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Terror Watch: It’s Time to Rethink Our Relationship With Qatar

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( Newsweek ) As the horrific scenes of the terrorist Hamas attack on Israel played out on social media, with videos of mutilated corpses, gang rapes and abductions, Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh—safe and likely in his penthouse hideaway in Doha—celebrated and prayed over the successful massacre of over 1,200 people. The Qatari Foreign Ministry  said  it held Israel “solely responsible” for the bloodshed due in part to its “incursions into the Al Aqsa Mosque.” Qatar has a long history of supporting terror. Qatari funds and political support have reportedly made their way to groups like the  Janjaweed  who carried out the infamous genocide in Darfur, Sudan, to  various branches  of Al Qaeda, and to the  Taliban . According to a  2017 congressional hearing , a top Qatari official “provided support” to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Top U.S. officials have  said  that Qatar created a “permissive terrorist financing...
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Qatar: Extremism and Terrorism

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On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel killing at least 1,200 people and kidnapping at least 240 men, women, and children. In response, Israel declared war on Hamas and launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders watched the attack unfold from Haniyeh’s office in Doha, Qatar. Qatar joined with Saudi Arabia and Iran in blaming Israel for the October 7 Hamas attack. According to a Qatari government statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs held Israel “solely responsible for the ongoing escalation due to its ongoing violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli police.” That night, Qatari officials claimed they had begun mediation talks to convince Hamas to release captive women and children for Palestinian security prisoners in Israel. Israel denied negotiations were underway. On October 20, Hamas...
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