Israeli strike in Qatar shakes decades-long U.S. security pact with Gulf states

Beirut – The Gulf Gulf nations have paid their defenses first of all for years: they paid with tens of billions of petrodols and agreements that allowed them to end the Middle East with some of the largest US military facilities.

Thought was that being users of US weapons and having a US military presence was a virtual guarantee if enemies called.

This thought rose on Tuesday, when the undisputed United States sent 10 missiles in the political office compound of Hamas in the Qatari capital Doha, the upper ally of the United States.

While discussing President Trump’s ceasefire proposal, the attack aimed at the senior negotiation team of the Palestinian group killed five HAMAS members and Qatar security guards. Hamas rejected the murder of his senior leadership.

However, whether the targeting is successful, the Gulf leaders who consider the effectiveness of the US for decades of security arrangements with the United States

Hussein Ibish, a senior scholar of the Arabian Gulf States Institute, said, “If you think of close ties and if you provide great military support protection for Washington, it seems to be ün Think again ‘.

“They are all vulnerable to the attack by larger and stronger neighbors, and they expect a commitment that helps the United States to come with a military protection. He does not clearly see it.”

Qatar officials were apoplexic, cowardly after the strike, and a violation of the sovereignty of the country.

In particular, the Galling-Hamas officials, which hosts the largest American military installation in the region, Al Udeid Airbase, allows Galling-Hamas officials to live clearly in Washington’s request, as during Washington’s request to end the war in Afghanistan, as in Washington’s request.

“Everything about this meeting [with Hamas] It is well known for Israelis and Americans. It’s not something we’ve hidden, “said Katari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in an interview with CNN on Wednesday.

“I have no word to express how angry we are from such an action [by Israel]. This is the state terror ”.

Other Gulf leaders – even those who host the remaining reservations about Qatar and regional policies – presented a united façade on behalf of Qatar.

The Saudi Arabian strike described the strike as a “ruthless aggression ve and said that the kingdom would be“ unlimited with Qatar ”. Bahrain said “full solidarity”.

Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, went to Doha the next day to meet Qatar Emir-As a part of the Abraham’s agreements of BAE, how carefully the Trump-mediated agreements with Israel in 2020, developed its relations with Israel.

Yasmine Farouk, the International Crisis Group Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Project Director, said, “The Gulf States see an attack on a member as an attack on everyone,” he said.

Farouk added that Washington’s confidence in the United States has already decreased in recent years, when Washington could not defend or respond by the Houthi rebels of the UAE in 2022 by the Houthi rebels of Yemen in 2022. Qatar, who suffered from an Iranian missile attack on Al Udeid in June, now has the suspicious honor of becoming a deputy war area for both sides of the region’s larger US-Iran conflict.

The strike of this week also represents a decline for the anti -Iranian coalition that the US is working to beat with Arab allies and Israel. However, the emotion between many people in the Gulf is the destabilization of Israel like Iran, an actor.

“Israel misinterpreted the willingness of normalizing relations as an acceptance of the sovereignty of the Gulf countries in the region,” Farouq said.

“The Gulf states do not want to live in a region dominated by Israel or Iran,” he added. “Instead of rejecting a particular country, they reject such behaviors.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the emergency motive of the strike was responsible for the killing of six Israelis by Palestinian armed men in Jerusalem at the beginning of this week. He insisted that the operation was completely planned and carried out by Israel.

At the same time, more than 1,000 miles between Israel and Qatar flew over more than one Arab countries of Israeli fighter planes, almost all of them can be detected by US bases. (The US has 19 bases in the region.

Trump said that he had learned the attack shortly before he started and instructed his administration to inform the members of his administration to “immediately”. However, Al Thani said that the call from the United States came to Doha 10 minutes after throwing its missiles to Doha.

In May, when Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, they conquered him with heavy glorious events on the magnificence and situation, and promised trillions of dollars for investments in the United States, but Trump reportedly reduced less than the strike on Tuesday, but a little more to convict his actions. (Also in May, Qatar donated a luxurious Boeing 747 aircraft to use Trump as Air Force One.)

Abdulaziz Al-Anji, the founder of the Kuwait-based thinking tank Discovery Research, said that all threats of all threats were more equal than others.

“The US security aid is effective against Iran or allied armed groups, but it does not extend to Israel, ve and added that historical alliances and historical alliances do not have the same weight for Trump in the past.

Bader Al-Saif, an assistant associate professor at the University of Kuwait, said that the issue was very little specificity about what a US security umbrella really requires.

“America’s No.1 ally is now hitting another American partner, and the only thing they get from Trump is’ feeling bad. It is not in favor of America, Al Al-Saif said.

He added that the Gulf nations forced for more official and well -defined defense agreements, especially Saudi Arabia, but that the relationship with the United States should reflect the latest changes. “You are here as a security guarantor,” he said from the United States.