Trump instructed Netanyahu to read Qatar apology drafted by White House – report • FRANCE 24

going to focus on a report from the news outlet Politico now, which is claiming that the White House wrote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent apology to Qatar over Israeli strikes in the country and that a senior Qatari envoy was present in the Oval Office to ensure Netanyahu followed the prepared script. Well, the prime minister’s office has dismissed the story as false, asserting that Netanyahu’s remarks were his own. Well, let’s get more on this story. France 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Noat Tanapolski joins us now. No, just bring us up to speed with what Politico is claiming here. Exactly. Politico is confirming based on three sources who uh were in this Oval Office encounter um something that has been suspected for a number of days. First of all, because of the forced nature of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s appearance before the media with President Trump and because of the also awkward announcement subsequent to that meeting that the prime minister had apologized to Qatar for the Israeli strike launched last month. This was not announced by Israel. Eventually, the Israeli prime minister’s office did say that he had expressed regrets. The entire event was very awkward. And then the White House released images of said apology which showed Prime Minister Netanyahu sitting in an armchair next to the president reading from what looked like a script. So ever since then, journalists have been trying to find out what actually went down in that White House meeting. Today, political reports that in fact, Prime Minister Netanyahu read a text that was dictated to him by two foreign nations, that it was created by the United States and by Qatar, and that uh I would say a strong man, a fixer very close to the Qatari prime minister who was hearing this apology from Benjamin Netanyahu, was sat in the room so as to supervise and make sure Netanyahu did not stray from the This is obviously an extremely severe uh accusation and the prime minister’s um denial today doesn’t seem entirely convincing. What he said is that in fact he wrote his own words in quote in consultation with his professional staff. What we know is that Netanyahu has extremely complex relations with Qatar. Netanyao is the Israeli prime minister who concocted a year’slong scheme through which Qatar transferred about a billion dollars to Hamas in Gaza. And this was so as to support Prime Minister Antonio’s efforts to prevent there being unity among different Palestinian factions and to strengthen Hamas as against the Palestinian Authority in Ramla. We also know shockingly that even after the kamas attack 2023 attack against Israel, his top staff have been found to have been on the Qatari payroll. Specifically, Yonathan Urik, one of Netanyo’s top aids, does not deny having received a very significant amount of money from Qatar to apparently handle Qatar’s PR while he was an employee of Prime Minister Netanyahu. During this war, when Netanyahu was forced to testify in this case, which obviously comes very close to a treason case, Netanyahu said that Qatar is not an enemy state. So even if his aid did it, it didn’t matter. But a few weeks later, when he ordered this attack against Hamas leadership in the Qatari capital of Doha, he did refer to Qatar as an enemy. Um and he he launched that strike against the advice of the army. So we don’t know everything there is to know. But today we apparently got a new piece of the puzzle that appears to show that Prime Minister Netanyahu is at the very least susceptible to American pressure and possibly Qatari pressure based on the unknown and complex nature of his ties with Qatar. No, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed. Nuggets reporting there live from Jerusalem.

As top US and Qatari officials joined a third day of talks aimed at brokering peace in Gaza, news outlet Politico has confirmed the White House wrote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent apology to Qatar over Israel’s strikes in the country and that a senior Qatari envoy was present in the Oval Office to ensure Netanyahu followed the prepared script. FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
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10 comments

  1. What Israel did was unacceptable as it impacted the United States global alliances. Can't be doing things that go against us and then expect our continued support

  6. if israel killed more innocent during 50 days in gaza than all they call terrorists to free palestine ever did in 50 years , the real terror is zionism

  8. Qatar should know the finger was already branshed to them………..the say money you give to America for security is donated ad weapons to isreal to be used against Qatar…….look for other security arrangements even if it China 🇨🇳

  10. This is unsurprising, I don’t think Netanyahu is mentally capable of comprehending the concept of ‘apology’. Him and every other Zionist too.

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