Qatar is Attempting to Buy the Trump Administration’s Influence over Israel
Is President Trump’s “Middle East envoy” bought by Qatar?
Jews across the world were shocked when it was made clear that President-elect Trump, through his “Middle East envoy” Steve Witkoff, had strong-armed Israel into accepting the Biden administration’s disastrous ceasefire deal with Hamas. Witkoff even reportedly ordered Netanyahu (with terse vulgarity) to accept the deal immediately, and not take a pause for Shabbat.
As JNS host Caroline Glick reveals in two major video interviews (above and below), and Rabbi Pesach Wolicki writes at Israel 365, Witkoff is a paid-for operative of the terrorist state of Qatar.
In addition to having said on Fox News that the Hamas-sponsoring prime minister of Qatar was “doing God’s work” in facilitating the deal, as Wolicki writes, “The damning evidence begins with a real estate deal gone wrong. In 2013, Witkoff, a New York real estate investor, purchased the prestigious Park Lane Hotel with Malaysian businessman Jho Low for $654 million. When their luxury apartment conversion plans collapsed and Low was exposed for embezzling billions from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, Witkoff found himself trapped in a financial quagmire.”
After Low ran away to Cyprus, Qatar came “to the rescue in August 2023 with a $623 million bailout. The timing couldn’t be more suspect — just as Trump’s campaign was gaining momentum, Qatar shrewdly purchased not just a hotel, but influence within Trump’s inner circle. Their investment has paid off handsomely, as Witkoff’s appointment as special envoy has advanced Qatar’s agenda of preserving Hamas’s iron grip on Gaza.”
Qatar is Iran’s main beach head of influence in the Sunni Arab world, using its titanic wealth not only to fund Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood but to tempt weak, greedy Westerners into advancing its projects.
Given President Trump’s historical support for Israel, the views of his cabinet, and his heartening Inauguration Day executive orders — which include empowering ICE to deport anti-Semitic foreign students — it is unwise to panic or rage; but is wise to be stern and unsettled.
It was unacceptable for the United States to treat Israel in this way during the previous administration, and Trump’s accession makes no difference to that standard. So, too, Qatar, the leading Sunni state sponsor of worldwide jihad, must only be sanctioned, punished, marginalized, humiliated, and denounced — certainly when it paid Hamas to kidnap the Israeli hostages in the first place.
Ironically, as Yigal Carmon, director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), tells Caroline Glick (below), Witkoff “is absolutely right” that Qatar is “‘doing God’s work’ — with one change. Instead of ‘God’s work,’ it’s ‘Allah’s work.’”
