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The West’s Favorite Frenemy: Qatar’s Silent War on Stability

The West’s Favorite Frenemy: Qatar’s Silent War on Stability

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Scott Hughes
Apr 18, 2025
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While the world brands Qatar as a peace broker and Western partner, its record tells a different story: terror financing, media manipulation, and influence campaigns that buy silence from the very democracies it undermines. Tonight we expose how Qatar plays every side — and why leaders like Netanyahu, Biden, and others were happy to let them.

The West’s Favorite Frenemy: Qatar’s Silent War on Stability

Qatar plays the cleanest game in the dirtiest region.
Publicly: a U.S. military partner, peace negotiator, and charitable donor.
Privately: the financial godfather of the world’s most volatile Islamist movements.

That’s not a contradiction.
That’s the strategy.

For decades, Qatar has perfected the art of proxy chaos — bankrolling extremists while maintaining polished diplomatic ties with Western capitals, think tanks, and universities. And in the case of Israel, it helped bankroll Hamas under the nose — and often with the blessing — of the very government those rockets were targeting.

The receipts are undeniable. The silence is political.

This is the part of the Qatargate scandal the media really doesn’t want to touch:
It doesn’t stop with Netanyahu.

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