DOHA, Qatar — A top adviser to the highest levels of the Qatari government told Breitbart News on Sunday evening here at the Doha Forum it was a Breitbart News interview with the Prime Minister of Qatar at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) back in September that helped President Donald Trump land the deal that produced the ceasefire in Gaza that brought home the remaining living Israeli hostages from Hamas.
“It was your interview that got the greatest headline on that issue,” Dr. Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari, a top adviser to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani, said in response to a question from Breitbart News at a roundtable with journalists from across the international media here at the closing of the conference. “If it wasn’t for President Trump, we wouldn’t have gotten the ceasefire we have right now.”
In particular, al-Ansari is referring to an interview that Breitbart News did with Al Thani, the Qatari Prime Minister, at the UNGA in New York City back in September. The headline of that interview was: Exclusive — Qatari Prime Minister: Donald Trump Is ‘Only One’ in the World Who Can Achieve Peace in Gaza.
Trump clearly read the story, as he later shared it on Truth Social. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also shared the article on social media and several other White House officials pushed it as well.
At the time of that interview, the Gaza deal had not yet been finalized. Qatar and Israel were both still dealing with the fallout from Israel’s decision to bomb Doha to attack Hamas officials who were based here—at the request originally of the U.S. and Israeli governments—for the mediation talks. Israel faced significant blowback throughout the Arab world from that decision to bomb Doha, and Trump even forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to phone Al Thani to apologize for the decision. Trump has repeatedly made clear the U.S. did not know that Israel was doing that, and that the U.S. did not approve of Israel’s decision. This topic still dominates discussion in Qatar, and was a major part of the Qatari prime minister’s interview this weekend at the Doha Forum with Tucker Carlson.
In that clearly consequential interview, Al Thani told Breitbart News that the entire world was looking to Trump as the only person who could rein in Netanyahu and end the
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