Donald Trump Meets Qatar Prime Minister After Israeli Strikes.

Donald Trump is expected to meet Qatar’s prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Friday evening in New York, just days after US ally Israel carried out an unprecedented air strike on the Qatari capital Doha.

The bombing is the first such attack by Israel on Qatar, which has hosted multiple rounds of ceasefire talks, and it has been internationally condemned, leaving US diplomacy in the Middle East on a knife-edge.

Since the strikes, Mr Trump has praised Qatar as a “strong ally and friend” and has reportedly held a “heated phone call” with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.According to the Washington Post, in the call, Mr Trump said the air attack on Doha was “not wise”, to which Netanyahu responded that he had a brief window to launch the airstrike, and took the opportunity.The call came after Mr Trump described the attack as “unfortunate”, and was “very unhappy about the way it went down”, adding that it “does not advance Israel or America’s goals”.