TEHRAN – Last Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saa announced that his country has accepted a US ceasefire proposal to end the war in Gaza. The next day, Israel was in Qatar’s capital and tried to assassinate Hamas leaders to discuss the same proposal.
The attacks shocked Qatar and the larger Arab and Islamic worlds. Qatar is becoming the sixth Middle Eastern country that has been hit by Israel in the past few months. “For decades, Qatar, like other parts of the (Persian) Gulf, believed that close ties with the US would ensure its security.
As a global diplomacy capital, Qatar was the center of negotiations with the Taliban as the US withdraws its troops from Afghanistan. Return of some Ukrainian children from Russia. Release of Israeli hostages held by Israeli Hamas and Palestinian prisoners. The same goes for a short ceasefire in Gaza.
Guardian columnist Nasrine Malik says Qatar was aiming to “consolidate its position as Switzerland in the Middle East.” However, Qatar was surprisingly punished for the services he has provided to silence his guns and resolve conflicts with his hostile countries. Perhaps they would have been killed by Taliban fighters to this day if Qatar hadn’t been mediated. Or more Israeli hostages have been killed or taken prisoner of Hamas during the regime’s relentless attacks in Gaza.
Qatar’s capital was attacked while trying to save Israel from the quagmire of Gaza, which despite two years of brutal battles, which made it impossible to force Palestinian fighters to succumb to Israel’s illegal demands.
Qatar was also attacked while ranked as the second-largest buyer of American weapons just behind Saudi Arabia. Qatar is also widely considered to be the largest and most strategically important US security partner in the Persian Gulf.
Furthermore, the small country’s Aludade Air Force Base is the largest US military base in the Middle East. Hosts important US commands: Centcom Forward, Air Force Central Command Forward, and Special Operations Command Central. Qatar has also invested more than $8 billion in the development of this base for our use.
All of this suggests that when it comes to Israel, the US is ready to sacrifice close partners like Qatar. The attack on Doha serves as a wake-up call to other Persian Gulf Arab countries. They now realize that the US is not a reliable partner. Perhaps they realize that the United States is a great con man and is only trying to “milk” the rich Arab countries.
Israeli media say Washington gave the green light to Israel’s attack on Doha. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close associates have claimed they have decided to attack Doha without US permission. But no one believes it. If so, it has superficially announced why the Trump administration did not condemn the attack, and that it is not satisfied with the event.
If this claim is true, why is US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visiting Israel within a week of the attack, and Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the United States next week. If the Trump administration had been upset by the attack, Rubio would have visited Qatar and demonstrated a state’s digitization, as did the UAE and Saudi Arab states, rather than Israel, to attack and express their national sovereignty.
Furthermore, if the attack was not carried out by Washington’s green light, war detective Netanyahu warned Qatar that he must “exile” Hamas members or that “if you don’t, you have to bring them to trial.”
While carrying out these malicious acts, Israel is appealing to the rest of the Arab countries to participate in the Abrahamian agreement. It has become clear that Israel’s major push for normalization with Arab countries is intended to buy legitimacy. Fortunately, however, the country that normalized relations with the administration reacted strongly to the Doha strike.
The incredibly shocking attack on Doha clearly shows that Israel is unaware of the boundaries of its hegemonic agenda, as Washington gave it a Carte Blanche to do whatever it wants.
These developments indicate that Arab and Muslim countries in the region must change tact and close the ranks. The proposals by former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi could serve as a roadmap to counter Israel. Before the summit of Arab and Muslim countries in Doha supporting Qatar, Salehi said, “The best practical outcome of this summit could be a “collective security agreement” that includes the Persian Gulf countries.”
Furthermore, Persian Gulf countries can diversify their partnerships with emerging non-Western countries in a rapidly rising and blooming multipolar world.
Muslims and Arab countries must prove to the United States that Israel cannot do anything their proxy wants.