How Trump's Gaza ceasefire imploded

Less than two weeks ago, Tucker Carlson, the conservative podcaster with a strong read on US President Donald Trump, sat down for an interview with Qatar’s prime minister, where the two raved about Trump’s iron-fisted ability to broker a Gaza ceasefire.

“Trump gets elected in November, inaugurated in January and immediately there is a ceasefire,” Carlson said.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, responded in kind: “What’s really making me feel sad [is] the agreement that we have achieved on the 15th of January of this year is almost 95 percent the one…agreed in December and March.”

“With the previous [Biden] administration we were working very closely…but at the end of the day…President Trump of course… they know if there is no deal happening before the inauguration it might have a consequence,” Thani said.

On Tuesday, Israel made clear there was no consequence to ripping up a deal on which the US, Egypt, and Qatar staked their reputations.

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