Trump appears sidelined as the US caught unawares by Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Qatar | Qatar
After Israeli air strikes, the White House, aiming at Hamas negotiators in the heart of Doha, the capital of Qatar, refrained from stopping a conflict that Donald Trump claimed to be just mediating.
Before the extraordinary strike on Tuesday, the details of the diplomatic hurry were explained, as it was claimed how the White House had opened its last front in the war against Hamas – it was a host of US negotiations after claiming that Trump was close to an agreement.
Instead, the Trump administration once again seems to be a surprise that increases the efforts of a new nuclear agreement to negotiate with Tehran, as in Israel’s strikes against Iranian military and nuclear program goals in June.
Trump officials said the warnings of the strikes approaching Qatar came so late.
Qatar Prime Minister said on Tuesday, whether the US had a closer coordination with the Israelites on the strike, and that the White House informed the authorities of Qatar only ten minutes after the attack.
“I immediately directed Steve Witkoff to inform the approaching attack on the upcoming attack, but unfortunately it is too late to stop the attack, Tr Trump said.
Tuesday afternoon, the White House was caught between the policy of supporting Israel’s war against Hamas and the policy of regulating the most important US alliance in the region with its ties close to Witkoff.
The rope march by the administration on Tuesday, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a reason for both a condemnation and the strike in a desperate statement to maintain the Katari government.
Leavitt, the White House Press Room podium, “Qatar is being bombed unilaterally, a dominant nation and the United States of the United States of the United States and the bold risk for peace, the close ally Israel or America does not advance the goals of the American,” he said.
However, he added a implicit confirmation of the strike and said, “It is a valuable goal to eliminate Hamas, who benefited from the misery of the inhabitants of Gaza,” he said.
The strikes can mark the end of the cease -fire negotiation process in Qatar, which has been negotiating between Israel and Hamas for nearly two years.
Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Tuesday that the country will continue to mediate between Israel and Hamas, but “I do not think that there is something valid after what we see from today’s attack for the current talks.”
“It is hard to imagine that the trades pass from where they left off,” in question Steven Cook is a senior member of the Foreign Relations Council. “From Doha’s point of view, Qatar recorded Israeli hostages only to repay it with an air strike in their countries.”
Egypt can act as a mediator instead, Cook Cook said, but “neither the Israeli government nor the Hamas leadership is not interested in an agreement”.
Rachel Brandenburg, General Manager of Washington, and his senior member Rachel Brandenburg at the Israeli Policy Forum, said, “I think Prime Minister Netanyahu is questioning what his intention is,” he said. War on the Rocks. “If it is really serious about negotiations and seriously in the end of the war, why do you shoot political leaders who negotiate?”
Despite the questions about Qatar’s impact on Hamas and whether the leaders of the militant group can negotiate in good faith, he said, iz You need a mediator and you need someone to negotiate and makes this conversation much more difficult. ”
Qatar was targeted by an Iranian missile dam that was easily separated by US missile defense systems, a US military base in the Gulf country, and was caught on a cross -fire after a strike to the US nuclear facilities in June.
On Tuesday, Trump said that he guaranteed to al-Thani and Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that he would “never happen on the lands of such a thing”.
But Israel proposed the opposite. After searching for the emergency session of the Algerian UN Security Council, Israel Ambassador Danny Danon said, “There will be no immunity for terrorists, not in Gaza, Lebanon or Qatar.”
