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Hamas Benefactor Qatar Continues to Teach Hate
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Unlike Saudi Arabia, who continues to reform its textbooks in the wake of the Abraham Accords, Qatar is not substantively changing teachings that continue to: be anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-polytheistic; undermine Jewish ties and claims to Israel; and glorify jihad. According to a recent report of 55 Qatari textbooks from 2023-2024, key aspects include:
Anti-Semitic references. Passages include: teaching students to avoid “resembling Jews”; insinuations that Jews “have been invited to Islam and rejected it,” and that Jews “…invent lies about Allah when being invited to Islam”; references that Allah punished “Moses’ nation” for rejecting him; and vague references of “Hitler’s racist ideas,” while failing to mention the Holocaust and the anti-Semitism of Nazism when teaching about World War II.
Additional bigotry towards non-Muslims. Passages include: “Allah exposed the infidels to the Hellfire”; Christianity and Judaism “have been corrupted” while being infused with polytheism, polytheism is “ignorance” and “false”; polytheism is “the greatest sin”; and polytheism “wrongs the soul.”
Undermining Jewish ties and claims to Israel. Passages include: that Jews “fled” Palestine during the Roman invasion and therefore “their connection to Palestine was severed”; that the Arabs “have the best claim” to Palestine; that “the hearts of Christians and Muslims are attached to the land of Palestine” while omitting any mention of Jews, that Palestine has “mosques and churches embracing each other” while omitting any mention of synagogues; referencing the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as sites in Jerusalem while not mentioning the Western Wall and other Jewish sites; and that the ancient Canaanites were “Arabs,” and “an Arab tribe” who “originated in the Arabian peninsula.”
Additional passages include: teaching students to “not conced[e] on any part of Palestine, for it is an Arab, Islamic land”; opposing “normalization [and its various forms” of relations with Israel; opposing Israel’s efforts to “Judaize” the land; claiming that Israel is deliberately trying to expel Palestinians from the land and obliterate [its] Arab and Islamic identity”; claiming that Israel is an “occupation,” “Zionist state” and “Israeli entity”; claiming that Israelis are “the oppressors” and “the butchers”; showing Israel on maps as “Palestine” or “Occupied Palestine”; referring to Hamas leaders as “leaders of the Palestinian national action”; and claiming that the 1929 Arab riots in the British mandate of Palestine were targeting “Zionist gangs” [when both Zionist and non-Zionist Jews were indiscriminately targeted].
Praise for Jihad. Passages include: praise of classical Islamic figure Nusaybah bint Ka‘bin that she raised her children “to love jihad”; glorification of Islamic figure Ali bin Abu Talib for killing polytheists and Jews; and teaching that Allah loves jihad warriors.
By not being in the Abraham Accords, Qatar has been able to continue to propagate hatred, while Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco have made significant reforms. The Biden administration should pressure Qatar to kick Hamas out of its country, and otherwise reduce its presence in and ties to Qatar unless the country implements true reforms towards its hateful education.
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What would a new Trump administration mean for the Middle East? Expect the following:
Increased Pressure on Iran and its Proxies
Brian Hook, Trump’s former special envoy to Iran who is believed to be leading Trump’s transition team for the State Department, stated that the new Trump administration would seek to “…isolate Iran diplomatically and weaken them economically, so that they can’t fund all of the violence…” coming from Iran’s proxies, “…all of whom destabilize Israel and our Gulf partners.” This approach contrasts with the Biden-Harris administration, who engaged the Islamic Republic diplomatically and economically, and even removed the Houthis from the Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity list from February 2021 through January 2024. That being said, Hook also stated that the new Trump administration would have “no interest in regime change” in Iran, and that decisions about the future of Iran lies with its people.
The Trump administration may green light an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. GOP spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko refused to say whether President-elect Trump would approve of Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, stating that Trump should speak for himself on this issue and will do so when he assumes office. However, Trump had stated in October that Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear sites. In contrast, the Biden-Harris administration vocally opposed Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites or oil fields, and Israel’s attack plans were leaked to Iran through someone in the Biden-Harris administration’s Defense department.
Striving to End Wars in Lebanon and Gaza
According to Pipko, President-elect Trump wants Israel to end the wars in Gaza and Lebanon quickly, decisively, and with victory. Pipko contrasted this approach with the Biden-Harris administration’s “back and forth” policy, and that the Biden-Harris administration was pressuring how Israel conducts war based on election considerations. The Biden-Harris administration was guilty of “armchair quarterbacking” Israel’s wars in an unproductive way, including by leaking Israel’s plans to strike Lebanon, opposing the Rafah invasion, and opposing the killing of several arch-terrorists.
Trump will also likely prioritize the release of the hostages; Trump recently threatened Hamas, stating that if they did not free its hostages before inauguration day, it will pay “a very big price.” In contrast, the Biden-Harris administration has been spinning its wheels in endless failed diplomacy with Qatar, having not produced a hostage deal with Hamas since November 2023.
Pursuing a Conditional Peace with Palestinians
President-elect Donald Trump will likely re-visit his 2020 peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians, according to Brian Hook. Regarding the 2020 plan, Hook stated that “much of that work is still relevant today.”
On the issue of a Palestinian state, expect that the Trump administration won’t pursue a Palestinian state unconditionally for its own sake, as the Biden-Harris administration has. Hook conceded that Trump’s 2020 plan, which was endorsed by Israel and U.S.’ allies in the Gulf, “had a path to a two-state solution.” But Hook also recognized that Israelis are not focused on a Palestinian state now, and are instead focused on protecting themselves from terrorism in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Additionally, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas outright rejected the 2020 plan, and the plan also required the PA to provide security guarantees for Israel, recognize Israel, and allow Israeli citizens to remain in Judea and Samaria, all of which the PA did not agree to. If the new Trump administration seeks to revive this plan, it will likely revive these conditions for a Palestinian state as well. The PA will then in turn likely reject it a second time, proving again that the PA is not a partner for peace.
Expanding the Abraham Accords
President-elect Trump is also poised to expand the Abraham Accords. Trump brokered normalization deals between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. Reportedly, the previous Trump administration was on the verge of expanding the Abraham Accords to Indonesia and Mauritania, but were prevented from doing so once the administration’s term expired. During the past Trump administration, Saudi Arabia had been trying to get Pakistan to join the Abraham Accords as well.
In contrast, the Biden-Harris administration failed to add any countries to the Abraham Accords. Most notably is the administration’s failure to clinch an Israel-Saudi Arabia deal after chilling US relations with Saudi Arabiaand insisting on a Palestinian state as an integral part of any deal. The Biden-Harris administration seems content with now pursuing a bilateral US-Saudi deal that ices out Israel, which would completely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords.
Jared Kushner has had multiple discussions with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the issue of US-Israel-Saudi relations since President-elect Trump left office. So given past efforts, the new Trump administration could clinch Abraham Accords deals with Indonesia, Mauritania, Oman, and/or the big prize, Saudi Arabia.
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