Without Deep-State Grooming and Credentials, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Prove to Be Diplomats Extraordinaire

Out goes the established view that you have to be a D.C. Swamp Graduate to succeed at politics and diplomacy. Businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have pulled off a diplomatic coup — which is yet to unfold in reality, however — that predecessors with decades of government service never came close to achieving.

Both Witkoff and Kushner were in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday as Netanyahu’s cabinet approved Phase One of the Israeli-Hamas peace accord. If the accord fulfills its promise, it will bring peace to the Middle East for the first time in decades.

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Phase One calls for Israel to withdraw its military forces to pre-determined lines and for Hamas to release all remaining 48 hostages, dead and alive. Israel has 24 hours for its part, and following that, Hamas has 72 hours to fulfill its obligation.

Both sides, as I write this, have yet to act fully on their obligations. Israel last night was still active militarily.

What’s remarkable — if everything pans out successfully, or even approaches full compliance — is that both Witkoff and Kushner are businessmen, not government rats with deep credentials.

Kushner, of course, is the main player behind the Abraham Accords from Trump 45, a coalition that played a large part in the recent peace negotiations.

Both Kushner and Witkoff are real estate investors. Kushner, of course, is also Trump’s son-in-law, and Witkoff is a longtime Trump golf partner.

Their success on the diplomatic front suggests that the Founding Fathers were right. Government should be run by citizen politicians, not by bureaucrats on lifetime federal tenure.

PICTURED: Witkoff and Kushner join Benjamin Netanyahu at the prime minister’s cabinet meeting that approved Phase One of the Hamas peace accord.