{"id":314186,"date":"2025-08-24T05:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314186"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:02:35","slug":"matthew-miller-admits-netanyahu-not-hamas-scuppered-gaza-truce-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314186","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Miller admits Netanyahu, not Hamas, scuppered Gaza truce deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRT Global \u2013 Aug 23, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliberately obstructed <\/a>efforts to secure ceasefire and release of captives from Gaza in agreements with Hamas, a former US official has told Israel’s Channel 13<\/em>, in a bombshell interview.<\/p>\n

Matthew Miller, a former State Department spokesperson under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, stressed that Washington debated publicly accusing Netanyahu of being “completely intransigent” but refrained, fearing Hamas would exploit US\u2013Israel divisions.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to speak very toughly to the government of Israel behind closed doors, but ultimately not do anything that would make it harder to get to a deal,” Miller said.<\/p>\n

Miller cited an April 2024 instance where US officials urged Hamas to accept a six-week truce, potentially delaying Israel’s Rafah invasion.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Netanyahu declared <\/a>Israel would enter Rafah “whether there was a ceasefire or not.”<\/p>\n

Miller stated the comment undermined the leverage mediators required.<\/p>\n

“You can imagine how much harder that made it to get a deal over the line\u2026 [as it removed] the chief motivation [for Hamas] to agree to a deal.”<\/p>\n

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Former State Department spokesperson under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Matthew Miller, says Israel deliberately sabotaged deals that Hamas had accepted. He added that Netanyahu told US officials his plan was for decades of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":314188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314229,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314186\/revisions\/314229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/314188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}