Trump meets Qatar Emir on Air Force 1 during stopover; gets Gaza troop assurance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : At the meeting with the Qatar's Emir and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, Trump thanked them for their mediation that resulted in the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
49% : But he added that a United Nations Security Council or some other international mandate would be needed "because their domestic laws require it".
44% : With the first phases peace deal -- release of hostages by Hamas and prisoners by Israel and the return of the bodies of hostages -- nearly complete and a tenuous ceasefire is holding in Gaza except for one flare up, the difficult task of the terrorist organisation laying down arms, or being made to, comes up next.
43% : Along with Turkey, Qatar acted as the mediator in the negotiations between Hamas and Israel to end the two-year conflict in Gaza, that culminated this month with the two sides agreeing to a 20-point peace deal proposed by Trump.
19% : Israel struck a building in Qatar where the Hamas negotiators were staying, nearly aborting the negotiations, and infuriating Trump.
19% : Trump forced Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while visiting the White House to apologise to the Emir in a public phone call.

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