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  • Khaled Abu Toameh: Qatar Must Not Be Allowed to Play Any Role in Gaza
  • Lawrence Kadish: A Salute to Our Firefighters and Police: They Put Their Lives on the Line Every Day to Protect Us

Qatar Must Not Be Allowed to Play Any Role in Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 3, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Allowing Qatar to be part of an Arab consortium that would replace Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip is essentially placing the alpha-fox in charge of the henhouse.

  • Al-Jazeera, Qatar's flagship media network, operates around the clock as a propaganda outlet in the service of Hamas.

  • After America's attack on Iran's nuclear sites on June 22, journalists and those who shape public opinion in Qatar condemned the US and President Donald J. Trump. Al-Jazeera presenters and columnists for Qatar's government newspapers took to social media to slam the US and Trump, calling him a "brazen liar", "the leader of a modern crusade", and a "war criminal"...

  • "... Israel must be destroyed and eliminated and must disappear. This should be a strategic Arab doctrine. [Operation] Al-Aqsa Flood showed us that the Israelis have no connection to the land...." — Qatari General (ret.) Mubarak Al-Khayreen, X.com, June 22, 2025.

  • In 2017, [Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates] severed ties with Qatar and imposed a sea, land and air blockade on it. They accused Qatar of supporting various terrorist groups and extremist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and demanded the closure of Al-Jazeera.

  • Qatar has never abandoned its goal of promoting the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates, including Hamas. Anyone who watches Al-Jazeera (in Arabic) can see that the Gulf state and its media outlets are fully mobilized in favor of Islamist Jihadis engaged in terrorism against Israel and the West.

  • Qatar cannot be allowed to play any role in the administration of the Gaza Strip.

Allowing Qatar to be part of an Arab consortium that would replace Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip is essentially placing the alpha-fox in charge of the henhouse. Pictured: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal meets with Qatar's then Crown Prince (today's Emir) Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan on January 29, 2012. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images)

According to a recent report, the Trump administration is floating the idea of having four Arab states administer the Gaza Strip as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas. On June 26, the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported:

"Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks, ending conditions will encompass four Arab nations (including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates) to administer the Gaza Strip, replacing the murderous Hamas terrorist organization."

Although the newspaper did not name the two other Arab countries that would take part in administering the Gaza Strip, there is speculation in the Arab world that one of them is Qatar, which has expressed readiness to help rebuild Gaza after the Hamas-Israel war ends.

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A Salute to Our Firefighters and Police: They Put Their Lives on the Line Every Day to Protect Us

by Lawrence Kadish  •  July 3, 2025 at 4:00 am

(Illustrative image by iStock/Getty Images)

For the second time is as many weeks, we have witnessed unspeakable violence in our nation.

Last weekend, residents of the small community of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho lined a highway to honor two firefighters shot to death in an ambush. These professionals were responding to a blaze that police believe was deliberately set for the specific purpose of luring, then murdering, firefighters.

Bruce Mattare, a commissioner for Coeur d'Alene's Kootenai County, told CNN:

"The people we lost were absolutely top-notch professionals. It's unheard of for something like this to happen in this community. People are still trying to process exactly what happened."

Aren't we all.

Police still have not suggested a motive for the deadly ambush but, at the end of the day, it does not matter. The murders of first responders are incomprehensible on any level.

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