WASHINGTON — President Trump confirmed he plans to visit the war-torn Gaza Strip in an interview published Thursday while crediting himself as the indispensable factor in brokering the peace deal between Israel and Hamas earlier this month.

“The most important thing,” Trump told Time magazine about this month’s diplomatic breakthrough, “is they have to respect the president of the United States. The Middle East has to understand that.

“And they do. If you go to Qatar, if you go to Saudi Arabia, if you go to UAE, who are the three big ones, in that sense, they all respect the president, and if they’re not going to respect the president—it’s almost the president more so than the country. You understand that? If they don’t respect the president, and if the president doesn’t know what he

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