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By September 12, the question wasn’t whether Trump could declare victory; it was whether his team could stop a regional crisis from turning his own peace pitch into a punchline. When the ally everyone wants to keep happy starts freelancing airstrikes in a mediator’s capital, the self-proclaimed dealmaker looks a lot more like the guy reading a broken teleprompter after the room has already left.
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Israel’s strike in Doha kept detonating Trump’s Gaza diplomacy on September 12, leaving the White House to juggle anger in Qatar, Israeli defiance, and a ceasefire plan that suddenly looked far less like a breakthrough than a hostage to events. The immediate consequence was a diplomatic scramble that undercut Trump’s claim to be the indispensable broker in the region.