Image released by the White House showing Netanyahu calling the Qatari government to apologize.
01/10/2025
2 min

It's an extraordinary, extraordinary photograph! Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met at the White House and "negotiated" on the future—if there were one—of Gaza. The meeting between the two landowners produced the 20-point plan we've been talking about these days to end the genocide (and, whatever the case, the calculated extermination of people) in the Gaza Strip. At this meeting, however, Trump forced (we can say whatever we want, too) Netanyahu "to call the government of Qatar to apologize for the attack on Doha in early September, in which Israel killed five Hamas members."

In this photograph, which seems as though it couldn't possibly be taken seriously, both leaders are sitting in armchairs in front of the Oval Office fireplace. It's the moment of the call. Trump has that face like a walled-off child that seems like a joke, so immature, and he's holding the telephone receiver, which is a landline, in one hand and the cord that plugs into the outlet in the other. Netanyahu is reading a piece of paper in his hand, where they've probably written down what he should say. He's put the receiver to his ear with the other hand. With his gaze lowered, he's reading a somewhat crumpled piece of paper. While he speaks, obediently, Trump, the older brother (the attitude isn't that of a father), is in control. He's forced him, he's told him: "Do it right now!"

If he weren't holding the device in his lap, anyway, if he were just watching, supervising, the image wouldn't be so shocking, for either of them. The photo shows the "before." Trump grabs the device from the table, in a flurry, the one that connects to a secretary and the intelligence services. Trump shouts: "Get on with Qatar!" And once the secretary obeys, he hands the receiver to the other and says: "And now you will read this or you will feel me!"

The photography is extraordinary, extraordinary!

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