Donald Trump does not take off. On the phone, he explains to his interlocutor, Benyamin Netanyahu, that he is unbearable for him to have learned the strike of Israeli aviation by the Pentagon, and not by Israel directly, that this decision to strike the territory of an ally of the United States, while a negotiation is in progress to put an end to the war in Gaza, is unacceptable.
To justify himself, the Israeli Prime Minister then explains that he would have made this decision very quickly, benefiting only from a short shooting window. Donald Trump is on the verge of hanging up on him. During a second phone call, the American president calmed down. This time it is curious to know if the strike has eliminated the Hamas staff, something that Trump, his own admission in a tweet, would not see a bad eye. Netanyahu replied that it is necessary to wait a little. Does he already know that the raid has missed his target and that outside the eldest son of Khalil al-Hayya, the chief negotiator of Hamas and close ally of Iran, the only victims to be deplored are bodyguards and a Qatari security officer?
Basically, it doesn’t matter; Because, diplomatically, evil is done. By targeting a sovereign country, which he has done four other times in the last three months with Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen, Israel puts the message that now, if Israeli interests are at stake, the sovereignty of a country no longer has any importance. Certainly, Qatar is known for its connections with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations. The emirate has been hosting Hamas international representation for over twenty years. Ismaël Haniyeh, killed by Mossad in Tehran in July 2024, and Khaled Mechaal had their residence there. But Qatar acted with Hamas as he did with the Taliban, according to him under the injunction of the United States and with the agreement of the latter, welcoming several years during the representatives of these terrorist groups for negotiations. Because the emirate has positioned itself as the hub of international diplomacy, imitated in this by the Sultanate of Oman. With this difference that the radius of action of Qatar goes so far as to intervene in the negotiation between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda by obtaining in July a ceasefire in Kivu.
Americans, accomplices?
The Israeli strike remains in accordance with the posture adopted by Benyamin Netanyahu and his allies since October 7. “I say to Qatar and to all the nations that house terrorists: you must either expel them or to translate them into justice. Because if you don’t, we will do it ”said the Israeli Prime Minister to explain his decision. Last June, Netanyahu had justified the entry into war of his country against Iran to put an end to “The nuclear and ballistic threat of the Islamic regime”. At the time, the Americans had been accused of having shimped to the Iranians that, as long as nuclear negotiations continued, they would remain safe from the Israeli strikes. A meeting between Steve Witkoff, the emissary of Trump, and the Iranian delegates was even scheduled in Mascate (Oman) two days after June 13, date of the start of the strikes. The staff of the revolution guards was decimated in a single strike on their HQ when they were in a meeting. The fact was mentioned that they would probably have taken more precautions if they had believed in the imminence of a war with Israel. This time, Hamas was gathered in Doha to respond to the last American proposal to set up the conflict in Gaza. Some did not hesitate to make the link between the two events to say that the Americans would actually be from start to finish the accomplices of Israel, waving the cloth of the negotiation to allow their ally to strike by surprise.
Turkish services would have warned Hamas of strikes
Officially, the United States was won of the raid while the Israeli missiles were on their way to their target. They would in turn have warned the Qataris. However, it seems improbable that Washington remained in the ignorance of these strikes while, to win Qatar, Israeli aviation had to travel the distance of 1,800 kilometers, crossing the Jordanian, Syrians, Iraqi and Saudi air spaces, before launching ten missiles of precision on the place where the members of Hamas were supposed. The United States is also present in Qatar, where the Al-Uudeid air base, the main one in the Middle East, has detection systems and radars capable of following the slightest aircraft to hundreds of kilometers. Israel admitted to having used F-35 for this operation. Of American manufacturing, these devices remain under electronic surveillance of the United States and NATO for the duration of their operational life, even when they have been sold to another country. Finally, Hamas executives will have escaped the strike which still eliminated part of their close security staff. Some sources claim that the Turkish services would have warned Hamas of the imminent arrival of Israeli planes, allowing the team made up of the chief of negotiators Khalil al-Hayya, Zaher Jabareen, Mohammed Darwish and Hussam Badran to shelter.
Relations put in danger
The fact remains that the most daring operations of Israel against his opponents of Hamas and their allies coincided so far, more or less, with the American agenda and that of Trump in the Middle East. With this strike in the city center of Doha, they deviate radically. Let us recall, on the diplomatic component, that the mediation of Qatar in Gaza allowed twice provisional ceases with hostage liberation at the key. Trump’s repeated objective is to end the war in Gaza and obtain the release of all hostages. From all negotiating countries, Egypt, Jordan or Türkiye, Qatar was the most qualified for this task, its mediation having proven that it gave results. Trump did not fail to emphasize this during a message on his Truth Social network in reaction to the Israeli shot.
The United Arab Emirates, united with their opponent
The American president is deeply embarrassed because of his links with Qatar. On the occasion of his tour in the Middle East last May, Donald Trump returned to Washington with investment promises of $ 1,300 billion for Qatar and 1,400 for the United Arab Emirates, for the next ten years. Investments that America needs and that overlap are as varied as artificial intelligence, defense industries, space, energies and real estate. During his visit to Doha, the American president had even been offered as a gift an airliner by the emir. Qatar now plans to suspend its gas deliveries to Israel as well as its economic ties. Links with the United States are so important that it will certainly not vary. But Trump’s credibility is affected. His ability to also negotiate. Why should we believe in the effectiveness of his mediation on Ukraine if, on the Gaza file, even his ally hides things to him?
The Israeli operation in Doha could also jeopardize the Abraham agreements, Donald Trump’s work in the Middle East, already penalized by Israel’s refusal to envisage a Palestinian state and, even more, by its insistent project to annex the West Bank. Trump planned to extend these agreements to other countries, but the security guaranteed by the United States seems to be questioned. With the Israeli strike a few includes from the largest American base in the region, whose operating costs are fully covered by Qatar, which can now believe that its safety will be guaranteed Ad Vitam by Americans? The visit to Doha, the day after the strike, of the Sheikh Mohammed Ben Zayed is a very bad sign for the future. The president of the United Arab Emirates has long been an adversary of Qatar causing, with Saudi Arabia, the blockade of the country between 2017 and 2021. Will this gesture of solidarity be at the expense of the Abraham agreements whose Emirates, alongside Sudan, Bahrain and Morocco, had been the first signatories?
