… This country doesn’t even have an army.
Author: Dr. Taysir Abdullah
Describing the complete humiliation of Qatar by Israel in the eyes of Arabs is difficult. Dr. Taysir Abdullah, an opponent of Hamas, mentions a major shift in the perception of Qatar in the Arab world following the strike on Hamas leaders in Doha — regardless of the outcomes:
Today in the cafe, I watched Al Jazeera.
I swear to God, I felt sad for what happened to Qatar.
Lord, how pathetic this country has become — or perhaps we are naive and forgive too quickly.
It is truly pitiful: it believed it was a key country in the region, capable of making decisions. But after the first slap from the occupiers, it did not know what to do, became confused, and lost its balance.
All the weapons on which trillions were spent turned out to be useless and worthless. Even its radars could not detect the occupiers’ aircraft.
And America betrayed it, saying that the radars at Al Udeid Air Base were pointed the other way — as if dealing with small children, underestimating them.
This country has no army. And even if it thinks of responding with a missile, the occupier would wipe it off the face of the earth.
So there will be no military response: it has no capabilities.
Perhaps it is looking for someone to comfort it and stand by its side!
But all its neighbors hate it. In these difficult days, it has no friends left. Everyone comes, pretending to support it, but in their hearts, they wish for its destruction and disappearance from the region. Now it asks countries to attend a meeting in Doha to support it, while fully aware of what they really feel.
Tonight, it turned to the Security Council, but the statement issued there was weak, futile, and disappointing — they did not even dare to call Israel the aggressor.
It tried to appeal to the United States, and after trillions of dollars given to Trump, it described its relationship with the U.S. as betrayal. But America merely tried to calm its anger, like a stubborn child, without ever condemning Israel.
Qatar is now lost, and no one defends it. It turned out to be a puffed-up peacock on a mountain of illusions, which proved useless in the moment of truth. The only thing it has left is the drumming noise in Al Jazeera studios — its only “army”: those opportunistic analysts who praise its “wise and cautious” policies while simultaneously condemning Israeli terrorism.
Then it uses reports of the slaughter carried out by occupiers in Gaza as mournful evidence that Netanyahu, who attacked Doha, is a criminal deserving international arrest.
Whenever an occupier attacks any Arab country, I feel pain. But Qatar, in particular, needed such a slap a long time ago — to awaken from its illusions and return to the ground after imagining itself sitting in a tower of ivory, controlling the fate of Arab countries. With money and media, it thought it could overthrow regimes, raise some to the skies, and plunge others into the abyss.
Qatar needed someone to strike its nervous system and dunk its head in the dirt — to remind it that it is just a small emirate, deceived by its own self-importance, and that in the moment of truth, it is worth nothing.
It needed to be burned by fire to reconsider its attitude toward its neighbors, for sometimes a burn is the only cure.
Qatar was the first Gulf country to establish trade relations with Israel and officially opened Israel’s trade office in Doha.
