Netanyahu RIPS Qatar For Advising Hamas To Reject Peace Terms — Stop Playing Both Sides

Can you really call someone an ‘impartial’ mediator when you’re actively telling one side to hold out for better terms?

Israel’s President Netanyahu is getting tired of Qatar getting credit for playing the good guy role in this conflict at the same time that they’re telling Hamas to reject an offer given by the Egyptians.

‘Stop playing both sides’: Netanyahu condemns Qatar for urging Hamas to reject an Egyptian ceasefire proposal and wait for better terms pic.twitter.com/MSabtCr7jM

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Times of Israel gives more detail:

“We are pressing Hamas to [release the hostages] with the support of our friends,” Netanyahu said in a PMO readout from his meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.

“We are asking others to put pressure not only on Hamas but also on Qatar, which has decisive influence over Hamas — an influence that is not always exercised but could be,” he added.

“In fact, we had a hostage deal that was about to materialize, one that would have freed almost half of the hostages, with Egypt’s help, but it did not happen. Qatari cooperation… is what could have brought this deal to fruition,” the premier claimed.

“That’s what we expect to see: the support of our friends and pressure from those who are in a position to influence Hamas.” — Times Of Israel

Here’s just a little bit more about what he said to call them out:

That was after the Israeli prime minister’s office shared Netanyahu’s statement, saying: “After the October 7 atrocities, Prime Minister Netanyahu defined the War of Redemption as a war between civilization and barbarism.

“The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism. Israel will win this just war with just means,” it said.– MEM

Or course, Qatar took umbrage to Netanyahu’s use of civilization and barbarism.

But when ‘leaders’ of a movement that skimmed billions in aid money sent to help the poor, while living is safety like kings in some Qatari penthouse somewhere?

If that kind of grift at the expense of your own people’s suffering (and anyone allied with it) isn’t ‘barbaric’ (let alone genocidal attacks like the one targeting the Nova Festival) it’s hard to imagine where that line would need to be drawn.