The Arab states' meeting in Cairo set for February 27, that was to come up with a unified opposition to President Trump's Gaza plan, has been postponed. They fear him, and he may well tell them: "We are not the Biden administration. If you oppose us, don't expect foreign and military aid." In any event, the Arab states never cared enough for the Palestinians to risk their relationship with their ally, the U.S., who supports some of them with foreign aid and protects them from Iran. All the Arab ...
1. MEMRI Special Dispatch: Reactions In Qatar To Trump's Vision For Gaza: It Is A 'Cursed' Plan And 'A Heinous Crime , February 6, 2025. Cartoon in Qatari daily: Trump and Netanyahu hold Auschwitz-style gate stating "Trump's plan for Gaza" 2. Congressional Briefing Renews Concerns Over Security Holes In Visa Waiver Program : "Criticisms of allowing Qatar into the VWP primarily center around concerns about potential security risks due to the nation’s complex geopolitical situation, including its ...
Introduction Qatar is a big winner in the Syrian revolution, having supported the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and its leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani (formerly ISIS and Al-Qaeda and now Muslim Brotherhood) who has a $10 million bounty on his head. 1 This is Qatar's classic game: support the Islamist terrorists and then present itself as a mediator, liaison, and even peacemaker – the arsonist playing firefighter. As in Afghanistan, as in Egypt in 2010, and ...
Dear Mr. President, As you are faced with the Middle East crisis in the first days of your second term in office, I would like to present to you two videos of your own speeches from your previous term. I do this humbly as former counterterror advisor to two Israeli prime ministers. One speech of yours, in June 2017, focused on Qatar and its support for terrorist organizations – support that you emphasized in your speech must stop. Qatar did not stop, instead doubling down on its policy of ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
... No. 11793 – Qatari Government Media On Gaza Ceasefire: A 'Crushing Historic Victory' For Hamas And A 'Significant Defeat' For Israel; The ... Wing Abu Hamza: We Thank And Salute Qatar And Egypt For Mediating Ceasefire Agreement, As Well As Al-Jazeera ... Network And All The Other Media Outlets That Have Supported Gaza , Al-Araby TV (Qatar ... Not For U.S. Commandos Deployed In Israel On October 8, 2023, Hamas Would Have Made Even Greater Achievements; ...
On the backdrop of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, Abu Hamza, the spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said in a January 21, 2025 show on Al-Araby TV (Qatar) that his group extends gratitude and salutations to the "brothers" in Qatar and Egypt for their mediation in the ceasefire negotiations. He also expressed gratitude to the "free" media outlets that have supported Gaza throughout Israel's "aggression," and he ...
Following the signing of the ceasefire agreement with Israel on January 17, 2025, many Hamas officials came out with boastful declarations of victory. Speaking mainly in the Qatari media, they bragged about the October 7 attack, and promised that the present war was just one station in the struggle against Israel and that Hamas would continue the jihad against it. The agreement, they said, is a result of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, which understands that the war victims are the ...
The following are highlights of MEMRI's research and translations about Qatar this past year. Qatari Government Dailies Continue To Praise Hamas' October 7 Attack On Israel: It Was A Historic, Heroic Act That Saved The Muslim Nation On the first anniversary of Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack, in which about 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 240 were taken hostage, the Qatari government press published a number of articles glorifying the attack, which Hamas calls the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The ...