{"id":55068,"date":"2025-09-14T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55068"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:36:22","slug":"qatar-pm-says-country-enraged-at-israels-strike-it-ought-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/qatar-pm-says-country-enraged-at-israels-strike-it-ought-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar PM Says Country ‘Enraged’ at Israel’s Strike: It Ought to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an exclusive interview with CNN<\/a>, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Abdulrahman al-Thani the Prime Minister of Qatar, described his nation as \u201cenraged\u201d at last Tuesday\u2019s bombing by Israel in Doha, and added that there was now \u201cno hope\u201d for extricating the 20 or so remaining Israeli hostages from Hamas\u2019 underground haunts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that what Netanyahu has done yesterday, he just killed any hope for those hostages. I was meeting one of the hostages\u2019 families the morning of the attack. They are counting on this [ceasefire] mediation, they have no other hope for that,\u201d Sheikh Mohammed said. \u201cI have no words to express how enraged we are from such an action\u2026 this is state terror. We are betrayed\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cQatar\u2019s prime minister told the White House his country would now re-evaluate its security partnership with Washington,\u201d a source close to the PM told the US outlet\u00a0<\/a>Axios\u00a0<\/em>on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The dust had barely settled, and the names of the dead had barely reached international headlines, before 3 Israeli officials came out<\/a> and warned that future strikes could be authorized<\/a> if Qatar didn\u2019t turn over Hamas leadership, by which one can only assume they meant the ceasefire negotiating team, to Tel Aviv for a little summary Zionist justice.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0WaL\u00a0<\/em>produced an analysis<\/a> of the impacts that Israel and America\u2019s brief bombing campaign on Iran has done to the fabric of international security. In a similar way, the Doha strike carried potential paradigm-shifting implications for the Gulf.<\/p>\n

During President Trump\u2019s first term in office, he managed to sign the Gulf states and Morocco onto an international agreement called the Abraham Accords, which bartered Israeli normalization<\/a> in the eyes of these states for security guarantees and other bribes. It wasn\u2019t long after these accords were signed that Netanyahu began boasting that there was now nothing stopping him from burying the two-state solution forever, and that the Palestinians would have neither land nor hope for the rest of time.<\/p>\n

Analysts saw the Abraham Accords as the major influence<\/a> that must have galvanized Hamas to commit the October 7th attacks. By losing their only regional sympathizers<\/a>, no options remained but war.<\/p>\n

The go-between<\/strong><\/p>\n

But now Qatar has suspended mediation efforts and may end relations altogether. Would taken together with the 23-month long siege turned-genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Abraham Accords will likely never be revived.<\/p>\n

But Qatar was far more important to the US than just as a partner in the Abraham Accords. Qatar was willing and able to carry on several sensitive diplomatic efforts on behalf of both Tel Aviv and Washington with discretion and success. Trump relied on Qatar heavily as a mediator between his government and the Taliban<\/a> to end the occupation of Afghanistan successfully. Qatar maintained the US diplomatic attach\u00e9 to the subsequent Islamic government in Afghanistan. Qatar has also allowed the US to run several wars against other Islamic countries out of CENTCOM headquarters, located in the country.<\/p>\n

Qatar has for years been the Likud Party\u2019s mediators with Hamas. Netanyahu himself relied heavily on the Qataris to prop up Hamas<\/a> at times when the group was bankrupt or losing popularity. The strategy allowed Netanyahu to avoid negotiations with the more moderate Palestinian Authority, and thus avoid any talks about a two-state solution. Then, the Qataris mediated the first major release<\/a> of Israeli hostages of the genocide during the 2-month ceasefire to mark the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n

Trump would have almost certainly used the Qataris again to get the American-Israeli hostages released in advance of his entry into the Oval Office in late 2024. The Qataris were busy attempting to secure the release of the rest of the hostages when Israel bombed Doha.<\/p>\n

For Israel to attack Qatar is indeed a betrayal, not only to Qatar but also to the US who have relied on the Qatari\u2019s diplomacy as much if not more than Israel. From the Qatari point of view, it\u2019s probably easier to see which betrayal stings more. Security guarantees under the Abraham Accords could not stop the US-armed-and-protected Israeli military from brazenly entering Qatar\u2019s airspace with US-made F-35I fighter jets and bombing a civilian area, killing a member of the Qatari military police in the process of attempting to kill Hamas leaders that Qatar was hosting on Israel\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s response has been described as weak and unsubstantial \u2013 even contradictory. At least publicly, the President has said nothing that would make Doha believe the US will reign in Israeli aggression in the region at all. They may just be the latest example of a trend in the region going back decades that America\u2019s allies and partners in the region are useful until the very moment when they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Andrew Corbley is founder and editor of <\/i>World at Large<\/a>, an independent news outlet. He is a loyal listener of Antiwar radio and of the Scott Horton Show. Reprinted with permission from <\/i>World at Large<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Abdulrahman al-Thani the Prime Minister of Qatar, described his nation as \u201cenraged\u201d at last Tuesday\u2019s bombing by Israel in Doha, and added that there was now \u201cno hope\u201d for extricating the 20 or so remaining Israeli hostages from Hamas\u2019 underground haunts. \u201cI think that what Netanyahu has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[842],"class_list":["post-55068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55073,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55068\/revisions\/55073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}