“Inviting Qatar and Turkey to play a role in the Gaza Strip means again bringing Iran in through the back door.“
Det skriver den meget kompetente arabiske journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute her
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If Qatar and Turkey are permitted to play a major role in the governance and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war, it would mean a return to the pre-October 7, 2023 era, which saw the Iran-backed terror group fully controlling the coastal territory.
In addition to Iran, Qatar and Turkey have long been sponsoring and funding Hamas and providing the terror group’s leaders with shelter.
Inviting Qatar and Turkey to play a role in the Gaza Strip means again bringing Iran in through the back door.
Both countries have strong relations and shared interests with Iran, which, according to reports, worked with Hamas to plan its October 7 invasion of Israel.
Iran also reportedly gave the green light for the terror group to launch the assault during a meeting in Lebanon on October 2.
Despite the severe blow it was dealt as a result of the Israeli and American airstrikes, there are no signs whatsoever that the Iranian regime is ready to recognize Israel’s right to exist, join the Abraham Accords, and abandon its terror proxies in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
“Amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Qatar has aligned itself closer to Tehran,” the Iran International media outlet reported in December 2024.
“This was evident during Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Doha in October 2024. The two countries discussed enhancing cooperation in economy, energy, culture, and education, with a particular focus on resolving the $6 billion in Iranian assets frozen in Qatar…
“Though Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Iran present their partnership as a means to promote regional stability, their alliance is rooted in political and strategic interests.
“The cooperation between Tehran and Doha is often framed in idealistic terms but conceals a deeper agenda focused on power, influence, and suppression.”
Last year, Turkey signed 10 agreements with Iran for collaboration in energy, free trade, and transportation during a visit to Ankara by former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, according to Iran International.
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“While the Islamic Republic [of Iran] emphasizes the economic aspects of the relationship to improve morale at home, the significance of Raisi’s visit to Ankara lies in discussions on regional security and stability…”
US President Donald J. Trump, despite excellent intentions, might come to understand that the No. 1 priority for the Iranian and most Arab regimes is to stay in power and protect the interests of their leaders.
In the time-honored tradition of Arab politeness, these countries may well be telling Trump what he would like to hear — secure in the knowledge that in three years, he will be off their backs, unable to pressure them anymore.
Meanwhile, they will have positioned themselves comfortably in Gaza, learned more about Israeli technology, and be free to do as they like.
It is premature to assume that the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites is a game-changer for the region. We have not yet seen the Iranian regime talk about abandoning its plan to acquire nuclear weapons.
Moreover, we still have not seen any indication from other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, that they are prepared, unconditionally, to join the Abraham Accords.
Earlier this year, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Turkey of cooperating with Iranian attempts to smuggle weapons to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, saying:
“There is an intensified Iranian effort to smuggle money into Lebanon for Hezbollah to restore its power and status. This effort to being carried out, among other channels, via Turkey and with its cooperation.”
Turkey, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “is one of Hamas’s most important strategic allies,” according to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
“Turkey hosts senior Hamas figures, some of whom have received Turkish citizenship, and provides political, diplomatic and propaganda support, as well as economic and humanitarian assistance.
“Hamas has established one of its most important overseas centers in Turkey, primarily operated by prisoners released in the Gilad Shalit exchange deal of 2011. It uses Turkey to plan terrorist attacks and transfer funds to finance terrorist activities inside Israel, in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, and to raise and launder money in support of its terrorist operations, including the October 7, 2023, attack and massacre.”
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Alarmed by the talk about the growing role of Qatar and Turkey in the Gaza crisis, a senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer cautioned:
“Qatar and certainly Turkey must not have a foothold in Gaza again. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Jordan hate Hamas and are more concerned about the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Qatar is the one that funded Hamas in the years leading up to October 7…. There is no guarantee that this money will be returned to the recovery of the [Hamas] military wing, and not just to reconstruction projects in Gaza…. The [Israeli] political echelon will have to convince Trump that there is a difference between the Arab countries: Qatar and Turkey are both Muslim Brotherhood members who support Hamas. The UAE and Egypt hate Hamas.”
Qatar has been a key financial supporter of Hamas, transferring more than $1.8 billion to the group over the past two decades.
Former Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani was the first state leader to visit the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip in 2012. In 2021, Qatar pledged $360 million of annual support to the Gaza Strip, in part to subsidize salaries of Hamas employees.
Documents seized by the IDF during the war reveal Qatar’s intensivee collaboration with Hamas spanning years, including attempts to thwart regional peace efforts by the US, marginalize Egyptian influence in Gaza, and bolster the roles of Turkey and Iran.
Qatar’s payments were significant enough that in December 2009, then Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told Qatar’s foreign minister that the Gulf state’s cash was “Hamas’s main artery.”
In May 2021, Haniyeh (then head of the terror organizations “political bureau”) told Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 atrocities, that the emir of Qatar had privately “agreed on discreet financial support” for Hamas.
The emir, according to Haniyeh, “agreed in principle to supply [Hamas] discreetly, but he does not want anyone in the world to know. Until now, $11 million has been raised from the emir for the leadership of Hamas.”
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The documents revealed that Qatari intelligence officials met with a Hamas representative to discuss supervising special training units for Hamas fighters on military bases in Qatar and Turkey, and for the integration of Palestinians who fled Syria (during the civil war there) to Lebanon, into Hamas’s terrorist battalions in Lebanon.
According to the documents, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told the emir of Qatar in 2019: “We must work together to oppose [Trump’s] Deal of the Century [peace plan] and eliminate it.”
The documents showed that Hamas and Qatar planned to marginalize Egypt’s role as a mediator between Israel and the terror group, while promoting Turkey’s influence in the Middle East.
In 2022, Sinwar wrote to Haniyeh that Turkey should also take a leading role in efforts against Israel:
“It is on you to begin to prepare the campaign. We must begin immediately with our allies – Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. Qatari and Turkish diplomacy must be in a leading role. Our role is to make it hard for the [Israeli] occupation to breathe and ensure the severing of international actors’ diplomatic ties with them.”
It is laughable — and dangerous — to assume that under their current rulers, Qatar and Turkey, as well as Iran, would ever play a positive and constructive role in ensuring peace and stability in the Middle East.
These three regimes have always been on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and several Islamist terror groups, including Islamic State (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Qatar, Turkey and Iran have chosen to side with Hamas and denounce Israel for daring to defend itself against the terror group.
Qatar and Turkey are not interested in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Instead, they are interested, with the backing of Iran, in rebuilding Hamas’s military and civilian capabilities and ensuring that the terror group, perhaps in some rebranded form, remains in power.
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Her er en artikel af Melanie Phillips, som er enig med Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute
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(Oct. 16, 2025 / JNS)
If anyone thought that the return to their homes of the 20 living Israeli hostages meant the end of Israel’s Oct. 7 war, they can’t have been paying attention.
U.S. President Donald Trump himself said repeatedly that the war had ended. Then he noticed that, true to form, Hamas was reneging on aspects of his own 20-point ceasefire deal.
In particular, it has failed to return all of the bodies of the hostages it murdered and has also refused to disarm. Instead, it instantly started to kill its enemies among Gaza’s clans to show that it was not defeated and still able to control the population.
How this will play out is currently unclear. Trump has said, “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them.” What “we” presumably means in this context is that the Israelis will be permitted to finish them off—thus making the adulation Trump has received for “ending the war” from all those prime ministers and presidents lining up to grovel at his feet in Sharm-el-Sheikh look distinctly premature.
Far from feeling defeated, Hamas knows that it has been handed a powerful card for its continued survival—the Trump administration’s infatuation with Qatar. Astoundingly, Doha is now very firmly one of Trump’s supposed guarantors for making a permanent peace.
Qatar is hated by the other Gulf States because, as a Muslim Brotherhood jihadi regime, it’s the fount of Islamist extremism that threatens these states’ own security. It’s also the sponsor, funder and protector of Hamas. So not surprisingly, Saudi Arabia is alarmed that Qatar will restore Hamas to Gaza and undermine attempts to deradicalize the population of the coastal enclave, which is a central pillar of this peace plan.
In addition, if anyone thought that a fragile peace in Gaza would mean an end to the war against Israel and the Jewish people, which has been raging out of control in the West for the past two years, they also haven’t been paying sufficient attention.
The so-called protests calling for a ceasefire and aid to the Gazans aren’t ending just because there’s a ceasefire and aid is flooding into the Strip. Perish the thought! The protest organizers say the ceasefire is very nice but irrelevant. Their aim remains as it always was: the destruction of Israel.
And so the hate marches have continued. The demonstrators have recalibrated their language. They’re no longer able to plug the “starvation” or “famine” hoax, now that everyone can see crowds of well-fed Gazans on the streets, restaurants mysteriously heaving with delicacies and even the very latest iPhone 17 on sale.
But they’re still clinging to the poisonous fiction of an Israeli “genocide” in Gaza. And to replace “ceasefire now,” they’re going to focus relentlessly on Israel’s “apartheid,” “occupation” and “settlers,” as well as call for boycotts, divestment and an end to Israeli “colonialism.”
One British pro-Palestine student group said its work was “not over” until “Zionism is completely eradicated.” Eradicating Zionists surely can’t be far behind.
The unprecedented campaign against Israel and the Jews was always about far more than Israel’s behavior in Gaza. The Islamist-led demonstrations that started on Oct. 7, 2023—while Israelis were still being butchered and kidnapped, and weeks before the Israel Defense Forces went full force into the Gaza Strip to battle Hamas—weren’t protests at all. They were a call to arms.
The Oct. 7 attack fired a starting gun for what Islamists believed was the final push to destroy not only Israel but the West. Those demonstrators were in a state of euphoria. They believed that the invasion of Israel and slaughter of its inhabitants had blown an enormous hole through Israel’s impregnability. They were on their way to destroying first Israel and then the West. And they still believe they are on the path to victory.
Those organizing the refocused Western hate fests are buoyed because, while war against Israel and the Jews has experienced a setback in the Middle East, it has had no pushback at all in the West.
On the contrary, liberal Western governments—the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia—have been enthusiastically joining in the diplomatic war to destroy Israel through demonization and delegitimization based on the script served up to them by Hamas, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the Palestinian Arab-Israeli online magazine +972, Ahmed Moor gloated this week: “Jewish supremacy in Palestine—the core tenet of Zionism—is increasingly regarded as illegitimate across the globe. It is far too early to declare that the Zionist era in Palestine is over, but October 2025 portends a different future. If the genocide has rendered Gaza uninhabitable for Palestinians, it has also made the world newly inhospitable to Zionism.”
This is expressing itself in ever-more jaw-dropping Western moral sickness. Videos on social media show Gazans being brutally tortured and murdered by Hamas. Western “pro-Palestinians” have either been silent about this treatment of the people they claim to support or have even applauded their execution as “collaborators” with Israel.
They have not only been lionizing the terrorists released from Israeli prisons but calling them “hostages,” thus equating genocidal mass murderers with the victims of their regime.
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour went one better when she claimed that the Israeli hostages were “probably being treated better than the average Gazan.” The subsequent outcry forced her to issue a mealy-mouthed apology.
In Britain, an Oxford University student was filmed whipping up a crowd into a chant of “Gaza, Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground!”
He has now been suspended from the university and arrested. But calls to destroy Israel and murder Jews have been tolerated at these hate marches for the past two years while the police and government ministers bleat about “free speech.”
The reason for this lunacy is that the Jews are at the very core of the crisis of Western identity. Liberal universalists hate Israel as a Western nation-state, and because they believe that the Jews are behind capitalism and its associated supposed oppression and colonialism. Isolationists on the American right hate Israel because they believe that it sucks the United States into foreign wars, thus demonstrating that the Jews are a global conspiracy to put others at risk for their own benefit.
In Tablet magazine, Michael Doran writes: “The antisemitism of left and right is not a noxious gas seeping out of the soil and wafting into politics. It is being weaponized—cleverly and deliberately—by organized forces for political warfare. Progressives festoon their bigotry with banners of diversity, equity, and inclusion, demanding Jews disown Israel. Meanwhile, [Tucker] Carlson updates the Protocols to paint Jews as the hidden hand behind the empire, insisting the covenant be cut so American patriots can smash unelected concentrations of global power.”
Doran writes that the obsessional argument over Israel is, at base, an argument over the identity of America, which was originally cast in Israel’s image.
This is no less true of Britain, whose constitutional monarchy was drawn up by its 18th-century Puritan evangelical creators explicitly using the template of the ancient kingdom of Israel—the same template used by the same people who became the founding fathers of America’s constitutional settlement. And Judaism also lies at the very foundation of the West’s moral codes.
That biblically based culture has been under relentless onslaught for decades by liberal universalist Western elites. The result has been the replacement of morality by ideologies based on the false division of the world into the powerful and powerless. This opened the way for Palestinianism, which casts the fictitious “Palestinians” falsely as the indigenous people of the land of Israel who were displaced by the alleged Jewish interlopers—the only people for whom it was ever their national kingdom.
The Islamist Palestinian cause, which has taken the place of Vietnam as the acme of progressivism, has opened the way in turn for the Islamization of the West.
This is a movement, through Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, to replace the Jews and Christians with Islam—and it’s now got the wind in its sails. Does Trump realize this? Israel does. The West’s craven elites certainly don’t.
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