The Attack on Qatar and the End of Arab Illusions – Elijah J. Magnier

Thursday, September 11, 2025 9:31 PM

Friends + Interlocutors,

Another excellent example demonstrating who's in charge of the Middle East. Who calls the shots. It ain’t Uncle Sam. The feckless leaders of the Gulf principalities and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia must be in shock. Their alliance with the U.S. and their unholy, stealth alliance with Israel are worth zero consideration and no protection from attack. They are regarded as stooges, not allies.

The entire area in point of fact is a free-fly, free-fire zone for Israel, the regional superpower. It has attained that lofty status thanks to the unlimited backing from Washington, England and Europe. Notice has been given. What will the suckered and bewildered Arabs do in response? Probably nothing.

If they had any self-respect, the U.S. Air Force base in Doha would be shut down pronto along with the U.S. Embassy. The so-called Abraham Accords, designed to throttle justice for the long-suffering Palestinians, would be thrown into the trash can. The cozy financial arrangements with Trump and his family would be frozen. The latter move might finally get the Don's attention. 

Patrick
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https://ejmagnier.com/2025/09/10/netanyahus-war-without-borders-the-doha-strike-and-the-end-of-arab-illusions/

Netanyahu’s War Without Borders: The Doha Strike and the End of Arab Illusions

 By Elijah J. Magnier –

Since 7 October 2023, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pursued a doctrine of “peace through military force.” Last week, that doctrine reached new extremes with the bombing of a Hamas leadership meeting in Qatar’s capital, Doha. It was not only an assassination attempt—it was an act of war carried out on the soil of a U.S. ally, under the watch of the largest American airbase in the Middle East. 

The implications reverberate far beyond Gaza or Doha: this was a turning point in Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” vision, a display of impunity under Washington’s cover, and a reckoning for Middle Eastern leaders who believed American protection to be a guarantee.

Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar—the largest U.S. facility in the Middle East—was supposed to represent a shield of security. Instead, the Doha strike revealed it as a mirage. Time and again, U.S. assurances have proven hollow.

In 1982, American envoys promised Beirut that Israeli forces would not enter the city and that Palestinian camps would be protected. Days later, Israeli-backed militias carried out the Sabra and Chatila massacre under Israeli watch, while U.S. guarantees dissolved into silence.

Four decades later, the pattern remained. In September 2024, the Biden administration vowed that Israel would not bomb Beirut. Within weeks, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated and Israeli missiles pounded the capital. What had been presented as restraint was exposed as theatre.

Only a few months ago, U.S. officials told Tehran they were ready for nuclear talks in Oman, war plans were already in motion. Israel’s twelve-day campaign against Iran began on the eve of those supposed negotiations. Diplomacy was dangled as bait while the strike clock was ticking.

The Doha episode fits the same script. Twenty-four hours before Israeli jets hit Hamas’s meeting, Donald Trump announced he was sending a peace proposal to Hamas for discussion. Hours later, as the document was being debated, the bombs fell. The timing suggests not coincidence but orchestration: Trump’s initiative served as bait, the meeting as the target.

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