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6 days ago
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S. Korea's Crucial June 3 Election: Could The U.S. Lose South Korea To Communist China?
On June 3, 2025, South Korea heads to the polls for the snap presidential elections, triggered by the impeachment of pro-U.S. conservative president Yoon Suk-yeol, who pursued economic decoupling from China.[1] (Source: X) David Eunkoo Kim To FOX News: This Election Is Widely Seen As A Pivotal Moment For South Korea On June 1, 2025, David Eunkoo Kim, founder and representative of Truth Forum, a conservative youth organization founded at Seoul National University, gave an interview to FOX news about the crucial upcoming elections in South Korea. David Eunkoo Kim, who works with MEMRI (See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 772, South Korea's Democrats, Crisis, And What The U.S. Must Know, by David Eunkoo Kim, May 16, 2025) said to FOX news: "This election is widely seen as a pivotal moment for South Korea because the stakes – both domestically and geopolitically – are extraordinarily high."[2] Then, commenting about Lee Jae-myung, current Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) candidate at the June 3 presidential elections, David Eunkoo Kim added: "Throughout his political career, [Lee] has consistently aligned himself with both pro-North Korean and pro-Chinese agendas. He has been implicated in sending funds to North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions, and his deference to China has been nothing short of submissive." David Eunkoo Kim, founder and president of the Truth Forum (See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 772, South Korea's Democrats, Crisis, And What The U.S. Must Know, by David Eunkoo Kim, May 16, 2025) David Eunkoo Kim In The New York Sun: "The Leftist DPK Presidential Candidate Lee Jae-Myung Actively Advocates For Improving Relations With China" In a recent article to the New York Sun, David Eunkoo Kim stressed: "The leftist DPK presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung actively advocates for improving relations with China and criticized the 'inequality' of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, making him a prominent pro-China politician. Lee advocates for 'autonomous and balanced diplomacy centered on national interests.' He even mentioned that, if elected, he would cancel the THAAD (American anti-ballistic missile defense system) deployment and take wartime operational control of South Korean forces. Lee embraces a dangerous revisionist interpretation of Korean history – one that casts doubt on the very legitimacy of the Republic itself, absolves the violent legacy of communism, and promotes anti-American resentment."[3] David Eunkoo Kim then added: "The DPK's embrace of revisionist history has translated into real-world deference to authoritarian regimes, most notably China."
Memri
28-02-2025
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The MEMRI Weekly: February 21-28, 2025
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. MEMRI REPORTS MEMRI Daily Brief No. 731 - What Does Öcalan's Announcement Really Mean? February 28, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11858 - Pakistani Columnist: '444 Terrorist Attacks In Which At Least 685 Security Forces Personnel Lost Their Lives, Occurred In [Pakistan] In 2024', February 28, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11861 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas At Fatah Revolutionary Council Session: We Will Not Stop The Payments To The Prisoners And The Martyrs' Families, February 28, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 730 – Whither Public Diplomacy In A New Trump Administration? February 27, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 729 – The 10th Anniversary Of The Murder Of Russian Politician Boris Nemtso, February 27, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 728 – Series Of 'Accidents' Resulting In Destruction Of Undersea Infrastructure Are A Chinese Salami-Slicing Operation, February 27, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11856 - Changes To School Curricula By Syrian Interim Government Spark Criticism For Encouraging Extremism, February 27, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11859 - Senior Saudi Journalist Tariq Al-Homayed Following Hamas Official Musa Abu Marzouk's 'New York Times' Interview: He's The Most Walked-Back Hamas Official, February 27, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11860 - Russian Reactions To U.S. Vice President JD Vance's Speech At The Munich Security Conference: Vance Delivered A 'Public Slap' To Europe's 'Smug Elite', February 27, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11857 - Ahwaz Leader Dr. Aref Al Kaabi: The Regime In Tehran Has No Moral Authority, February 27, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1816 - The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 8, February 28, 2025, February 27, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1815 - Amid Widespread LGBTQ+ Support For Palestinians And Even Hamas Since October 7, Extremist Imams In U.S. Express Their Ongoing Support For Islamic Punishments For Homosexuality – Including Throwing From Roofs, Stoning To Death, Chopping Off Body Parts, February 27, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 727 – Rising Israeli Voices Against Qatar And Its Sponsorship Of Islamist Terrorism – Four Challenges For The Trump Administration, February 26, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11855 - Cartoons In Independent Egyptian Daily Present U.S. President Trump As A Nazi, February 26, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11854 - American National Bolshevik And Elected Official Visits Middle East With American Communist Party Chairman Haz Al-Din, Interviews Hamas Leaders And Attends Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah; Al-Din Reportedly Detained By Homeland Security Upon Return, February 25, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11852 - Palestinian Authority Presents Terrorists Killed By Israel As Murdered Civilians, While It Fights Terrorists From The Same Organizations, February 25, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 726 – The U.S. Designation Of Qatar Into The Visa Waiver Program By The Biden Administration In Its Last Months Does Not Meet 'Stringent Security Requirements' As Claimed By Department Of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas And Secretary Of State Blinken – READ THIS VERSION, February 25, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 725 – Kurdistan As An Energy Alternative To Iran, February 25, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11851 - Emirati Columnist: Khamenei's Boasting About A Hamas Victory Over Israel Is A Distortion Of The Facts; Iran Is The One That Should Rebuild Gaza, February 24, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 724 – Qatar-U.S. Law Enforcement Cooperation Agreement, Signed In Biden Administration's Final Months Ostensibly To Enhance The Fight Against Terrorism, Compromises Americans' Rights And Freedoms – While Qatar Still Hosts Terror Headquarters, February 24, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 723 – Ukraine Marks The Third Anniversary Of The Invasion, February 24, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11849 - Ahwazi State Executive Conference In Germany: 'A Significant Step Toward Internationalizing The Cause And Exposing Iran's Reality', February 21, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11850 - American National Bolshevik And Face Of White Jihad Movement Jackson Hinkle, Who Has Close Ties To Russia, Takes Middle East Tour, Beginning In Qatar To Meet With Hamas Leadership, Then Lebanon Where He Will Attend Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, February 21, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1816 - One Day After U.S. Draws 'Red Line' Over Hizbullah Participation In Lebanese Government, Triggering Threats Against It And Its Representative, Lebanon Announces New Government That Includes Hizbullah, And U.S. Gives In And Welcomes It, February 21, 2025 MEMRI TV Monitor Project MEMRI TV Clip No. 11860 – Fatah Official In Ireland Jihad Jara Slams Qatari Initiative To Integrate Hamas Into The PLO: Qatar Is A Rogue State That Conspires Against The PLO; It Destroyed Gaza With Its Deceitful Al-Jazeera TV; We Cannot Forgive Them, Al-Awda TV (PA) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11859 – Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Official Dyaa Terpstra In NJ Mosque 'Know Your Rights' Workshop: Do Not Speak To The FBI, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11858 – Professor Sami Al-Arian, Deported From The U.S. For Terror Links: Our Goal Is To Dismantle The State Of Israel; October 7 Gave Us Ideas On How This Can Be Done; Israeli Jews Can Go To Muslim Countries From Morocco To Indonesia, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11857 – Hamas TV Tours Supermarkets In The Gaza Strip; Shoppers: 'Everything Is Back To Normal', Stores Are Well Stocked, Prices Better Than Before The War, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11856 – Michigan Imam Hassan Qazwini In Dearborn Heights Friday Sermon: The Martyrdom Of Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah Is Fuel For The Resistance Against Tyrannical Israel; We Are Not Defeated; Thousands Will Join The Fight And Victory Will Follow, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11855 – Fatah Official In Syria Amer Issa: Palestinian Leadership Is Not Terminating 'Pay To Slay' Policy, Is Only Circumventing U.S. Pressure; Payments To Prisoners And Families Of 'Martyrs' Will Continue Via Alternative Methods, Al-Awda TV (PA) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11854 – Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun: Israel's Continued Presence In Lebanon Is Justified Until Hizbullah Surrenders Its Weapons; Hizbullah Should Finance Reconstruction – They Caused The Destruction, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11853 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Reaffirms 'Pay-To-Slay' Policy: If We Have Only A Single Penny Left, It Will Go To The Prisoners And The Martyrs – I Will Not Allow Any Reduction In Our Commitments To Them, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11852 – American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) Official Taher Herzallah In September 2023 Talk In Canadian Mosque: We Should Build Alliances With Anti-Zionist Jews And Call Them To Islam; Palestine Is Not Just A Liberation Project – It's A Dawah Project, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11851 – American Anti-Israel, Pro-Kremlin Activist And Influencer Jackson Hinkle Attends Nasrallah's Funeral, Gives Studio Interview To U.S. Designated Terrorist Hizbullah-Owned Al-Manar TV, Says He Moved To Russia For Fear Of Arrest In U.S., Al-Manar TV (Lebanon), Channel 3 (Iran), Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11850 – Hizbullah-Affiliated Academic Sadek Al-Naboulsi: Our Knives Are Not Broken – They Are Sharp And Can Wound The Enemy; Our Arm Can Still Reach Deep Into Israel And America, We Have Sufficient Means To Hurt Them, Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11849 – Deputy IRGC Commander-in-Chief General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi On President Trump: His Leadership Is Divine Retribution For America's Crimes And Injustices; In Iran, Leaders Are Chosen For Their Wisdom And Piety–While In The U.S., It's The Weakest, Most Corrupt Fool, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11848 – New York City Vigil For Slain Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah: Strike Tel-Aviv! Globalize The Intifada! Yemen Make Us Proud, Turn Another Ship Around! Nasrallah Was A Martyr, Guiding Light For Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, And Beyond, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11847 – Former University Of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian, Deported From U.S. Due To Terror Links, In May 2024 Video Address To University Of Chicago Anti-Israel Encampment: The Zionist Lobby Is Entrenched In America, Distorts Facts With This 'Terrorist Nonsense' – Expect Intimidation; This Did Not Start On October 7; Campuses Must Mobilize, Build This Movement Until Victory; Israel Is Shaken – Archival, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11846 – California Pakistani Islamic Scholar Qazi Fazlullah: The Jews Foster Enmity Towards Muslims Due To Their Lust For Power And Wealth; Jews And Christians Are Allies In Their Enmity To Muslims, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11845 – New York Mosque Lecture By Islamic Scholar Hassan Akbar: Muslims Will Become The Global Majority In 75 Years; Liberating Palestine Is Therefore Inevitable; This Is What They Fear – Archival, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11844 – Mohamed Hassaballa In New Jersey Friday Sermon: Christians Are Open Idolaters; The Mujahideen Fight On The Path Of Allah, Do Not Fear The Headlines, What Is Being Plotted Against Them, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11843 – Irving, Texas Mosque Lecture By Imam Raqeeb Abduljabbar: Until Palestine Is Free From The Jews, And America Is Free From Trump And Musk's Political Apartheid, The 'Indigenous Muslims' Of America Will Not Be Free; We Must Spread Islam In America, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11842 – At Chicago Conference, Hizb Ut-Tahrir Activist Dr. Ayman Hameed: Syria Should Declare 'Holy Jihad', A Plan Of Expansion – Immediate, Active, Practical Means To Free Al-Aqsa And Palestine; Afghanistan Made America Flee In Defeat, Showing What Is Possible, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11841 – Savanna, Georgia Sermon At Masjid Jihad: Project 2025 Political Agenda Is Part And Parcel Of The Christian Agenda; Muslims Must Protect Their Freedom Of Religion, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11840 – Hizbullah-Affiliated Academic Sadek Al-Naboulsi: We Have Not Been Defeated – The Killing Of Our Leaders Is Key To Greater Victory, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11839 – Chinese Professor Shen Yi's Bold Vision And Its Global Implications: DeepSeek, The Digital Silk Road, And China's AI Gambit, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11838 – IRGC Aerospace Force Commander General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh: We Will 'Definitely' Launch Another Missile Attack On Israel, Called 'True Promise III'; Cheap Missiles Are Enough To Hit American Targets Near Us, Of Which There Are Many, IRINN TV (Iran) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11837 Anti-Israel Protesters In Boro Park, Brooklyn Pray: Oh Allah, Annihilate The Criminal Zionists, Kill Them One By One, Do Not Leave A Single One Of Them, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11836 – Chinese Professor And Social Media Influencer Shen Yi: DeepSeek Combined With Huawei Will Form A Completely Closed Ecosystem Loop, Online Platforms
Memri
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Memri
The MEMRI Weekly: February 14-21, 2025
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. MEMRI REPORTS Inquiry and Analysis No. 1813 - The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 7, February 21, 2025 February 21, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11849 - Ahwazi State Executive Conference In Germany: 'A Significant Step Toward Internationalizing The Cause And Exposing Iran's Reality' Special Dispatch No. 11843 - Pakistani Editorial On Trump's Gaza Plan: 'Muslim Ummah Needs To Show Courage And Reject The Game Of Intimidation, Pressure, And Hypocrisy Though Mutual Unity' Special Dispatch No. 11842 - Pakistani Editorial On Trump's Gaza Plan: 'The Very Zionists Whom The Almighty Himself Has Condemned In... The Quran, And Against Whom The Muslim Ummah Has Been Commanded To Wage War, Cannot Be Expected To Bring Any Good' Special Dispatch No. 11841 - Afghan Writer Criticizes Trump's Gaza Plan: U.S. 'Is The Only Power On The World Stage And A Crazy Businessman Issues Nazi-Like Orders' Special Dispatch No. 11840 - Editorials In Pakistani Dailies React To Trump's Gaza Plan: 'Forced Displacement Would Be Equivalent To Genocide'; 'The Only Foreseeable Outcome Is More Conflict' Special Dispatch No. 11848 - Pakistani MP: Parts Of Balochistan Are Ready To Declare Liberation From Pakistan; 'If Districts In Balochistan Announce Liberation, The UN Will Accept Their Independence And Pakistan Will Fall' February 20, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11847 - Palestinian Articles: Al-Jazeera Is A Hamas Mouthpiece That Spreads The Movement's Lies February 20, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No 721 - How The Russian Economy Has Reacted To The 'Peace Talks' February 20, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1805 - Global Jihadi Threats: What Is On The Horizon In 2025?, February 19, 2025 MEMRI Daily Brief No. 720 - Qatar Seeks To Sweep Away Trump's Gaza Plan With So-Called Peace Plan, February 19, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1809 - Predictions For REMVE Extremism In 2025: Emerging Technology And Shifting Discourse Present New And Evolving Threats, February 19, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11846 - Iranian Interior Minister Iskander Momeni: '1.1 Million Afghan Refugees Have Been Sent Back To Afghanistan', February 19, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11845 - Criticism Of Hamas In Egyptian Media: It Brought Disaster Upon Gaza, Must Be Held To Account, February 19, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11831 - Pakistan's Former Ambassador To U.S. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi On Trump's Gaza Plan: 'The Extremist Christian-Zionist Crusader [Donald Trump] And The Israeli Mass Murderer [Benjamin Netanyahu] Feel Completely Secure And Unrestrained', February 19, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11844 - Another Qatari Regime Scandal In France: Qatari Official Investigated By French Authorities; Earlier, In 2016, Qatari Ambassador Had Allegedly Bribed A French Minister, February 18, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1812 - African Intellectuals On U.S. Foreign Aid Pause: 'Time To Break Free From Foreign Aid Dependency'; 'A Challenge And An Opportunity'; 'Relying On Aid From The West Limits Our Opportunities To Be Industrious And Creative', February 18, 2025 Special Dispatch No. 11839 - Member Of Egyptian Senate: Arab Countries Should Propose A New Peace Initiative, February 18, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1806 - A Review Of The Use Of Tunnels By Hamas, Hizbullah, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Ansar Allah (Houthis), And Other Jihadi Groups And Ramifications For U.S. National Security – With Foreword By General (Ret) Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., USMC, February 14, 2025 Inquiry and Analysis No. 1811 - The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 6, February 14, 2025, February 14, 2025 MEMRI TV MONITOR PROJECT MEMRI TV Clip No. 11838 – IRGC Aerospace Force Commander General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh: True Promise III Attack on Israel Will 'Definitely' Take Place; There Are Enough American Targets Around Us that Require Cheap Missiles, IRINN TV (Iran) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11837 – Anti-Israel Protesters in Boro Park, Brooklyn Pray: Oh Allah, Annihilate the Criminal Zionists, Kill Them One by One, Do Not Leave a Single One of Them, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11836 – Chinese Professor and Social Influencer Shen Yi: DeepSeek Combined with Huawei Will Form a Completely Closed Ecosystem Loop, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11835 – California Islamic Scholar Iyad Hilal: Europeans Should Facilitate 'Return Of Jews Migrants' To Europe – They Created This Crisis; Otherwise, Bloodshed Will Continue Beyond Gaza, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11834 – Iranian Student In China: Deepseek Has Shaken The U.S., Even Those Asleep In The Western Media's 'Information Cocoon' Will Eventually Realize China Will Rule The Future World, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11833 – Former Hizbullah TV Correspondent In Iran Mohammad Shamas: Iran Could Produce A Nuclear Weapon In Two Weeks If Faced With Existential Danger, Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11832 – Chinese Commentator Da Liu: DeepSeek Is Attacking The Core Of America's Technological Hegemony, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11831 – PLO Official Dr. Ahmad Majdalani: Hamas Dragged The Palestinians Into A New Nakba; This Is No Victory; One More Such 'Victory' And No Palestinians Will Be Left In Gaza, Palestinian Authority TV MEMRI TV Clip No. 11830 – Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: We Have The Opportunity To Expand The 'Resistance Camp'; Arabs Must Break Free From Western Hegemony, We Can Slap Israel Anytime, Hamas Proved This October 7, Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11829 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Rejects Trump's Gaza Relocation Plan: Palestinians Should Be Allowed To Return To The Cities And Villages They Were Driven Out Of During The Nakba, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11828 – Palestinian Children Brandish Weapons, Salute Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades During Hamas Hostage Release Ceremony, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11827 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Visits Weapon Exhibition, Inspects Upgraded Khorramshahr Missile Warhead, Unmanned Submarines That Launch UAVs, And Other Achievements Of Iran's Military Industries, Channel 1 (Iran) MEMRI TV Clip No. 11826 – Russian Philosopher Aleksandr Dugin: Islamic World's Response To The Gaza War Was Pitiful And Disgusting; It Was A Defeat And We Should Not Call It Victory; Islam Will Become A Real Global Power When It Can Destroy Israel, Online Platforms MEMRI TV Clip No. 11825 – Michigan Islamic Scholar Ahmad Musa Jibril: Imams Who Support Trump Are 'True Enemies'; He Sought Support From Them Like A Fly Searching For Waste, Then Appointed Zionists To His Cabinet Instead, Online Platforms
Memri
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Memri
The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 7, February 21, 2025
1. In 2017, Avenue Strategies, a Qatari lobbying group in the U.S., approached former Brig.-Gen. Shimon Shapira, former Military Secretary to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (and, until December 2016, Israeli Foreign Ministry chief of staff under Netanyahu's previous tenure as prime minister and foreign minister), at a time when U.S. legislation to sanction Qatar for sponsoring terrorism was in the works. According to a February 19, 2025 report in The Marker as well as documents submitted by the group in the U.S., Shapira wrote that "Qatar has not delivered weapons to Hamas." As a result of his letter, the legislation effort did not continue. The Prime Minister's Office has not commented on this report. This is another addition to the information surfacing in recent weeks regarding Netanyahu advisors' involvement in lobbying operations for Qatar. 2. A MEMRI report focused on a similar case in the U.S.: Qatar hired a former CIA official to spy on anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Tom Cotton, and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, as well as former Rep. Ed Royce – see MEMRI Daily Brief No. 565, Qatari Ambassador To U.S. Was Allegedly Involved In Bribing A French Minister, Spying On U.S. Lawmakers, January 22, 2024. 3. See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 720, Qatar Seeks To Sweep Away Trump's Gaza Plan With So-Called Peace Plan, by Yigal Carmon, February 19, 2025. 4. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11844, Another Qatari Regime Scandal In France: Qatari Official Investigated By French Authorities; Earlier, In 2016, Qatari Ambassador Had Allegedly Bribed A French Minister, February 18, 2025. 5. See MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis No. 1810, The National Conference For Palestine – A Qatari Initiative For Integrating The Hamas Terror Organization Into The PLO, by S. Schneidmann, L. Alon, and H. Varulkar, February 13, 2025. 6. On February 16, 2025, Rabbi Pini Dunner of the Beverly Hills Synagogue in California led Jewish activists in a protest outside the Bel Air home of former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (HBJ), a member of the Qatari royal family, over his close ties to Hamas. For a video of the protests, see Rabbi Dunner's X post.[1] *Yigal Carmon is President and Founder of MEMRI.
Memri
07-02-2025
- Politics
- Memri
The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 5, February 7, 2025
1. U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) have demanded a report on the operational value of the Al-Udeid Air Base southwest of Doha, Qatar: "Qatar has been housing Hamas and Taliban leadership for years, all while the United States continues to allow Qatar the privilege of hosting our nation's largest airbase (Al-Udeid) in the Middle East," said Ogles, adding: "Thousands of our brave Servicemembers serve at Al-Udeid, and we have an obligation to ensure our nation's military installations are in the hands of trustworthy allies - not bankrollers of terrorist organizations." 2. Al-Jazeera:[1] The Palestinian Authority announced that it had issued instructions to banks in the West Bank not to transfer salaries to Al-Jazeera employees – Ultrapal, February 4, 2025; February 5, 2025. Video: "Why 30 Countries Banned This Media" – Visegrad24, February 1, 2025 3. The Federalist Exclusive: "Qatar's Influence Network In American Public Schools Has Unwitting Teachers Advancing Its Propaganda" – January 30, 2025 Source: Qatar Foundation International, 4. "CNN Expands Middle East Footprint With New Hub in Qatar" – February 2, 2025 5. "U.S. Space Forces – Central Command To Open Campus At Qatari Air Base" – January 28, 2025 Note: A forthcoming MEMRI Daily Brief will focus on the U.S. Air Force doubling down on cooperation with Qatar vis-à-vis Al-Udeid air base despite U.S. lawmakers' demand for transparency. 6. "Watchdog Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Qatar's Billions In University Funding" – February 3, 2025 *Yigal Carmon is President and Founder of MEMRI.
