-By Latheef Farook
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Sep.2025, 9.30 PM) On Tuesday 9 September 2025 Israel, the fascist settler colonial killing machine, planted by US-UK and Europe on Palestinian lands to destabilise the Muslim Middle East, attacked Qatar which serves as host to the largest US military base in the region.
US President Donald Trump –waging war against Islam and Muslims and so far spent US dollar 22 billion of American tax payers money to slaughter Palestinians and destroy Gaza to build his dream Riviera of the Middle East in Gaza- “blessed” Israel’s attack on Qatar which targeted senior Hamas officials, US and regional officials have told Middle East Eye.
The irony cuts deeper still. The men bombed in Doha were not fighters but negotiators - delegates present because Washington asked Qatar to host them. The Hamas officials include Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Meshal, Zaher Jabarin and other senior Hamas officials survived the attack which killed Hayya’s son, Hammam al-Hayya, and his office director, Jihad Lubbad, sources told MEE. Several others were wounded.
This attack was shocking because only a few months ago Qatar rolled out legendary red carpet to receive Trump besides pledging to invest 1.3 trillion dollar in the U.S which was fully supporting genocide in Gaza. Demonstrating the servility Qatar’s royal family gifted President Trump $400 million, underscoring the depth of its strategic ties with Washington
According to reports eight Israeli F-15 fighter jets and four F-35s, flew over Jordan and Saudi Arabia air space .However , as expected,both countries denied these reports .
Columnist Ziyad Motala said the only peace Israel desires is the entire piece of land from the river to the sea free of Arabs and Palestinians.
The sharper lesson, however, is not for Qatar. It is for Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. Their rulers have chosen the most humiliating course in international politics: collaboration with an apartheid regime while congratulating themselves as statesmen. They have deluded themselves that obeisance to Tel Aviv and Washington would purchase immunity. They paraded their compliance as wisdom. They mistake subservience for security.
Trump pocketed their cash. Israel will pocket their obedience. What remains in their hands is nothing but vulnerability.
Israel is an apartheid genocidal state that has never respected international law.The Gulf monarchs, who imagine themselves indispensable, are in truth nothing more than vassals renting their survival at Israel’s pleasure. Their loyalty is not insurance. It is a leash.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE may believe their treasuries and vanity projects can shield them from the fate of others. They may believe that silence on Gaza and complicity in Israel’s crimes will purchase peace for themselves. Israel’s bombs over Doha prove otherwise. Loyalty is no shield. Collaboration is no sanctuary. Servility is no strategy.
They have not merely mocked the Palestinians. They have green-lighted Israel’s attacks, provided logistical support, and enabled the machinery of occupation in the hope that complicity would buy them relevance. They mistake oppression for sophistication. What they have purchased is not modernity but moral bankruptcy.
Their glossy slogans of “Vision 2030” and other schemes of manufactured modernisation are fig leaves. Skyscrapers cannot disguise servility. Tourist pavilions cannot conceal repression. The true national policy of these rulers is submission. Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed should take note. History does not remember vassals as reformers. It remembers them as clients, and then as casualties.said one columnist.
Columnist Soumaya Ghannoushi said bombing Qatar is a thunderclap that should rattle every palace, every ministry and every street in the Arab world. It was a strike on the very idea that any Arab capital is safe. Israel pockets Arab money with one hand and burns Arab soil with the other. Plunder their wealth, unleash the warplanes - that is the new order.
In mere weeks, Israel has bombed Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran. Last year, it also bombed Iraq. And it struck two ships from the Sumud flotilla in Tunis over the past two days. Israel is establishing a new order: every Arab land, water and sky is fair game if it wills it. International law is ashes - the only law is brute force.
Amir Ohana, speaker of the Knesset, made it explicit after the Doha attack: "This is a message to the entire Middle East." The ICC Indicted war criminal Netanyahu said he feels "very much" committed to the expansionist vision of "Greater Israel", which includes parts of Palestine and several Arab states.
This doctrine of impunity is not improvised, but follows the blueprint of the 1982 Yinon Plan which called for the fragmentation of Arab states into sectarian enclaves: Iraq splintered into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish entities; Syria divided into Alawite, Druze and Sunni fiefdoms; Egypt weakened to the point where the Sinai could be reoccupied; Palestinians transferred across the Jordan River.
In one interview, Israeli politician Avi Lipkin predicts that Israel's borders will extend "from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia", which he called the "Great Desert", and "from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates".
He adds: "And who's on the other side of the Euphrates? The Kurds, and the Kurds are friends. So, we have the Mediterranean behind us and the Kurds in front of us…Lebanon, which really needs the umbrella of protection of Israel, and then we're going to take, I believe, we're going to take Mecca, Medina and Mount Sinai, and purify those places."
Zionist writers openly fantasise about Israel's borders stretching to Mecca and Medina, and books like Return to Mecca lay out biblical blueprints for conquest.
The ultimate goal was always clear: to dissolve Arab power into fragments so Israel could reign supreme. Look around: Syria reduced to shards, Iraq carved up, Yemen shattered, Gaza besieged, Lebanon bleeding. The Yinon map has become our present.
Arab regimes bear heavy responsibility for enabling this expansionist, supremacist project.
Decade after decade, they signed away dignity under the illusion that appeasement would bring security: Camp David, Oslo Accords, Wadi Araba, and the Abraham Accords. The deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's maxim stands vindicated: "Those who are covered by America are left naked."
Published by Oded Yinon in the journal Kivunim and translated by late Israeli professor Israel Shahak, the plan called for the fragmentation of Arab states into sectarian enclaves: Iraq splintered into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish entities; Syria divided into Alawite, Druze and Sunni fiefdoms; Egypt weakened to the point where the Sinai could be reoccupied; Palestinians transferred across the Jordan River.
No one expects Arab states to declare war on Israel, but they could at least impose sanctions, boycotts, airspace closures and trade freezes. Instead, they jail protesters, ban demonstrations and silence solidarity.
Yet silence will not last forever. The Arab people are watching. They see Palestinians enduring bombs and famine, and global solidarity rising from London to Cape Town, Jakarta to New York. They ask why their rulers do nothing. Such inspiration will break into the streets, seas and skies. Regimes still have time to choose - to abandon the illusion that normalisation with a fascist, expansionist Israel will save them, and instead build collective defence with allies.
Unless Arab states recognise Israel - not Iran or anyone else - as the principal threat to their survival, they will remain exposed and humiliated.
The promise of American protection lies in ruins. For decades, Gulf rulers believed oil, bases and investments could buy security. Trump and Netanyahu have shattered that illusion. In today's Middle East, the US and Israel are one - the patron and the executioner.
And together, they have delivered the only message that matters: no one is safe - not Gaza, not Doha or Tunis.
Columnist Abdullah Al-Arian said that as one regime after another lined up to embrace the settler colony, it became clear for all to see that the traditional Arab position that normalisation would not occur until Palestinian self-determination was achieved represented nothing more than empty words from a bygone era.
The fact of the matter is that the gap between Arab rulers and their populations has never been wider, a situation that is clearly unsustainable in the long term.
(Photo - The building bombed by Israel in Doha where Hamas team met to hold peace talks.)
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