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Georgelementaltoday at 4:43 AM3 repliesview on HN

> Qatar lies

Netanyahu said that "Qatar is not an enemy country". Is he wrong about that? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-14/ty-article/.p...


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bawolfftoday at 4:55 AM

I mean, they did bomb them. you don't do that to friends.

I doubt there are any true friends in the middle east, just temporary allies of convinence.

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codingisfreedomtoday at 4:54 AM

I don’t support Netanyahu, and so does close to 50% of Israelis.

Qatar is spreading fake information and is funding Hamas as well as anti-Israel classes in major US colleges.

If you don’t trust Netanyahu then you should disregard the link you shared as well and that just strengthens my point.

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hunterpaynetoday at 4:54 AM

Its a messy situation. Qatar hosted HAMAS's bot farms and leadership until 2024 (or 2025, I don't remember) when Israel destroyed it with literal bombs dropped by a F-35I. That happened quite near to both a Qatari military base and a US military base. That doesn't happen unless the Qatari military/government gave approval. I'm no expert in Qatari politics but I would guess that there are significant support for HAMAS in the population. The politicians probably wanted HAMAS leadership and IW operations out of their country, but they also wanted plausible deniability with their own population. So given all of that and assuming there are things happening we don't understand, is Qatar an enemy of Israel? Publicly the answer is no. But its probably also dependent on their respective interests and situationally independent.