Trump Forced Bibi to Apologize to Qatar for Doha Strike
Oct. 2—President Donald Trump forced a clearly angry Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu Sept. 29 to apologize to the Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani for Israel's Sept. 9 attack on Hamas in Doha, something that Bibi had told the world last week at the UNGA was perfectly within Israel's right.
The apology came in a phone call initiated by Trump, and sources close to the White House report that the President had demanded the public apology from Netanyahu before his release of the 20-point Trump Peace Plan for Gaza.
Trump, these sources say, had a bitter exchange with Netanyahu right after the attack, which had taken place without U.S. approval or warning, in which Trump called Bibi a "crazy man" who was endangering all that Trump had been working to achieve in the region, and would weaken confidence Arab leaders had in him personally. "You are never going to do something like this again," he told Netanyahu, who had stupidly tried to argue that it’s Israel's right to go after Hamas leaders wherever they are. The sources say Trump sternly asked Netanyahu, "Well do you want peace? I am beginning to think not."
Other sources report that the Doha attack had failed to kill the Hamas negotiating team or its leaders because of a warning that "came from somewhere in the Israel" moments before the strike.
Diplomatic Reassurances and Peace Plan Adjustments
Trump had also met with Al Thani for dinner at the Trump Tower in New York to reassure him that this would never happen again and that he regarded Qatar as an important ally for peace and asked him to continue his negotiating efforts with Hamas to seek an accord. He also revealed at that meeting that he would call a meeting with Arab and Muslim nations next week at the UN to go over what he and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had worked out—a 21-point comprehensive peace plan for Gaza.
One of the points in that plan was a statement that Israel would never attack Qatar.
That point was dropped, at the request of Bibi, who said he would never be able to sell that wording to the Kahanist lunatics in his coalition. Sources report that Trump came back with, if you don't want it in the plan, then you will make a public apology to Qatar and Al Thani.
During the call, Netanyahu “expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” an official White House readout said.
The Israeli premier “further expressed regret that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future,” it continued.
During the call, the Qatari premier “welcomed these assurances, emphasizing Qatar’s readiness to continue contributing meaningfully to regional security and stability,” the US readout said, noting that Netanyahu “expressed commitment to the same.”
The readout issued by Netanyahu’s office said he told Al Thani that “Israel has no plan to violate your sovereignty again in the future, and I have made that commitment to the president.”
“I want to assure you that Israel was targeting Hamas, not Qataris,” the statement quoted Netanyahu saying.
Netanyahu told Al Thani that he knows “your leadership has grievances against Israel and Israel has grievances against Qatar, from support for the Muslim Brotherhood to how Israel is portrayed on Al Jazeera to support for anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.” He added that he welcomed Trump’s initiative of establishing a trilateral forum to address “outstanding grievances,” the Israeli readout said.
"Trump knew he was essentially making Bibi eat shit," said the source close to the White House. "But he had to do this, if for no other reason than to show the Arab partners, and also Hamas, that he can enforce his will on the wildman Netanyahu. This is critical if the peace plan is going to work, because people know Bibi wants to violate its terms and restart the war."
Coalition Backlash and Political Fallout
Meanwhile, Bibi's apology triggered the expected lunacy from his Kahanist coalition partners.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir took to social media, calling the Sept. 9 strike in Doha “important, just, and supremely moral.” Calling Qatar “an enemy state,” the lunatic messianic minister said that “whoever sends monsters to burn babies, rape women, and abduct elderly women must know that there is no place in the world where he is safe.”
“It is time to tell the world the truth: Qatar is a state that supports terrorism, funds terrorism, and incites terrorism,” he continued. “No money will cleanse the terrorism from their hands.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich compared the apology to the Munich Agreement of 1938 between Nazi Germany and Great Britain, France, and Italy. The agreement was signed exactly 87 years ago on Sept. 30.
U.S. Will Defend Qatar if Struck
Yesterday, the White House made it known President Trump has signed an executive order saying that any armed attack against Qatar would be considered "a threat to the peace and security of the United States."
"In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar and to restore peace and stability," reads the executive order, which was dated Monday, Sept. 29--the day of Bibi's apology.
"I am sure that Bibi is having one of his now more frequent rug-chewing fits," said another source, close to the peace negotiations.