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Arab Journalists On Israel's Attack In Doha: Qatar Cannot Host Hamas Terrorists And Expect To Remain Immune From Attack; Israel Has The Right To Eliminate Those Who Seek To Destroy It
Following Israel's September 9, 2025 attack targeting senior Hamas leaders residing in the Qatari capital of Doha, a number of liberal Arab journalists and activists posted criticism on their X accounts of what they referred to as Qatar's hypocrisy. Qatar, they said, is both hosting terrorists and operating a powerful media network – Al-Jazeera – that incites to terrorism, all while presenting itself as "a neutral mediator" and "a media powerhouse." Some contended that Israel has the right to eliminate those who are working to destroy it, adding that Israel does what it says it will do and that it had eliminated the element that only two days previously had boasted of its responsibility for the murder of six innocent Israelis in the September 8, 2025 Jerusalem terror attack.[1]
Stating that Israel's attack in Doha had shattered the illusion of Qatar as an honest broker for peace and a media powerhouse "that plays in the big leagues," commenters even called on Qatar not to "abandon the security of the Gulf for the sake of a group of terrorists that live in hotels and concoct schemes against" other countries and to expel them if it does not want to be part of the war.
This report reviews examples of the criticism of Qatar by liberal Arab journalists and activists:
Clerics And Journalists Close To Qatar Celebrate Deadly Shooting Against Israeli Civilians In Jerusalem, Encourage Further Terror Attacks
Journalists in Qatar's government media, including the Al-Jazeera network, as well as members of the International Union of Muslim Clerics (IUMS), an arm of the Qatari regime that disseminates anti-West Islamic terrorist ideology,[1] took to X to celebrate the September 8, 2025 shooting in Jerusalem in which six Israeli civilians were murdered. The clerics and journalists praised the s ... Läs mer...
