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The West Is Playing a Dangerous Double Game with Qatar

(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - The recent Israeli strike on Hamas political leaders in Qatar demonstrates Israel's determination to pursue Islamist terrorists to the bitter end, wherever they may be - similar to the hunt for the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes. No country in the world can lecture Israel or stop our fight against Islamist terrorism. We are following exactly the American and European policies following the attack of Sep. 11, 2001, in New York. Doha has become a sanctuary for Islamist terrorism. Why does the Free World, led by America, let this happen? The U.S. must demand that Qatar expel all Hamas members from its territory. Normalization within the framework of the Abraham Accords and the resolution of Gaza cannot be advanced as long as Hamas has a strong presence in Doha and sabotages any attempt at rapprochement between the Arab world and Israel. In 1996, the Emir of Qatar launched Al Jazeera, a television channel with a clear political agenda influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. It has been a key player in shaping public opinion against Arab regimes and, above all, in inciting hatred of Israel. It was responsible for the fall of Mubarak in Egypt, Ben Ali in Tunisia, and Gaddafi in Libya, and for the rise of fanatical Islamist movements, in collusion with Shiite Iran. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
2025-09-18 00:00:00
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