By William Koenig, November 29, 2025
President-elect Trump already has four billionaires working on a future Middle East, expanding the Abraham Accords and a possible two state plan. I have four articles below with highlights on these men. Witkoff, Boulos, Kushner and Musk have already profited from their Middle East connections. Trump too. (Check the article below. I’ll have more in-depth reports on this soon.)
US Ambassador to Israel nominee Mike Huckabee
Moreover, Trump nominees for U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is already taking shots from the Jewish left and Middle East interests.
Mike has said publicly he supports a one-state plan, continues to call the West Bank Judea and Samaria, and has said there really is no such thing as a Palestinian.’ But, he has said recently that he is to serve President Trump’s desires.
I emailed Mike this week and told him the prayer support from many of us will pick up exponentially as he moves towards his Senate Hearing. I mentioned that I was at David Friedman’s Senate hearing in 2017.
I know the questioning will be intense from the Democrats. Friedman took heat for financially supporting the settlement communities in the West Bank before his nomination, which he calls Judea and Samaria. I interviewed him at the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in New York City on September 15 about his new book, “One Jewish State” and attended his Middle East Summit in Jerusalem, October 29, 2024.
Prayer and Policy Webinar for Mike Huckabee – December 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm ET
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Hawk on Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and threats to Israel
Mike Huckabee will be strong on Iran and Hezbollah. He has seen firsthand the heinous violence of Hamas.
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Trump in-law Boulos setting up contacts with PA’s Abbas, official confirm
November 10, 2024
Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law Massad Boulos, a key Arab surrogate for the US president-elect, met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September, a senior Palestinian official tells The Times of Israel.
The meeting between Abbas and Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman, was cordial, the Palestinian official says, confirming reporting in The New York Times. Abbas emphasized his willingness to work with Trump in order to reach a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Boulos and Bishara Bahbah, who heads Arab Americans for Trump, helped orchestrate a letter Abbas sent to Trump wishing him well after a July assassination attempt.
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JUST IN: Trump names Boulos, his mechuten, as senior Arab, Middle East adviser
December 1, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stated on Sunday morning that his mechuten Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-born billionaire whose son Michael is married to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, will be his senior adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs.
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How a Real Estate Mogul Became Trump’s Middle East Point Man
November 17, 2024
Last year Witkoff sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel to the Qatari Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign-wealth fund, for $623 million. Abu Dhabi’s investment fund was also involved.
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Kushner said expected to play key role in Trump’s Mideast policy
November 16, 2024
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is reportedly expected to play a key role in the crafting and implementation of his father-in-law’s Mideast policy over the next four years, even though he won’t be formally part of the administration.
CNN on Friday cited several regional diplomats and Trump allies who voiced this expectation. Sources familiar with Kushner’s thinking similarly said he was unlikely to take a job in the administration but will likely be an outside adviser.
“No one on the incoming team has what Jared has, and that is trust. Jared earned it, he didn’t have it at the beginning. He earned it. That takes time to build,” said a regional diplomat.
“Friendships are forever in this region,” an Israeli source who dealt with the first Trump administration told CNN. “My assumption is that his role is much more in his hands than anybody else’s.”
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Elon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say
November 14, 2024
Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as “positive” and “good news.”
Asked about whether there was such a session, Steven Cheung, Mr. Trump’s communications director, said, “We do not comment on reports of private meetings that did or did not occur.” Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.