Even if Trump somehow gets out of office, Vance is just as terrible:
Vance says Trump doesn’t think Israel’s Qatar strike serves US or Israeli interests
In his interview with OANN, Vance also suggested “a silver lining” to Israel’s attack, telling Gaetz,” it looks like it probably eliminated a couple of very bad guys from Hamas… even though we disagree with the underlying decision.”
Silver lining being killing the child of the negotiator and some bodyguards.
Khalil al-Hayya survived, but his son and aide were killed: Hamas officia
Al-Hindi said the attempt to kill Khalil al-Hayya and other Hamas leaders who were meeting to discuss Trump’s ceasefire proposal has failed. But the attack killed al-Hayya’s son, Humam, and one of his top aides. Contact has also been lost with three other bodyguards, al-Hindi said.
Suhail al-Hindi, the Hamas official, says the attack in Doha targeted Hamas and Qatar primarily, but it is an aggression on all Arabs, Muslims and free people across the world. “The free world must reject this heinous crime – the attempt to kill those discussing ending the war on Gaza,” he told Al Jazeera.
Qatari security officer killed in Israeli strikes: Interior Ministry
Qatar’s Interior Ministry says a member of the country’s security forces was killed and others were wounded in Israeli’s attack on Doha. “Specialised crews are continuing to inspect and secure the targeted area with the explosives division of the internal security forces,” the ministry said.
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Word out of Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu portrayed the attack as a peacemaking action. In remarks at the US Embassy, he said that Israel has “accepted” the US’ latest proposed principles for a ceasefire.
And then there's Fetterman
Democratic lawmaker John Fetterman shares a social media post appearing to revel in the Israeli attack on Qatar – a formal partner of the US as a major non-NATO ally and host to the largest US military base in the Middle East.
US government is disgusting.
In an extraordinary development, the Qatari government has put out a statement calling the claim made by the White House untrue. This was after the White House said that Donald Trump had instructed Steve Witkoff to alert Doha about the Israeli attack in advance. Qatar said no one informed them about the attack in advance. Being called out for a lie by Qatar wasn’t the only setback faced by Trump. There were more bad news for him and Benjamin Netanyahu. It has emerged that the Hamas leadership has survived the attack and Qatar has decided to walk out of its mediator’s role in the ceasefire talks. Rifat Jawaid says this is a tragic day for both people of Gaza and the families of the hostages.
‘Trump administration not coherent, rational in its foreign policy’
Former US intelligence officer Glenn Carle says that reflecting on why the US failed to stop Israel’s attack on Qatar relies on the assumption that the Trump’s administration is being rational.
“All of us who observe international relations, intelligence and US foreign policy tend to seek coherence coming out of Trump’s White House, but what we really should know is that it is capricious,” Carle told Al Jazeera.
“It’s a series of decisions that President Trump believes help him in a given moment that doesn’t last more than the next news headline. It’s not at all inconsistent to find inconsistency and irrationality in [his policies],” the analyst continued.
Carle added that while the attack in Qatar doesn’t help peace, Trump let it go forward “because he doesn’t have a grand strategy.” What drives the US president’s decisions is that “he wants to look good and get praised, and that leads to a series of rudderless decisions.”