Doha strike tests Trump-Netanyahu partnership

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WASHINGTON: Less than four months ago, President Donald Trump met the leader of Qatar, and praised his passionate palace, and signed a defense agreement with the Gulf Kingdom, an important ally that hosts the Middle East’s largest US base.

Israel’s surprising attack against Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday shocked the relationship, which has angered Trump and strongly condemned Doha and Western allies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order and the Palestinian group’s political offices, killing a Qatari security agent and five others, but failed to kill Hamas leaders. Trump said he was “very unhappy in every aspect of the Israeli operation”.

But with all these anger, the strikes are unlikely to change the president’s basic point of view about Israel. If anything, the bombings identified cold calculus under Trump-Netanyahu relations.

Israel has shown that US is not afraid to work against interests. US officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration did not formally warn Washington with its upcoming bombing campaign.

The lack of warning remembered Israel’s September 2024 attack on Hezbollah, when Israel wounded thousands of members of the group with a Bobby Pijers, without telling the then President Joe Biden.

Trump, on his own, occasionally expressed his displeasure with Netanyahu. But his administration has strongly supported the Israeli campaign to weaken Hamas and has allowed it to take a large lead in important issues like Iran’s nuclear program.

“On this, I think Trump is angry with Netanyahu’s tactics,” said Aaron David Miller, senior fellow of international peace and experienced US peace talks.

But, Miller added, “(Trump’s) is that he agrees with Netanyahu’s view that Hamas cannot be hollowed out as a military organization. It needs to be weakened primarily.”

The White House cited Reuters for Trump’s remarks on Tuesday night, while he said that the bombings did not advance us or Israeli interests.

“However,” Trump wrote, “Eliminating Hamas, who has profitable the suffering of Gaza, is a purpose.”

The Israeli embassy in Washington did not respond to a request to comment.

No possibility of bursting

Some analysts refused to reject the possibility that if Netanyahu snatches more surprises in Washington, they can end Trump’s patience.

In practice, this may mean that Israel’s return to the political cover for the ongoing attack on Gaza, which has led to anger in European and Arab countries as soon as the famine conditions spread.

Israeli military campaign in the Palestinian Enclave was mobilized October 7, 2023 by a Hamas -led mob in southern Israel.

“Since his Arab friends complain about Israel’s actions – and they are doing so now – he can tell them that Gaza will give me a reliable plan for this day and with Hamas replacement, and I will tell Baby that you have done a lot of work,” Dennis Ross said for a democratic and Republican administration.

The Israeli strike in Doha will potentially reduce Trump’s hopes for the Gulf states joining the Ibrahim agreements, which is an important agreement with their first administration in which several Arab countries have established diplomatic relations with Israel.

Former Israeli ambassador to the Israeli state of the United States, Michael Orion, argued that the two men were unlikely to spread, adding that Trump praised power and transactions by ending the wars.

“If Netanyahu can continue to appeal to these presidents of the president, he will be fine, I am not worried about this relationship.”

Warm and cold

Administration officials have acknowledged that Trump has seen fluctuations in Netanyahu partnerships.

“It has been hot and cold since the campaign,” said a senior White House official.

In May, Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates while leaving Israel, leaving Israel, which many analysts saw as a symbol. The Republican President returned to office in January promising to reinstate relations with Netanyahu, promising to deteriorate under his democratic predecessor.

During this trip, Trump agreed to lift sanctions on the Syrian government at the behest of Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The move endangered Israeli officials who question the objectives of former al -Qaeda commander, Syrian President Ahmad al -Shahara.

But just a month later, the Trump-Netanyahu coalition again appeared on the track. Israel, after the launch of the air war against Iran in June, Trump-who launched a campaign to end foreign conflicts-even surprised its own political allies that B2 bombers were sent to partially eliminate Iran’s key nuclear facilities.

If he created goodwill within the Netanyahu administration, it did not benefit the interests of Trump’s foreign policy in the short term.

A few days later, Trump punished Iran and Israel for breaking the US broker Seas fire. In July, the United States appeared to be criticizing the Israeli strike in Damascus, which destroyed some part of the Syrian Defense Ministry. And on Tuesday, Israel notified the United States shortly before the Qatar strike, but Washington received no harmony or approval.

“The United States can try to pushing and pushing Israel to make decisions,” said Jonathan Panikov, a former Middle East national intelligence officer. “But Netanyahu will continue to work in a way he looks only like Israel’s best interests.”