Asked aboard Air Force One, en route to Israel, what assurances he has been able to give Israelis and Arab countries about the peace deal he is brokering, U.S. President Donald Trump said that “we have a lot of guarantees.”
“The Israelis are very concerned,” a reporter said.
“We have a lot of verbal guarantees, too, and I don’t think they’re going to want to disappoint me,” Trump said. “I have a lot of verbal guarantees. Guarantees that aren’t down in writing, but they were given to me.”
“I believe they’re going to be held very strongly,” he said. “That’s why I think it’s going to be successful.”
Trump added that “everyone” is happy with the deal.
“Whether it’s Jewish or Muslim or the Arab countries, every country is dancing in the streets,” he said. “It’s a point in time I don’t think you’d ever see again. They’ve never seen it for 3,000 years.”
The U.S. president added that the war is over and that he expects the ceasefire to hold.
Trump said that he has a strong relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he said he had “some disputes” that were “quickly settled” and “had some words” a “couple of times where I didn’t agree.”
He added that the Biden and Obama administrations did a “bad job” trying to broker peace in the region and “everything they did was the opposite of what you should have done.”
The U.S. president also said that the emir of Qatar “is an amazing man who really helped us” and that “Qatar should start getting some credit.”
