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How Trump used fury over Israel’s Qatar attack to push Netanyahu on Gaza
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Twenty days after Israel's Sept 9 strike on Qatar, Israeli PM Netanyahu and US President Trump declared support for a peace plan.
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Mark Mazzetti, Adam Rasgon, Katie Rogers and Luke Broadwater
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WASHINGTON – The Israeli jets over the Red Sea launched a volley of missiles that arced high into the atmosphere and came down on a residential neighbourhood in Doha, Qatar, where Hamas representatives were discussing the possibility of a plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip.
The Sept 9 strike was a stunning provocation by Israel – negotiation by bombing the negotiators. Even more than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s other aggressive acts in the Middle East over the past year, this one so rankled government officials both in the region and in Washington that it threatened to blow up the prospects for a ceasefire.
