28-03-2025
The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 12, March 28, 2025
1. MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11899, Qatari Defense Minister In Past Tweets: 'We Are All Hamas'; 'We Must Plan How To Influence The Decision-Makers In The U.S.' March 27, 2025.
U.S. Plans To Sell $1.96 Billion Of MQ-9 Drones To Qatar, Al-Monitor, March 26, 2025.
2. MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11887, Qatar's Al-Jazeera Network Provides Media Training For Officials Of New Syrian Government, Syrian Journalists, And Syrian Communications Students, March 24, 2025.
3. MEMRI TV Clip No. 11909, Al-Jazeera TV Pundit Saeed Ziad: Israel Has Left Palestinians With No Choice But To Fight With The Flesh Of Their Children, March 19, 2025.
4. Report: Qatar U.N. Ambassador Hend Al-Muftah Is Rabid Antisemite, Homophobe, Anti-Western Conspiracist, UN Watch, September 12, 2022.
"Let me quote their Ambassador, Hend Al-Muftah, in her own words. She has tweeted: 'The Jews... dominated, tyrannized and ruled the world'; The Ambassador accused Israel of orchestrating 9/11, claiming 'Zionists' created Al-Qaeda. She boasted of her Qatari education, in the daily morning anthem: 'We learned from a young age that the Jews are our enemies!' Hillel Neuer, UN Watch director, March 26, 2025.
5. Republican Lawmakers Increasingly Uneasy About Witkoff's Performance In Envoy Role: "Pro-Israel Republicans told J[ewish] I[nsider] they have concerns about Witkoff's comments on Iran, Russia and Qatar, among other issues," Jewish Insider, March 25, 2025.
6. The Trump Foreign-Policy Team's Real Problem: "The Yemen attack leak was a bad mistake. But a clueless Steve Witkoff's embrace of Qatar and rationalization of Hamas betray the president's realist agenda." Jonathan Tobin, JNS, March 26, 2025.
* Yigal Carmon is President and Founder of MEMRI.
