You may suppose, primarily based on the nice and cozy relationship between Washington and Qatar, that the rich Gulf nation, awash in pure fuel, is an outpost of democracy.
In spite of everything, Qatar hosts the most important U.S. army base within the Center East. It is going to even be house to a brand new Trump Worldwide Golf Course and has given the White Home a $400 million 747 jetliner.
Nonetheless, Qatar is an emirate, mainly a kingdom, and in response to critics, no defender of Western values.
“Qatar is the other of all that,” warns Yigal Carmon, the pinnacle of the Center East Media Analysis Institute or MEMRI, which displays what Qatar’s leaders say in Arabic. “Qatar is an Islamist ideological emirate that seeks in each single step of its actions to advertise jihad.”
Carmon calls Qatar a hub of Muslim extremism and a serious supply of worldwide terrorism.
“They do it with what you’ll name ‘tender energy,’ utilizing their immense wealth, but in addition by ‘exhausting energy,’ by supporting each jihadist motion on the face of the planet, not simply within the Arab and Muslim world,” he defined.
Qatar’s Many Ties to Islamic Terrorism
The laundry checklist is a protracted one. The mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, was a Qatari authorities worker. Qatar has lengthy sponsored the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks a worldwide Islamic authorities. Qatar funds and hosts Hamas and has backed Palestinian terrorism. It has robust ties to Iran and the Taliban. It broadcasts antisemitism and lies about Israel, in addition to anti-American propaganda, by means of its international TV channel, Al Jazeera. There are additionally experiences Qatar funds terrorists in Africa who kill Christians.
On October seventh, Qatar blamed Israel for the Hamas bloodbath, and when Israel killed the mastermind behind the assault, Yahya Sinwar, the mom of Qatar’s emir, in a now deleted put up on X, wrote that Sinwar “will dwell on” and Israel “will likely be gone.”
Yigal Carmon held up a big photograph, saying, “That is the Emir of Qatar and the previous commander of Hamas. Take a look at the grins of affection on the faces. The erasing, the elimination of Israel, is the core perception.”
Qatari Affect within the White Home
An Islamic nation that hates Israel and helps terrorism won’t sound shocking, however Qatari affect runs deep in Washington and throughout the Trump Administration. White Home Chief of Workers Susie Wiles, previously of the lobbying agency Ballard Companions, Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, Center East envoy Steve Witkoff, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have both lobbied for Qatar, labored for corporations that did, or had enterprise relationships with the emirate.
Final month, former Training Secretary Invoice Bennett additionally registered as a lobbyist for Qatar. His acknowledged position will likely be to say that the $6 billion Qatar has given to U.S. greater training is just not for the aim of spreading Islamic radicalism.
Qatar has spent virtually $100 billion to curry favor with the White Home, Congress, academia, suppose tanks, and firms. It additionally purchased affect through the Biden Administration.
PHOTO: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani welcomes President Trump on the Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar, Could 14, 2025. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
What Qatar Desires
There are many nations attempting to cozy as much as Washington, and so they’re utilizing cash to do it. The query is, what does Qatar need in return?
Natalie Ecanow, a senior analysis analyst on the Basis for Protection of Democracies, says Qatar needs to be each arsonist and firefighter.
Ecanow says, “What meaning is that Qatar sponsors a bunch of terrorist and extremist teams. Suppose Hamas, suppose the Taliban. So that is the arsonist half. The firefighter half is Qatar coming in and positioning itself as an indispensable, peace dealer, stability dealer in all corners of the world.”
Ecanow says what Qatar appears to need with its cash is U.S. safety and a privileged place in coverage choices.
“When Qatar engages in additional adversarial behaviors, as an example sponsoring Hamas, internet hosting the Taliban, partaking in corruption. Western policymakers aren’t essentially going to carry Qatar accountable to that as a result of they’ve this shut relationship, as a result of they’ve, they’re predisposed to see Qatar in a good gentle,” Ecanow stated.
Is Qatar Reforming?
Qatar did signal a declaration final month condemning Hamas and calling on it to relinquish management of Gaza. Is that this an indication of change? Qatar’s embassy in Washington didn’t reply to our request for solutions. Carmon, the counterterrorism advisor to 2 Israeli prime ministers, stated America is being fooled.
When requested in regards to the 747 being given to the U.S. by Qatar, President Trump instructed he’d be silly to show down “a free, very costly airplane.”
But when nothing is “free” in geopolitics, the worth of the aircraft, and all of the billions being dumped on Washington, is extra Qatari affect, because the tiny emirate, which sees itself because the true seat of radical Islam, hopes to leverage its shut relationship with america.
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