Qatar Accuses Israel of ‘Genocide.’ Netanyahu Fires Back

After Qatar accused Israel of committing a “genocidal war” in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back, “The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism. Israel will win this just war with just means.”

The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism. Israel will win this just war with just means.

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 3, 2025

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, echoed, “We made a terrible mistake to negotiate with Qatar and to bring Qatar as negotiators. Qatar is an enemy and a core part of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology.”

Netanyahu’s remarks prompted the official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, — the same country that hosted the leaders of Hamas as they celebrated the terrorist organization massacre over 1200 Israeli on October 7, 2023, the same government that condemned Israel the day of the massacre and the same government that has reportedly funded Hamas with $1.5 billion over the last ten years— to call the remarks “inflammatory,” adding that Qatar stands “with oppressed peoples, defending the rights of civilians regardless of background, and upholding international law without selectivity or exception,” and concluding that Qatar wants “the establishment of an independent state along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital” for the Palestinians.

The Qatari government’s ties to terrorists go back decades; as far back as February 2003, less than 17 months after the 9/11 attacks in which Al Qaeda terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans, ABC News reported, in a story titled “Qatari Royal Family Linked to Al Qaeda,” that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, was aided in his escape from the CIA and FBI by a member of the Qatari royal family:  “American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani,” ABC News noted.

“After the Sept. 11 attacks, another senior Qaeda operative, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who may have been the principal planner of the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, was said by Saudi intelligence officials to have spent two weeks in late 2001 hiding in Qatar, with the help of prominent patrons, after he escaped from Kuwait,” The New York Times admitted in 2003.

“Two of al-Qaeda’s most senior financiers are living with impunity in Qatar despite being on a worldwide terrorism blacklist, the American official in charge of sanctions has disclosed,” The Telegraph reported in 2014.

Qatar also owns the Al-Jazeera network, which featured Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif’s call to arms after the October 7 attack and also featured Ismail Haniyeh crowing about Hamas’s “great triumph” after the attacks.