{"id":133220,"date":"2025-08-10T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133220\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:07:10","slug":"palestinian-american-mediator-quits-us-talks-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133220\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian-American mediator quits US talks delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though not an official member, Bahbah declared he would now operate independently. In a Facebook post addressed to Gaza\u2019s residents, he wrote, \u201cI\u2019m not a mediator in the full sense but I share your suffering. My role is to carry your voice to those responsible, big and small. I haven\u2019t forgotten you and never will. Ceasefire talks are currently stalled.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump, Bishara Bahbah, Vice Presidnet JD Vance <\/p>\n

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In late May, Bahbah proposed a 70-day ceasefire plan involving the release of 10 hostages in two phases. A senior Israeli official dismissed it, saying, \u201cNo Israeli government would accept this proposal. Hamas\u2019s conditions undermine the war\u2019s objectives and hinder hostage releases.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bahbah facilitated indirect talks between the U.S. and Hamas, notably brokering Alexander\u2019s release, an initiative driven by Hamas rather than the U.S. Direct negotiations collapsed after an alleged Israeli leak aimed at derailing them, coupled with Jerusalem\u2019s sharp criticism. <\/p>\n

Razi Hamed, a senior Hamas negotiator, then contacted Bahbah through Suha Arafat, proposing Alexander\u2019s release. Sources told Ynet that Hamas representatives in Doha and Gaza secured a U.S. commitment to press Israel for renewed humanitarian aid to Gaza through this channel.<\/p>\n

A vocal advocate for a two-state solution, Bahbah served in the Palestinian delegation during multilateral peace talks in the 1990s. He later edited the Palestinian newspaper Al-Fajr and engaged in humanitarian work, authoring numerous articles on Middle Eastern political and social issues. <\/p>\n

Despite building a life in the U.S., Bahbah remains deeply tied to his homeland. \u201cIt will always be my home, no matter where I live,\u201d he told Arab News in 2018. \u201cMy children were born in the U.S., but I registered them with UNRWA. When I die, I want to be remembered as a Palestinian. It\u2019s our eternal right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though not an official member, Bahbah declared he would now operate independently. In a Facebook post addressed to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-133220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115002031810283910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}