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Qatar and Qatari Press Express Unreserved Support for Massive Hamas Terror Attack on Israel, Hold Israel Solely Responsible for It: MEMRI, Oct. 9, 2023 — “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.”
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Qatar Needs to Arrest, Not ‘Mediate’ With, Hamas Leaders: Rep. Jack Bergman, Washington Times, Oct. 16, 2023
The Qatari Dilemma Will Haunt Israel After the War with Hamas – Opinion: Yoel Guzansky, Jerusalem Post, Nov. 1, 2023
Qatar’s War for Young American Minds: Eli Lake, The Free Press, Oct. 24, 2023
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
The Ongoing Failure to Report: Yale University, Qatar, and Undisclosed Foreign Funding: ISGAP, 2023 — In July 2019 at the Department of Justice (DOJ), in Washington, D.C., Dr. Charles Asher Small, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Director, presented the findings of an ISGAP research project which began in 2012, entitled “Follow the Money
How did Qatar Become the Go-to Mediator Between Hamas and Israel?: Middle East Eye, YouTube, Dec. 2, 2023
The Future of Hamas in Qatar: Giorgio Cafiero, Stimson, Nov. 2, 2023 — The Gaza war presents the most severe test to relations between Hamas and Qatar, which has served as an intermediary between the militant group and its adversaries for many years and, in the process, boosted Doha’s geopolitical and diplomatic clout.
Hamas Ties to Qatar Have Cost: Rabit Mukhtasar, Adnanabuamer, July 31, 2019 — When Hamas decided to leave Syria — a consequential and historic decision — I was certain that no Arab country — including Arab Spring countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya — would agree to host the organization on its territory for many considerations, including avoiding both angering the US and depriving that country’s Islamists of popular support as a result of them having Islamist Palestinian leaders among them.
