Donald Trump said Monday, September 15 that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would no longer hit Qatar, after the unprecedented attack led by Israel last week in Doha against Hamas Chiefs.
“He will not attack in Qatar,” the US president told journalists at the Oval office after Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to exclude new strikes during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jerusalem.
This Sunday, the US president had warned Israel against a new attack against Qatar’s soil. “Qatar is a very good ally. Israel and everyone else, you have to be careful. When you attack people, you have to be careful,” Donald Trump told journalists this Sunday, who said he was “very unhappy” with the Israeli assault on Tuesday, September 9 in this country that houses Hamas’ political office, but also the most important American base in the region.
Iran calls Arab and Muslim countries to “unite”
In his opening speech of a Summit of Arab and Muslim leaders, Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani, accused Israel on Monday of wanting “negotiation failures.”
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “dreams that the Arab region becomes a sphere of Israeli influence. And it is a dangerous illusion,” he continued before the Arabs and Muslims in Doha, including the Palestinian, Turkish, Iranian and Egyptian presidents, as well as the Iraqi Prince and Pakistani, the King of Jordan and Saudi.
The Israeli attack, who killed five members of Hamas and a member of the Qatar security forces, caused a wave of international convictions, including the rich monarchies of the Gulf, the allies of Washington, as well as a rare reprobation of the United States, an ally number one of Israel but also a close ally of Qatar.
“Tomorrow, it could be the turn of any Arab or Islamic capital,” warned Iranian President Massaud fishshkian, whose country had attacked an American base in Qatar during his 12 -day war against Israel in June.
“The choice is clear. We have to unite,” he said. The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, whose country was the first Arab State to recognize Israel, warned that this attack “erect obstacles before any perspective of the new peace agreements and even compromises existing agreements with countries of the region.”
Israel and its main ally, Washington, seek to extend the Abraham agreements, which have established relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020, in particular courting Saudi Arabia, oil weight in the region. Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the other hand, accused the Israeli government of wanting to “continue the massacres and genocide in Palestine while destabilizing the region.” The six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (CCG), which met outside the summit in Doha, asked the United States to “use their influence” to contain Israel.
“We expect from the United States, our strategic partner, who use their influence in Israel so that this country ends such acts,” he said at a press conference in Doha Jassem al-Budaiwi, the general secretary of CCG, which brings together Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Omar.
Source: BFM TV
