Banqueting with the enemy

“When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are a person of great appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food” (Proverbs 23:1-3)

 

“Do not eat the bread of a selfish person, or desire his delicacies. For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, ‘Eat and drink!’ But his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your compliments” (Proverbs 23:6-8)

 

In the days of King Solomon, as Jewish pilgrims ascended the winding road to Jerusalem, they chanted the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). They reminded themselves of how Israel’s enemies were continually attempting to destroy her, but that the God of Jacob, in His covenant love, foiled evil plans and preserved His Hebrew people.

Those same cruel dynamics from nearly 3,000 years ago have gone through little change, and are thriving and metastasizing, even in our day. Arabs living in Kedar (modern Arabian peninsula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qedarite; see also Genesis 25:13) were an outstanding biblical example of this murderous anti-Jewish hatred:

• “Woe to me, for I reside in Meshech! For I have settled among the tents of Kedar! Too long has my soul had its dwelling with those who hate peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war” (Psalm 120:5-7).

 

These biblical words accurately reflect much of the Jewish people’s painful exile among the nations of the Middle East. Hatred of the seed of Jacob and hatred of making peace with Israel still characterize much of the Islamic and Arabic-speaking world.

 

The morphing of Qatar

The current repeated attacks against the regathered nation of Israel in our day focus our attention on this biblical teaching. Whether it be the terror state of Qatar, the jihadis of Gazan Hamas, the al Qa’eda spinoffs in Syria or the Shi’ite gangs of Houthi-controlled Yemen, the hatred of Israel, its leaders and its people (whether in Zion or scattered across the world) is now leading the headlines in world media coverage.

For the past while, the terror state of Qatar has occupied a ‘position of honor’ of being at the top of the jihadi anti-Israel list. This newsletter will unpack the ‘roots and shoots’ of the jihadi state of Qatar, its significant role in the bankrolling and spreading of jihadi terrorism, and its seductive role in compromising Western nations (especially the USA) as the House of Al-Thani seeks to destroy the seed of Jacob from off the face of the earth.

 

From pearl fishing and dates to natural gas super-power

Qatar’s ancient economy revolved around date harvesting, local commercial fishing and pearling in the nearby gulf. This state of affairs continued for millennia until significant oil reserves were discovered in 1939, and petroleum began to be exported from Qatar in 1949.

As recently as the 1980s, diplomats and businessmen described Qatar’s capital city Doha as a barren place with stifling heat: “From a distance, the only discernible building on Doha’s waterfront promenade was the pyramid-shaped Sheraton hotel.”

By 1997, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips began to exploit one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world – estimated at 843 trillion cubic feet (1/10% of the world’s supply). Only Russia (1,688) and Iran (1,200) have greater reserves. Qatar’s IMF per-capita gross domestic product is now $121,605 (fifth highest in the world), compared with the U.S. $89,105 (tenth highest). Today Qatar has a population of 3.1 million, of which 11.6% (0.36 million) are citizens and 88.4% (2.76 million) are expat workers.

The Qatari Royal Family of al-Thani sought out foreign patronage in Washington, and the CIA willingly arranged a coup on February 22, 1971 to cement that profitable financial relationship (as mirrored in the Hollywoodized film ‘Syriana‘ starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Christopher Plummer).

Qatar is a state with a population the size of Plano, Texas, yet it has managed to punch far above its weight on the international scene (David B Roberts, ‘Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State’ (London: Hurst & Co., 2017), 123-49). It has become the main bankroller and exporter of world terrorism. How did that all happen?

 

When Brothers gather together

Jihadi Islam lies at the roots of Mohammad’s teachings in the Quran and the Hadith. For the first 300-500 years of its existence, Islam’s governing caliphate was activist, imperialistic and colonialist as it spread its dark gospel by the sword. But after an ebb in these conquests, it was the Ottoman Turks in the 1400’s who would renew the carrying of jihad’s violent torch into Europe, as well as back into into the Middle East once again. In the first part of the 20^th century, that Turkish Caliphate collapsed, and new firebrands like Hassan al-Bana (the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood/al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn in 1928), Sayyid Qutb and Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj advocated a revolutionary Islamic overthrow of what had become practically secular Islamic regimes, blending Salafist theology with medieval jihadi zealotry from the likes of ibn Taymiyya.

Three events in the second half of the 20th century imported this neo-jihadi movement into Qatar:

 

• The first event: In the mid-1950’s, refugees of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan) arrived in Qatar, escaping President Gamal Abd al-Nasser’s persecutions. Many of these then worked in the education sector, influencing a new generation of Qataris. The Qatari al-Thani Royal Family hoped in this way to stem the tide of Arab nationalism/socialism.

 

• Secondly, in the 1970’s Qataris studying in Egyptian universities (including former MB Supreme Guide Jassim Sultan) brought MB ideology back to Qatar.

 

• Thirdly, Syrian MB members arrived in Qatar at the start of the 1980’s, fleeing President Hafez al-Assad regime’s violent crackdown.

 

In 1961 the Qatari royal family welcomed Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Qatar. Qaradawi (1926-2022), one of the top religious personalities in the Sunni Muslim world, was considered the spiritual and religious leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Hamas, its Gazan Palestinian branch. He has been described by many researchers as the most influential Muslim jurist of the late 20^th century. His program on Al-Jazeera TV (al-Sharia wa-l-Ḥayyat – Islamic Law and Life), drew 60 million viewers from around the world on a weekly basis. In the United Kingdom, Qaradawi was a trustee of The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the President of the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research. Until November 2018 he was also the President of IUMS (the International Union of Islamic Scholars).

In 2005, a former Kuwaiti Minister of Information, Dr. Ahmad al-Rabi’, wrote in the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper: “The beginnings of all the religious terrorism that we are witnessing today were in the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology . . . All those who worked with bin Laden and al-Qaeda went out under the mandate of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

 

Qatar – a gracious host to genocidal jihad

Qaradawi’s fatwas (Islamic religious rulings) legalized Hamas suicide bombings against Jews. In 2004, he gave an interview to the BBC justifying Palestinian terror and the killings of Israeli women and children. Qaradawi was a strong supporter of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. He met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a 2013 visit to the Gaza Strip, re-iterating his support both for Hamas and for the elimination of Israel. During a sermon about the Jewish people that aired on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009, he called on Allah  to “kill them, down to the very last one.”

On January 28, 2009, Qaradawi justified the Holocaust as “divine punishment.” “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue—he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the [Muslim] believers.”

In 1999, he was banned from entering the USA, having called for the destruction of America and for the annihilation of the Jews. His home base for decades was situated in Doha, Qatar – only minutes away from the USA’s huge al-Udeid Air Base, where CENTCOM still has its Combined Air Operations Center.

In 2009, Qaradawi was banned from entering the UK due to his support of suicide bombing in Israel. Between the years 2013-2018, he was placed on the Interpol watch list at the request of Egyptian police, which asked to include him and several senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, alleging his co-responsibility for murder and embezzlement.

The Muslim Brotherhood – according to a hearing at the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security on July 11, 2018 – is a militant Islamist organization with affiliates in over 70 countries, including groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US. Though Hamas, the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch, has remained on the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) watchlist since 1997, its mother organization the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn) has not yet been so listed by the US Congress.

 

Qatar – THE bankroller and supporter of jihad

Bassam Tawil, a Muslim Arab commentator based in the Middle East, shoots straight from the hip, quoting Dr. Udi Levy, a former senior official of Israel’s Mossad spy agency who worked in the department of economic warfare against terrorist organizations:

 

• “Qatar is the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world, more than Iran. Qatar has been playing a dual role since the beginning of the Gaza war. On the one hand, it is a well-known supporter of Hamas, and even finances it with a lot of money, and on the other hand, it is trying to help in the deal for the release of the Israeli hostages. So what is the real face of the Qataris?”

 

Former Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir addressed the Council of Foreign Relations on September 26, 2018, speaking very much to the point regarding Qatar’s role in financing and sheltering terrorist organizations, in disseminating hatred, and in destabilizing Islamic regimes in the Gulf states and North Africa. Below is an edited transcript of his 3:58 minute address, found at this link:

 

• “Since the mid-90s [Qatar has] been sponsoring radicals. … They have become a base for the leadership for the Muslim Brotherhood [which is] what [birthed] Takfir al-Hijra, which [birthed] al-Qaeda, which [birthed] al-Nusra. The Qataris allow senior religious clerics to go on television and justify suicide bombings. The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists. The Qataris fund [anti-government] dissidents in the Emirates, in Bahrain, in Saudi Arabia and in Kuwait in order to create instability. The Qataris pay [huge amounts] to terrorist groups including $500 million to Hezbollah Iraq, $50 million to Qassem Solemeini, including I don’t know how much to Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
• “The Qataris use [al-Jazeera as] their media platforms to spread hate. The Qataris send weapons to Al Qaeda-affiliated militias in Libya. The Qatari Emir connived with [Libya’s General Qaddafi on how to overthrow Saudi Arabia and how to assassinate the then Crown Prince (later, the king) of Saudi Arabia. We have [tapped] phone conversations where the then Amir of Qatar is telling Gaddafi how he’s recruiting princes, Qataris, tribal leaders, military officers and members of the Royal Family to destabilize Saudi Arabia, and predicting that within 10 years there would be no royal family in Saudi Arabia.”
• “They did the same thing in Bahrain, in Kuwait and in the Emirates. So in 2012 we cut off relations with them and a year later they came back and agreed that they will end all of this nonsense. And they signed an agreement – and nothing happened. So this time (2017-2021) we said: ‘You know what? We’re not going to deal with you unless you change. We will not allow you.’ There’s a list of terror financiers that the US puts out, the UN puts out, and a number of them are living openly in Qatar raising money and giving it to bad people. But we have to deal with the dark side that I just explained. And so, that’s why we said, ‘Until, unless you change, we’re not going to deal with you!’”

 

When Qatar hid al-Qaeda’s master terrorist from the FBI

The Qatari government has been actively supporting the main jihadi terror groups in the Middle East. These included Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria (earlier ISIS) and later Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Julani’s HTS) in Syria; the Taliban in Afghanistan; al-Qaeda (throughout the Middle East and in the USA); Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank/Judea and Samaria; Hezbollah in Lebanon; al-Shabaab (in Somalia ); Kata’eb Hezbollah (in Iraq), and the Houthis (in Yemen). Qatar offered millions of dollars and security help to overthrow Hosni Mubaraq’s Egyptian government, and in its stead to establish Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood regime. During Morsi’s rule, many murderous attacks were carried out against Egyptian Christian communities and Egypt quickly made diplomatic overtures to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Qatar has backed radical Islamist groups in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, in attempts to overthrow these governments. The groups which Qatar backed during the Syrian Civil War were indistinguishable, in terms of brutality and ideology, from al-Qaeda and ISIS.

A member of Qatar’s Royal Family (Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani) concealed future 9/11 al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM – a Kuwait-born Pakistani national on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list) in Doha from FBI searches in 1996, when they came to arrest him under indictment on charges of terrorism. Al-Thani informed only the Qatari Emir (his relative), and KSM was spirited out of Qatar within hours. Richard Clarke, adviser to two U.S. Presidents, attested to this in his book and in the media. “We had located Khalid Sheikh,” Jack Cloonan, a New York-based senior terrorism investigator for the FBI told ABCNEWS. “We were prepared to fly the plane in and to take him out.” But Cloonan says Mohammed was tipped off shortly after Qatar officials were told of the plan, and he immediately headed for the airport. At that time in 2003, FBI agent Cloonan prophetically stated that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed “is the person who is going to attack the United States.”  September 9/11 proved the sober reality of his words.  KSM was later linked to the April 11, 2002 suicide truck bombing of Tunisia’s Djerba synagogue where at least 19 tourists, mostly Germans, were murdered.

 

• Today the unholy triumvirate supporting jihad and jihadis has grown to include not only Qatar, but also Turkey and Iran.

 

Qatar – world jihad’s long media arm

The media organization with the broadest and most powerful reach for jihad – not only in the Middle East, but also across the planet – is Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV, which also serves as Hamas’s global propaganda arm. Its priority goals involve spreading Muslim Brotherhood propaganda through shaping world perspectives. Its primary emphasis is Islamist jihadi propaganda directed at the broader Arab world, but also at Western university students, poisoning minds through the spread of anti-American and anti-Israel broadcasting.

Al-Jazeera was founded in 1996 by Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa al-Thani. The Lawfare Project characterized that network in a 2020 memo as “one of the most influential Islamist extremist propaganda outlets in the world … essentially an arm of the Qatari government.” Sheikh al-Qaradawi would broadcast his sermons and his weekly show, ‘The Guidance of Islam,” on al-Jazeera, which he made use of to advocate suicide bombings. Al-Qaradawi praised Qatar for its role in spreading his teachings.

 

• The recent virulence and violence directed against the Jewish people, the State of Israel and the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is directly connected to these evil reports and curses which are aimed against the sons and daughters of Jacob, which are then picked up and rebroadcast by US and European media. Such media-based actions curse Israel, and according to Genesis 12:3 (ESV – ‘the one who dishonors you I will curse’), their blowback brings God’s curses upon the broadcasters and re-broadcasters of these anti-Semitic videos.

 

Hitting closer to home: Al-Jazeera TV aired a broadcast – ‘the Prostration of Gratitude’ (‘Sajdat al Shukr’ in Arabic) – live on October 7, 2023. This was live TV, zooming in on Hamas’ top jihadi leaders in Doha, Qatar conducting an Islamic prayer of thanks celebrating the ongoing ‘live’ massacre, rape, torture and kidnapping of Israeli youth by Hamas and Gazan residents – at both the Nova Music Festival and at kibbutzim and towns near Gaza. The atrocities were broadcast in real-time on huge digital screens in the jihadi conference room.

On January 24, 2024, al-Jazeera TV aired an interview with Joseph Massad, a professor at Columbia University, who told the network in Arabic: “[T]he U.S. was — and still is – a settler colony, that sanctifies white supremacy over the rest of the people. Therefore, there is a kind of fusion between the U.S. and Israel. Israel reminds it of how things were in the United States in the past.”

Iraqi journalist Sufian al-Samarrai, the Chairman of the Baghdad Post and the New Iraq Centre, has said the West is too blind to see what al-Jazeera stands for and how it manipulates and penetrates Western societies. Al-Samarrai stressed “the massive differences in how news is portrayed in AJ English and AJ Arabic. AJ English projects itself as the standard-bearer of global liberalism, promoting democracy, human rights, freedom, and justice for all. It softly markets political Islam as a strategic solution to many of the Middle East’s problems. In addition, it portrays Islamism as a political ideology that can coexist with people and nations of different religions and ethnicities.”

Al-Samarrai continued: AJ Arabic, on the other hand, “is nothing more than a platform of armed political Islamist gangs, and their ferocity and terrorism are promoted as a legitimate resistance.” He added that “Al-Jazeera is waging a systematic psychological war against Arab societies.” The endgame, al-Samarrai claims, is “paving the way to political Islam represented by the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the region.”

 

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states boycott Qatar

Between June 5-6, 2017, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced a boycott of Qatar, calling that country to “sever all ties to terrorist organizations, specifically the Muslim Brotherhood,” to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, to shut down al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations, and to curb ties with Iran. A 13-point list of demands was sent, aimed at dismantling Qatar’s two-decade-old support for jihadi groups and revolutionary forces attempting to overthrow the Gulf monarchies.

At that time, POTUS Donald Trump had some strong words to say about Qatar:

On 6 June, 2017, Trump tweeted: “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!” He also tweeted: “Good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all references were pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!”

On June 21, 2017, Trump told a rally in Iowa: “We cannot let these incredibly rich nations fund radical Islamic terror or terrorism of any kind. We cannot let it happen. Cannot let it happen.”

 

This Arab Gulf boycott lasted four years, though the root causes behind it are still very much alive and well in the Middle East.

 

Qatar – the largest funder of US universities

Qatar has contributed $5.1 billion to US academic institutions since 1986, more than any other country in the world (see ‘Networks of Hate: Qatari Paymasters, Soft Power and the Manipulation of Democracy’). This ‘soft power’ funding has been used to radicalize students in the US and to catalyze the recent upsurge in anti-Israeli protests at a number of prominent American universities. Part of Qatar’s funding is used to support foreigners studying in the US on student visas, some of whom are suspected by US authorities of inciting hatred of Israel.

Here are three articles giving specific examples of this Qatari strategy:

 

• “Northwestern University has allowed Qatar to transform one of America’s leading institutions into a platform for extremist ideology and terror apologism,” said Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum. “The university’s contractual obligation to respect Qatari laws while employing faculty with documented ties to terrorist organizations represents a fundamental betrayal of American academic values and poses a direct threat to campus safety for Jewish students.”

 

• ‘How Qatar Fuels Campus Extremism in the United States’; September 8, 2025; Benjamin Baird; Middle East Forum

 

• ‘Northwestern Qatar University: Qatar’s Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Influence American Media: A Case Study at Northwestern University: Exposing Title VI Noncompliance, Civil Rights Violations, and Student Radicalization’; Canary Mission; February 2022

 

Lies, betrayal and double-dealing

Qatar is the world’s largest funder and equipper of jihadi terror. Yet, just as King Solomon said in Proverbs, “This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wrong’” (Proverbs 30:20).

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on September 25, 2014, Qatar’s Emir al-Thani blithely stated that his state does not consider jihadi terrorism to be terrorism, but to be a kosher expression of Islamic faith:

 

• “We don’t fund extremists. If you talk about certain movements, especially in Syria and Iraq, we all consider them to be terrorist movements. I know that in America and some countries, they look at some movements as terrorist movements … But there are differences. There are differences between some countries and some people who think that any group which comes from Islamic background are terrorists. And we don’t accept that.”

 

At the opening of the 20^th century, Britian made promises to both the House of ibn-Saud and to the Hashemite dynasty, promising to each group a decisive hegemony over the Islamic jewel of Mecca. In the end, the jihadi warriors of ibn Saud defeated the Bedouin armies of the Hashemites, and Arabia found itself with a new name – Saudi Arabia. At that time, Britain was pulling strings across the entire Middle East, and ended up controlling puppet regimes in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc. But within a space of thirty years, these acquisitions of the Crown were mostly swept away, replaced by the ‘friendly’ bear-hug of Uncle Sam. A deeper analysis of these activities is found in ‘The Secret War against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People’ (John Loftus and Mark Aarons, St. Mark’s Griffin, 1997).

 

• Both Qatar and the USA are playing a deadly double-dealing game right now. Qatar is pretending that it is a Western ally, while simultaneously sponsoring and enabling anti-Western jihadi terrorism. Europe, dependent on Qatari natural gas, is keeping respectfully quiet about the whole matter.

 

The USA’s realpolitik has compromised American believability in Middle Eastern arenas. Qatar hosts the US CENTCOM and the Middle East’s largest US airbase at al-Udeid, while simultaneously hosting the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian jihadi cadres of Hamas at Doha’s Four Seasons Hotel. America is prepared to tolerate the cognitive dissonance that comes along with its own vital strategic interests – which include access to landing strips for its B-2 and B-52 bombers; an unlimited supply of natural gas; and backdoor/front-door channels to top international jihadi generals.

 

Qatar – World Cup slavery and ‘Qatargate’

According to the British newspaper The Guardian of December 14, 2014, Qatar’s royal family “runs a sharia state, where homosexuality is punishable by death, women are severely restricted in their liberties and foreign workers are treated like indentured laborers, stripped of their rights and forced to work in highly dangerous conditions,”

More than 91% of Qatar’s population are foreign workers. They are controlled by an abusive sponsorship system which gives employers almost complete control over their workers. Qatar has not opened an investigation regarding the deaths of masses of foreign workers – between hundreds to thousands, according to estimates – as part of the 2022 World Cup. Here are five articles unpacking this subject:

 

• https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/world-cup-2022-how-many-migrant-workers-have-died-qatar-2022-11-24/
• https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/30/qatar-world-cup-chief-publicly-admits-high-migrant-death-tolls
• https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/the_case_against_qatar_en_web170314.pdf
• https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-many-people-have-died-for-the-qatar-world-cup/a-63763713
• https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/thousands-migrant-workers-died-qatars-extreme-heat-world-cup-forced-reckoning

 

In December 2022, Belgian authorities uncovered the bribery of Members of the European Parliament by Qatar, and attempts to influence EU legislation and policies in the European Parliament. European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili lied for Qatar in exchange for millions in cash to boost the country’s image in the face of criticism over letting it host the 2022 FIFA World Cup: “I alone said that Qatar is a front-runner in labor rights, abolishing kafala [Islamist removal of workers’ protections], introducing minimum wage.” Politico reported on the leaked files, dubbed ‘the Qatargate Files’ in December 2023: “The actions recorded in the documents include some with a significant impact on the workings of the European Union – such as scheming to kill off six parliamentary resolutions condemning Qatar’s human rights record, and working to deliver a visa-free travel deal between Doha and the EU.”

 

Qatar plays a false ‘hostage mediation’ role while subsidizing Hamas’ October 7 attacks

Qatar continues to be the main funder of Hamas, subsidizing its arms purchases, training and operating costs, and granting a protective base to that jihadi organization in Doha’s luxury hotels. As far as October 7, 2023 is concerned, the hands may be the hands of Hamas, but the voice is the voice of Qatar.

Qatar has been playing a duplicitous double-game with the USA – energizing Hamas while simultaneously posturing itself as a neutral third-party desperately wanting to free the Israeli hostages. Nearly every Western country involved here is playing along, shedding copious crocodile clear while they appeal to tainted righteousness. One example of many is from Axios on August 15, 2024:

 

• “CIA director Bill Burns earlier this week awarded the head of the Qatari State Security Agency, Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Khulaifi, the ‘George Tenet’ medal for his work on strengthening intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and Qatar, according to two sources with knowledge of the issue. The ceremony at CIA headquarters earlier this week took place amid intense diplomatic efforts by the U.S. & Qatar to reach Gaza hostage/ceasefire deal.”

 

On Thursday March 10, 2022 former POTUS Joe Biden officially designated Qatar a major non-NATO ally, and in January 2024, quietly extended an agreement with Qatar that extends the US military presence in the terror-supporting Gulf state for another 10 years. Qaradawi, Hamas and CENTCOM – strange bedfellows indeed!

 

‘All is quiet on the Western Front’

Here are some recent quotes from American and Qatari leaders which reveal stunning political hypocrisy, as well as the urgent need for prayer:

POTUS Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address insists on dividing up the Land of Israel: “As we look to the future, the only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution over time. And I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel . . . But there is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees that Palestinians can live in peace with peace and dignity. And there is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its neighbors – including Saudi Arabia.”

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on March 7, 2025, Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani stated that peace is a fundamental principle for Qatar, and therefore, the country works to promote peace in the region and for its allies. According to him, “peace has enemies,” and Qatar’s adversaries (i.e., a heavy-handed hint about Israel) harm the region and its allies, including the United States.

In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump concluded a successful visit to the Arabian Peninsula, including the Emirate of Qatar (May 14-15). At the end of the visit, Trump announced a series of economic achievements, centered around the signing of a mutual trade agreement worth $1.2 trillion, along with economic deals totaling $243.5 billion. These include, among other things, Qatar’s purchase of Boeing aircraft and General Electric aircraft engines for Qatar Airways.

In an official statement on May 16, 2025, following President Trump’s visit, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that “the State of Qatar and the United States of America work closely to address global and regional challenges.” According to Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “President Trump recognized Qatar’s continued efforts in supporting regional peace and praised its contributions as a frontline partner in global counterterrorism, violent extremism and a critical contributor to crisis diplomacy.”

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 09.09.25 04:20 PM EST “This morning, the Trump Administration was notified by the United States Military that Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar . . . Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals . . .  I view Qatar as a strong Ally and friend of the U.S., and feel very badly about the location of the attack . . . I believe this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for PEACE. I also spoke to the Emir and Prime Minister of Qatar, and thanked them for their support and friendship to our Country. I assured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil. I have directed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to finalize the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Qatar. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Fox New Reporter at Morristown Airport, Morris County, NJ at 18:40 ET: : “What is your message to Netanyahu about strikes on Qatar?” Trump: “My message is: they [i.e., Israel] have to be very careful. They have to do something about Hamas. But Qatar has been a great ally to the US. A lot of people don’t know that. I told the Emir – a wonderful person actually – I said ‘You need better public relations. Because you don’t really get the public relations.’ I mean, people talk of it so badly, and they shouldn’t be. Qatar’s been a very great ally. So – Israel and everybody else: we have to be careful. When we attack people, we have to be careful”

A comment here: when Seal Team Six of the US Navy DEVGRU took out Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, they did not ask that Islamic state for prior permission. When a US Reaper drone took out master terrorist Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, or when a US car-bomb in Damascus’ posh Kafar Sousah suburb removed Imad Mughniyeh from further jihadi activities, the US did not ask for prior Iraqi or Syrian permission. Nevertheless, the Western world cheered American boldness and righteous justice. When Israel recently attempted to take out Hamas’ entire terror leadership (ensconced safely in Doha under Qatari protection and financing), it was the Jewish state state’s right to do so, for terrorists have no safe haven. Pray that Western leadership will find the gumption and courage to stand wholeheartedly with its tur allies in such situations.

 

New York, New York

Qatar’s role in bailing out Trump envoy and New York real estate maven Steve Witkoff with hundreds of millions of dollars in a collapsing real estate deal, casts a shadow of potential ethical compromise over Trump foreign-policy team’s ability, as they attempt to objectively evaluate Qatar’s role in Middle East processes.

Zohran Mamdani is an anti-Israeli Socialist who is also the Democratic Party’s candidate in the upcoming mayoral race in New York City. Qatar has funded the film career of arthouse filmmaker and documentarian Mira Nair, Mamdani’s Israel-bashing mother,  investing tens of millions of dollars over the years in propping up her career.

On October 7, 2023, the State of Qatar’s Media & Communication Department accused Israel as being “solely responsible for the ongoing escalation” and being in “flagrant violation of international law” – all this while Qatar-funded Hamas jihadis were raping and torturing young men and women to death, executing kibbutz parents in front of their children, emptying sub-machine guns and throwing grenades into bomb shelters where Holocaust survivors and their families had taken shelter:

 

• Doha – Media & Communication Dept. – 07 October 2023

 The State of Qatar expresses its deep concern over the developments in Gaza Strip and calls on all parties to de-escalate, and exercise maximum restraint.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs holds 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.

The Ministry stresses the need for the international community to act urgently to compel Israel to stop its flagrant violations of international law, respect the resolutions of international legitimacy and the historical rights of the Palestinian people, and to prevent these events from being used as a pretext to ignite a new asymmetric war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates the firm position of the State of Qatar regarding the justice of the Palestinian cause, and the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

 

One day before this op-ed, on Wednesday September 17 al-Khulaifi met in The Hague with the president of the ICC, Judge Tomoko Akane, to pursue “every available legal and diplomatic avenue to ensure accountability for those responsible for Israel’s attack on Qatar.” An unnamed Qatari official stated at that time that Israel’s attack on Hamas terrorists hiding out in Qatar was “unlawful,” adding it “constitutes grave violations of international humanitarian law.”

 

• It seems that Qatar’s attacks on Israel through its proxy Hamas (including the October 2, 2023 massacre and mass rape) – according to Qatari officials – was lawful and did not constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law. It also seems that Qatar’s decades-long sheltering of jihadi murderers should not be a problematic issue for the ICC. The criminal and hypocritical nature of jihad-tinged international politics is exposed here in all its shameful nakedness.

 

On September 18, 2025, nine days after Israel had unsuccessfully attempted to remove Hamas’s top leadership who were hiding out in the Qatari capital of Doha, Qatar’s minister of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, attacked Israel in a Washington Post op-ed. He gaslighted the Jewish state, charging them falsely with very same terrorist activities that Qatar has been supporting over the past three decades through their terror-proxy Hamas:

 

• “For decades, Qatar has been a trusted mediator in some of the world’s most complex conflicts . . . Never before in modern memory has a negotiating party attacked a mediating country. Israel’s missile attack on Doha last week violated the most basic principles of sovereignty and nonintervention enshrined in international law. It was an assault on the very practice of mediation. It has cast doubt over the ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Hamas. And it was made on the sovereign territory of a U.S. ally . . . Israel has not been held accountable . . .  The prime minister has become a major threat to peace and security in the Middle East — and to the international legal order . . .  Israel itself has repeatedly relied on Qatar as a channel. The Hamas office in Doha was established in coordination with the United States to enable indirect communication, avoid escalation and keep a door open for diplomacy . . . For Netanyahu to now criticize Qatar for hosting Hamas officials is to insult the intelligence of the international community, the media and even the Israeli public.”

 

In light of Qatar’s stunning reserves of natural gas, perhaps al-Khulaifi’s hypocritical attack could be renamed ‘natural gas-lighting’…

 

How shall we then pray?

 

• There is an urgent need for prayer. These matters concerns the well-being and survival of both the USA and Israel. These matters touch on Islamist jihad’s 1400-year-old strategic goal of conquering the world, and especially vanquishing Judeo-Christian society (which threat Charlie Kirk was adamant in continuing to point out).

 

• We encourage you to take up the intercessory challenge here, and lift up this torch in prayer.

 

• And also, please pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth!

 

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

 

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