“We’re not an agent of Israel. We have specific interests at play, and we did communicate back and forth. We had very specific parameters by which we fell. And the reality is, what I wanted to do is jumpstart some negotiations that were in a very fragile place. And I wanted to say to Hamas, ‘What is the end game that you want here?’” Adam Boehler, President Donald Trump’s hostage affairs envoy, Why did the US break with tradition and hold talks with Hamas? [ME Eye]