Washington: Israel has pushed its luck on multiple occasions as it conducts its campaign to exterminate Hamas. This time, it may have gone too far.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a brazen attack inside the sovereign territory of a key US ally, Qatar – the country that, with broad agreement from all concerned, has hosted Hamas’ political leadership since 2012 and provided a space for peace talks to take place.

US President Donald Trump issued a rare rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Doha strike. Credit: Illustration: Marija Ercegovac

Such negotiations are critical right now, with 48 hostages still held by Hamas from its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel – some alive, some dead – and Israel seemingly set on a ground invasion of Gaza City.

But Netan

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