Qatari Leader Meets with Trump, Discuss Pushing Through Trump Plan to Block Bibi

Sept. 15—U.S. President Donald Trump met with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani over dinner on Friday night, Sept. 12, the White House confirmed to media. No further details were made available, other than various reports that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was also present.

Sources close to the White House report that the two discussed getting Hamas to accept the Trump Plan for a full release of the hostages in exchange for a ceasefire and an end to the war. Trump told Al Thani that Hamas must see this as the only way to give leverage to the President to stop the plans of the Butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to launch a new wave of slaughter in Gaza. The President praised the Qatari leader for playing a crucial role in bringing this crisis to a point where it can be resolved. Trump asked him to stay the course as a mediator, and to get Hamas to strike a blow against Bibi and agree to the President's peace terms. 

The sources say that the President gave Minister Al Thani his personal guarantee that once the war stops, he will not let Bibi start it again. He reportedly also said that the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wants the war to stop and will help him, Trump, end this.

But Hamas must agree to the terms, Trump is reported to have said. They are not surrendering, Trump stated. They are asking for my protection and cooperation as they transition to something else, for the good of the Palestinian people. 

The two reportedly also discussed the shape of the future leadership of Gaza and the Palestinians. Trump said that this cannot just be the Palestinian Authority, and the Qatari leader agreed.

Most importantly, he apologized to the Qatari leader for what happened and stressed that Bibi did this behind his back. But it will never happen again, Trump said. I told the Israelis that we will protect Qatar, he said, and that he would come to their aid if attacked. Bibi controls the air force, but he does not control the military. They do not want to fight the United States.

Al Thani reportedly told the President that he would see what he could do. He was sure that Hamas would listen carefully to what was said and would consider how to re-act. 

Meanwhile, other sources say that the Doha attack failed because there were some covert warnings transmitted, that came the sources thought came from inside Israel. 

The Prime Minister also met with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an hour at the White House prior to the dinner. “A source briefed on the meeting said they discussed Qatar’s future as a mediator in the region and defense cooperation in the wake of the Israeli strikes against Hamas in Doha,” Reuters reported. No other details have been released.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted today that there is some concern in the administration over what joint measures might be adopted against Israel at the Sept. 15 emergency Arab-Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Doha over the bombing. Rubio told reporters, as he was waiting on the tarmac to board a plane to Israel, that “we” had talked to Sheikh Mohammed “a little bit about it yesterday. I’m not sure that he had settled on exactly what it is they’re going to ask of their allies in the region…. Obviously we’re not going to be at that meeting,” he added.

The afternoon before, Al Thani had personally addressed a special UN Security Council meeting, called to discuss Israel’s attack on Doha. He called Israel’s bombing of the residence in Doha, the Qatari capital, "a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of a full UN member state, carried out by an extremist leadership far removed from the behavior of civilized nations committed to peace…. Violating the sovereignty of a country actively working to broker a ceasefire and save lives places the entire international system to a serious test….

“In addition to the genocide in Gaza and the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe there which the international community has failed to deter, the Israeli destructive hand was now reaching sovereign states and destabilizing the region without accountability.”

He remarked that the arrogance of the Israeli leadership has reached the point that they openly speak to their domestic audiences about “reshaping the region by force, driven by messianic motives and extremist ideology, assuming that no one beyond their own supporters was listening.”