislaus political science professor As’ad AbuKhalil took to X to hammer Biden and Harris, contending they “lied to the Arabs in Michigan” but “Trump didn’t”:
The 2024 election notably saw a realignment of Arab Americans in Michigan, especially in Wayne County, caused by extreme dissatisfaction with the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the war and failure to reach a ceasefire.
Briahna Joy Gray, the national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign and the host of the Bad Faith Podcast, mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who claimed in August that Harris was “working tirelessly” to bring about a ceasefire.
The group “Abandon Harris,” which aimed to ensure Harris’s loss in the presidential election, slammed the outgoing administration in a statement crediting Trump.
In another post on X, the group contended the war would continue “until every last Palestinian in Gaza was wiped out” if Biden or Harris won the election.
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