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Wednesday, June 11th 2025 / Wednesday, June 11th 2025
“Qatar’s “soft power” globally, including in the United States, goes far beyond media reach or security cooperation.” — Bassem Eid SIMILAR, YET DIFFERENT Trump Brings Honesty to the U.S.-Israel Alliance: Aviva Klompus, WSJ, May 18, 2025 — The Trump administration has taken a series of foreign-policy steps in recent weeks that are quietly reshaping the […]
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Wednesday, June 11th 2025
Bassem Eid IPT, June 10, 2025 “… unlike Iran, with its regular “Death to America” chants, Qatar has never publicly positioned itself in opposition to the American-led international order.” How did Hamas do it on October 7? This time, I don’t mean to ask how they had so little humanity as to butcher over 1,200 […]
John Aziz Quillette, May 20, 2025 “Qatari organisations have made substantial investments in American universities including Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas A&M, and Cornell, all of which have established satellite campuses in Qatar.” Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East has thrown a spotlight onto Qatar, an oil-rich emirate that punches above its weight in […]
David Suissa Jewish Journal, June 10, 2025 “To award Georgetown’s highest honor to someone openly praising a mass murderer is not intercultural dialogue. It’s capitulation.” A sweeping new report has cast fresh light on the growing role of foreign influence in American higher education, reporting that Georgetown University received more than $1 billion from Qatari sources […]
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Friday, April 4th 2025
SHABBAT READING Nehama Leibowitz: A Pioneering Orthodox Scholar and Teacher: Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler and Prof. Edward Breuer, The Torah.com, no date — Nehama Leibowitz (September 3, 1905 – April 12, 1997, 5 Nisan 5757) was one the most influential Jewish Bible scholars of the twentieth century, and certainly the first Orthodox woman Bible scholar […]
Keren Setton / The Media Line Ynet News, Apr. 2, 2025 “Qatar understands that countries and people are looking to promote short-term interests, and that by helping them, it gains a foothold.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly left his trial on Monday to give testimony in the latest scandal involving his senior advisers and their […]
Jeremy Sharon Times of Israel, Apr. 3, 2025 “So what laws, then, could Urich and Feldstein have broken?” The Qatargate affair that has enveloped the Prime Minister’s Office in recent weeks has, in the last two days, roiled the airwaves and scandalized the news pages. Murky details have emerged of pro-Qatar lobbyists, spin doctors in […]
Jeremy Sharon and TOI staff Times of Israel, Apr. 3, 2025 “Unfortunately, the issue of leaks from the investigation is very damaging, and complicates it, and nothing has been done about this matter.” The Rishon Lezion Magistrates Court on Thursday extended the detention of the two key suspects in the Qatargate affair for another day […]
Matti Friedman The Free Press, Apr. 1, 2025 “Improving Qatari credibility in Israeli eyes would have the effect of doing the same where it really matters: in Washington.” Even those accustomed to the roiling wrestling ring that is Israeli politics can’t remember a week like the last one. Multiple aides to Israel’s own prime minister, […]
Wednesday, February 26th 2025 / Wednesday, February 26th 2025
“It is time for the new US administration to understand that Qatar is the problem, not the solution. That Qatar is permitted to serve as a mediator between Israel and Hamas is ridiculous since, in actuality, “Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar; Qatar Launched a War Against Israel By Means of Hamas; The Declaration of […]
Wednesday, February 26th 2025 / Tuesday, February 25th 2025
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Feb. 19, 2025 “Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel regularly lambasts the region’s monarchies and strongmen for failing to support the Palestinians, all while the Qatari monarchy itself cultivates cordial ties with Western powers like the United States, having thousands of American technocrats and professors on its generous […]
Joseph Puder JNS, Feb. 24, 2025 “The Qataris are playing a sinister, two-faced game with the Americans and Europeans. While investing in large American and European enterprises, they are also funding terror against Israel and the West.” Qatar is a small country of less than 5,000 square miles that yields enormous power due to its immense […]
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