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They rarely have representatives of existing and new presidents of other parties worked in combination at such an important time. But the president and president elected have completely shared the credit.

By David E. Sanger and Michael D. Shear

When President-elect Donald J. Trump Steve Witkoff met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Saturday to push him through a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, there someone on speakerphone: Brett H. McGurk, President Biden’s longtime Middle East negotiator.

Mr. McGurk was in Doha, Qatar, leading the final round of negotiations for a cease-fire.

It is a living example of cooperation between two men representing agrio political rivals. Rarely, never, the groups of existing and new presidents of other parts worked in combination at such a high time, with the fate of American life and the long execution of a suspended devastating war.

Both Trump and Biden have loans for progress.

“This epic high -fire agreement can only have happened after our historical victory in November,” Trump wrote at his social media site even before the agreement was officially announced to Middle East.

In the White House, Biden told Newshouings that his management had worked tirelessly for months to convince any of the parties to avoid fighting. He called it “one of the maximum and complicated negotiations that I have met” and paid tribute to “an ordinary American diplomat team that have constantly worked for months to do so. “

Leaving the work, a journalist asked Mr. Biden: “Who gets the credits for this, Mr. President, you or Trump?” Mr. Biden stopped, around and smiled.

“Is it a joke? He asked.

But despite the tension between the existing president and subsequent presidents, his representatives in the Middle East described cooperative employment dating back to the weeks following Election Day.

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