Qatargate

While Israel follows the details of the police investigation into the Qatargate affair—who received bribes, how they received them, and what was given in return—we must also see the bigger picture. What, broadly speaking, does Qatar gain from Israel's current policy?

To understand this, we need to know what Qatar actually wants and what drives its global policy dimensions.

Well, Qatar is concerned with two global issues. First, Qatar wants to establish the Muslim Brotherhood's control over the world, atartinf with the Middle East. Second, Qatar wants to advance its interests as a natural gas superpower from the seemingly inexhaustible reserves in the Arabian Gulf, which it shares with Iran.

These two interests intersect when the potential overthrow of governments in Saudi Arabia and Jordan could connect Qatar to Syria, which has already fallen into its hands, and from there to Turkey—and on to Europe.

Qatar's main incitement tool for fomenting Muslim Brotherhood revolutions in the Arab world is the powerful Al Jazeera TV station. From Qatar's perspective, Israel's role is to provide horrific images from Gaza to the Arab world and the world at large, stirring up antisemitism globally and anti-Israeli sentiment in Arab streets, to halt normalization processes as part of advancing the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda in Arab societies.

From this, one might ask whether the current intensification of war in Gaza is designed to promote support for Hamas in Arab streets, as a renewed undermining tool against Arab regimes that Qatar wants to topple, in order to advance its gas pipeline project from Qatar to Turkey, and from there to Europe?

Anyone following the horrific images from Gaza can gauge the extent of damage they cause to Israel. The question we cannot answer is whether Israel is a "useful idiot" in this matter—meaning it doesn't understand what it's doing—or if there's something "unthinkable" at play.

One misconception is that Qatar is concerned with the Palestinian issue. It absolutely is not. In none of its demands from Israel does Qatar raise the claim for a Palestinian state. The reason is that Qatar is driven by the Muslim Brotherhood's vision of uniting the Arab world into one large Islamic caliphate. Establishing another Arab state on top of existing ones pushes this vision further away. Khaled Mashal is tasked with implementing this caliphate vision—for example, immediately after the victory of President Mohamed Morsi, Qatar's candidate, he met with Khaled Mashal in Cairo, and Ismail Haniyeh said in Gaza that they discussed the caliphate (and not a Palestinian state).

Khaled Mashal, following the victory of his ally in Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is no longer just a "Hamas leader" but a Muslim Brotherhood leading figure tasked by the Emir of Qatar with the project of subversion against Arab states.

The Palestinian issue is merely a tool to display their victimhood in the Arab world through Al Jazeera screens, with images that Israel generously provides. I'm not claiming Israel does this consciously, but these actions serve Qatar's interests in the region and the world.

Qatar's plans for gas pipelines to Turkey conflict with the official U.S. plans to create an economic connection from India through the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel. In other words, through its relationship with Qatar, Israel is undermining a first-rate economic interest of both itself and the United States, especially since Iran is a silent partner in the gas connection between Qatar and Turkey.

From this, we can understand why Qatar is interested in Ben Gvir, as he raises awareness for recruiting an "all-Islamic Hilal crusade" to liberate Al-Aqsa, which is Erdogan's battle cry, and undermines the Hashemite legitimacy with its aspirations and prestige as the guardian of Islam's holy sites in al-Aqsa.

Smotrich's” decisive plan”, currently accelerating in the West Bank, also provides Al Jazeera with excellent quality clips that complement the harsh images from Gaza. Qatar doesn't care about Palestinians. It only cares about the excellent raw material they provide for Al Jazeera.

Next month, President Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, and likely Qatar as well. From Witkoff's interviews, we learned that the United States is interested in Saudi Arabia, not Qatar, but wants to convince Qatar to join the Abraham Accords and abandon the Muslim Brotherhood. I don't believe this will happen. Qatar will find a way to say yes to Trump but will dodge.

Trump wants to invite Bibi to Washington to coordinate approaches, but Bibi is trying to avoid it ("he has a trial").

What's more important for Israel than disconnecting Qatar from the Brotherhood is disconnecting Qatar from us, to free ourselves to do what's important for us and not for the Muslim Brotherhood.