The Way Trump Secured a Gaza Strip Major Step Which Escaped Joe Biden

Initially, the Israeli aerial attack on the Hamas militant delegation in Qatar appeared like yet another escalation that pushed the prospect of a ceasefire further away.

The attack on September 9 violated the sovereignty of an American ally and risked widening the hostilities into a broader regional conflict.

Diplomacy appeared to be collapsing.

Instead, it turned out to be a pivotal event that has led in a agreement, announced by Donald Trump, to free all captives still held.

This is a objective that Trump, and President Joe Biden before him, had pursued for almost 24 months.

It is just the first step towards a lasting resolution, and the details of Hamas disarmament, administering Gaza and full Israeli withdrawal remain to be worked out.

But if this agreement stands, it could be Trump's signature achievement of his second term - one that eluded Biden and his administration.

The president's distinct approach and key alliances with the Israeli government and the Arab world seem to have played a role in this success.

However, as with many foreign policy wins, there were also elements involved beyond the influence of both leaders.

Strong Ties Which Eluded Biden

In public, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are consistently friendly.

Trump often states that Israel has no better friend, and Netanyahu has called him as Israel's "most supportive friend in the US presidency". Moreover these positive statements have been matched by actions.

During his first presidential term, Trump relocated the American diplomatic mission in Israel from its former location to Jerusalem and discarded a traditional American stance that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are against international law, the position under international law.

After Israel began its bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic in the summer, Trump directed US bombers to target the Iran's atomic sites with its largest non-nuclear weapons.

These visible shows of backing may have given the president the leeway to exert more influence on the Israeli government in private. As per sources, Trump's negotiator, Steve Witkoff, pressured Netanyahu in the latter part of the year into accepting a temporary ceasefire in exchange for the freeing of a number of captives.

When Israel launched strikes against Syria's military in the summer, including bombing a place of worship, the US president urged Netanyahu to change course.

The leader displayed a level of will and pressure on an Israeli prime minister that is rarely seen, according to an analyst of the a think tank. "There is no example of an US leader literally telling an Israeli prime minister that they must agree or else."

Biden's relationship with Netanyahu's government was consistently more strained.

The Biden team's "close embrace approach" argued that the United States had to embrace the nation publicly in order to allow it to influence the nation's war conduct behind closed doors.

Underneath this was the president's decades-long of support for the state, as well as sharp divisions within his Democratic coalition over the conflict in Gaza. Each move the leader took risked fracturing his own political backing, whereas Trump's solid Republican base provided him more flexibility to manoeuvre.

Ultimately, internal considerations or individual ties may have had little impact than the simple fact that, throughout his term, Israel was not ready to make peace.

Several months into his new administration, with Iran chastened, the militant group to its immediate north greatly diminished and Gaza devastated, every one of its key military goals had been achieved.

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The Israeli missile attack in the Qatari capital, which resulted in the death of a Qatari citizen but no Hamas officials, led Trump to deliver an final demand to the prime minister. The war had to end.

Trump had allowed Israel a relatively free hand in the territory. The president provided US armed support to Israel's campaign in the neighboring country. However an strike on Qatari territory was a different matter completely, pushing him closer to the stance of Arab nations on how best to end the war.

Several administration figures have informed the press that this was a turning point which motivated the leader to exert full force to get a peace deal done.

This US president's strong connections with the Arab monarchies are well documented. He has commercial interests with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He began each of his administrations with official trips to the kingdom. Recently, Trump also visited in Qatar and the UAE capital.

His normalization agreements, which normalised relations between the Jewish state and several Muslim states, including the UAE, was the biggest diplomatic achievement of his first term.

His visits devoted in the capitals of the Arabian Peninsula earlier this year helped change his thinking, says Ed Husain of the Council on Foreign Relations. The US president did not visit Israel on this Middle East trip but visited the UAE, the kingdom and the state where he received consistent appeals to bring an end to the war.

Less than a month after that attack on the city, Trump sat nearby as the prime minister himself called Qatar to apologise. And later that day, the prime minister gave approval on the president's 20-point peace plan for the territory - one that also had the backing of key Muslim nations in the region.

Assuming the president's alliance with Netanyahu provided him the ability to influence the government to reach an agreement, his past with Arab rulers may have secured their backing, and helped them persuade the group to commit to the deal.

"One of the things that clearly happened was that President Trump developed influence with the Israeli government, and indirectly with Hamas," says an analyst of the a research center.

"This was crucial. The capacity to achieve this on his timing, and not succumb to the desires of the warring sides has been a challenge that lot of earlier administrations have struggled with, and he seems to do with some success."

The reality that the president is far better liked in the nation than Netanyahu himself was leverage that he employed to his advantage, the expert continues.

Now Israel has committed to freeing over a thousand Palestinians imprisoned in its jails and has agreed to a partial withdrawal from the strip.

The group will free all the captives still held, living and dead, captured during the original 7 October assault, which caused the death of over 1,200 Israelis.

An end to the war, which has led to the destruction of Gaza and the fatalities of more than 67,000 {Palestinians|Pal