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March 7, 2025 Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1818

The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 9, March 7, 2025

March 7, 2025 | By Yigal Carmon*
Qatar | Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1818

  1. MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11862, Senior Qatari Journalist Ahmad Ali On U.S. President Trump's Plan For Gaza: In The Upcoming Month Of Ramadan, Which Is The Month Of Islamic Victories, The Arab Nation Must Unite Against The 'American Imperialism', March 3, 2025.

  2. MEMRI Daily Brief No. 735, Qatar For Beginners: The Evil Regime Behind Al-Jazeera, by John Mirisch, March 5, 2025.

  3. As Israel, U.S. align on new hostage proposal, Qatar urges sticking to existing framework: Interview with Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed Al-Ansari – Times of Israel, March 3, 2025. See also MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11170, Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed Al-Ansari In 2021 Article: Praise For Firing Of Thousands Of Rockets Into Israel; Gaza Is 'The First Palestinian Territory Liberated From The Occupier'; Israel Is 'The Entity,' 'The Zionist Enemy,’ March 5, 2025.

  4. In a closed-door speech to the Jewish Agency Board of Trustees, Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said that he is optimistic regarding the possibility of arriving at a future settlement with the Palestinians. "If Hamas is defeated, there is a good chance that we will meet on the White House lawn to sign a peace agreement," he said. He added in the speech that he had always had reservations about Qatar, and that he had not changed his mind about that, and revealed that when the Qatari funds had begun to flow into the Gaza strip, they had wanted him, as Israel's then-ambassador to the U.S., to tweet support for the move. "This was part of the deal," he said, noting that he had feared that this would anger the UAE and Saudi Arabia – Ynet, March 3, 2025. See also MEMRI Daily Brief No. 727,  Rising Israeli Voices Against Qatar And Its Sponsorship Of Islamist Terrorism – Four Challenges For The Trump Administration, by Yigal Carmon, February 26, 2025.

  5. Harvard Received $151 Million From Foreign Governments Since January 2020 – Harvard Crimson, February 28, 202 See also Rabbi David Wolpe on X: "When I asked the former President of Harvard about this, she insisted Harvard only takes money from families. I explained that the ruling family of, say, Qatar, isn't a family. It is an hereditary monarchy," March 2, 2025, and MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 1801, Mrs. Muslim Brotherhood Wears Prada: The Comprehensive Islamist Activity Of Sheikha Moza, Mother Of The Qatari Emir, And Her Support For Islamic Terrorism, Antisemitism, The Muslim Brotherhood And Hamas, by N. Mozes, January 16, 202

  6. 'I was really shocked': Body placed next to passenger on Qatar Airways flight – CNN, February 26, 2025.

* Yigal Carmon is Founder and President of MEMRI.

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