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From Gaza to Doha: Messages and Losses

Friday, September 12


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There was much talk, controversy and condemnation last Tuesday after the Zionist entity targeted leaders of the Hamas movement in the Katara Cultural District in the Qatari capital, Doha, with a series of explosions. The occupation launched the operation against the movement’s negotiating delegation, in an operation that the occupation army said, in a statement, was against the leaders responsible for the movement’s activities over the years, and bear direct responsibility for the events of October 7, and the management of military operations against Israel. Meanwhile, the American response to this strike and operation was laughable, which is the least that can be described, in light of Donald Trump’s attempt to hold the stick in the middle, and his statement that he was not happy with the way the entity carried out its attack, and that he is never surprised when it comes to the Middle East.

From this Middle Eastern thread, we must take a serious stand and comprehensive reading of the situation, far from regional and international condemnations, the necessity of which we do not underestimate, but the matter requires a close look, and the pursuit of new arrangements according to the development of events, not only after October 7 and the wide opening of the field of dirty unilateral war in the Palestinian territories, and not in challenging international laws and norms, but also directing blame at the International Criminal Court, which has acknowledged and ruled that the Prime Minister of the entity, Netanyahu, and his military aides are war criminals who must be pursued, and not also in the anger of the peoples of the world and their pressure on their governments to stop the war that killed nearly seventy thousand martyrs and destroyed the landmarks and infrastructure of Gaza, and not also by taking the decision to occupy all of Gaza and annex more Palestinian lands and force the population to displacement, but all of that at once, arriving at this strike, which may not be the last outside the usual paths, which contain messages, the first, oldest, and most constant of which is that the occupying entity is not and is not Washington’s long arm in the region. No one will attempt to cut off this arm, as long as America has clearly declared, across all its positions, that it will remain an eternal ally of the occupying entity, even if it goes so far as to strike at its allies and friends who are engaged in negotiations to stop the war and establish peace. There is no longer any weight for the national sovereignty of states or geographical borders, knowing that this violation amounts to an assault on the prestige of all Arab states, and even establishes a dangerous precedent that Arab national security has become permissible. Therefore, I pointed out the need for widespread condemnations and strongly worded statements, which confirm the support of Doha’s full right in all the measures it takes, without any limits.

Here, it is worth noting that this blow and the development in the course of events must represent a significant indicator towards Arab solidarity and alliance at further levels, especially in re-evaluating relations with Washington. Today, not tomorrow, but now, the usual political table must be turned upside down and reshaped according to unified visions of Arab and regional powers, making the following results in the equation of gain and loss in the interest of the region, and against the occupying entity that has tried to present itself to the world as a rogue entity striking deep into the Arab world without regard for the sovereignty of states. The natural result will be the undermining of any diplomatic relations or alliances that were being built with it, even in secret, because the equation has now become clear that it has changed, and the issue is no longer a border conflict with the Palestinians, but now affects a state that Washington considers a basic partner in stability that America does not seek as much as it seeks to seize resources, regardless of the sacrifices, even with regard to partners.

Therefore, the current American position, given the strategic alliance with the Arab state of Qatar, which includes the most important American base in the East, as well as the historical partnership and total bias towards the occupying entity, this great contradiction and imbalance has made American policy a naked model in the showcases of international politics. Just as the Palestinians cannot find shelters to protect themselves from the successive bombing and targeting, Trump’s Washington must not find a shelter that protects it from exposing its shame, and work hard to completely recalculate with it, and drop this foolish vision of it being a guarantor of stability in any form, and rely on the pace of the entity’s expansion in its strikes, whether inside Palestine or outside the borders, as it indicates two meanings that are not different: complete bias towards the entity at every step, as well as the loss of control over the reckless ally with an American green light, which must completely end the idea of marketing America as a power capable or seeking to impose order, and then continue to open the door for other international players, such as China and Russia, to intervene in the vacuum and work to present more balanced, wise and rational alternatives in Dealing with the area.

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