President Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring that the United States will respond to any attack on Qatar with retributional force toward the aggressor country, including potential use of the U.S. military.

The executive order was issued on Monday but not made public until Wednesday , as Trump was hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday. The Israeli government has been at odds with Qatar in the past; earlier this month, Israel launched an attack against the capital city of Doha , where Hamas political negotiators had traveled to discuss a potential ceasefire agreement regarding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The order comes just months after Trump accepted a 747 jetliner gift from Qatar, worth at least $400 million , in what critic

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