{"id":280179,"date":"2026-02-08T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:38:09","slug":"who-will-care-for-gazas-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280179\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will care for Gaza\u2019s children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a conference room overlooking the Mediterranean. On the table: a $25 billion plan to rebuild Gaza. The blueprint: 200 education centers and 180 religious facilities. Around that table sit representatives of Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, and the UAE, tasked with ensuring Hamas never returns to power. One problem: an invisible partner is already seated at that table.<\/p>\n

Hamas is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Article 2 of the 1988 charter: \u201cThe Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.\u201d It has never been revoked. <\/p>\n

The Brotherhood spawned more than Hamas. Bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and al-Baghdadi all emerged from its ideological incubator. For decades, Brotherhood clerics issued fatwas obligating every Muslim to armed jihad against Israel.<\/p>\n

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1 View gallery <\/p>\n

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Gazan civilians leave Jabaliya last year<\/p>\n

FDD identifies Qatar as the \u201cleading supporter and exporter of Brotherhood ideology.\u201d Qatar has hosted the Brotherhood\u2019s global leadership for sixty years. In 1961, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Brotherhood\u2019s spiritual leader, arrived in Doha. Qatar funded him, granted him citizenship, and gave him an Al Jazeera platform reaching 60 million viewers. Qatar transferred $8 billion to the Brotherhood\u2019s Egyptian government, and billions more to Hamas, whose leaders live in Doha five-star hotels.<\/p>\n

Qatar does more than fund the Brotherhood. It exports its ideology. In 1981, $21 million from Qatar\u2019s emir and Qaradawi built ISNA\u2019s headquarters. ISNA is now the largest Muslim organization in North America, named an unindicted co-conspirator in Hamas financing case. <\/p>\n

But Qatar understood that shaping minds requires reaching \u05dd\u05d5\u05d0 to the younger generation. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera, the Brotherhood\u2019s megaphone1, set up AJ+ in Washington to reach young Americans on social media; the Justice Department ordered them to register as foreign agents in 2020, but as of 2024, they have yet to comply.1<\/p>\n

Qatar became the largest foreign donor to American universities, with $6.6 billion in contributions. ISGAP studies found a direct correlation between funding from countries like Qatar and the rise of campus antisemitism, with universities receiving Middle Eastern money experiencing 300% more antisemitic incidents. <\/p>\n

Some 51% of Americans aged 18-24 say the Hamas-led October 7 massacre \u201ccan be justified.\u201d Among Americans over 65, only 9% believe this.<\/p>\n

FDD identifies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s AKP party as \u201cthe Turkish arm of the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d assisting its establishment of schools and media channels throughout Turkey. After Egypt\u2019s 2013 coup, Erdogan granted asylum to 1,500 Brotherhood members. <\/p>\n

In 2017, when Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain severed ties with Qatar over its Brotherhood links, Turkey sided with Qatar. On October 25, 2023, Erdogan said \u201cHamas is not a terrorist organization. It is a group of mujahideen defending their land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egypt outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. But outlawing an organization does not win hearts and minds. A Washington Institute poll found 75% of Egyptians view Hamas positively, and 94% believe Hamas did not kill civilians on October 7.<\/p>\n

This exposes the core problem. In 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stood before Al-Azhar\u2019s scholars and demanded a \u2018religious revolution.\u2019 Al-Azhar, one of the earliest Jami'(mosque\/ university) complexes in the Muslim world, refused. \u2018You\u2019ve exhausted me, honorable Imam,\u2019 Sisi told Al-Azhar\u2019s Grand Imam. On October 18, 2023, Al-Azhar issued a fatwa declaring that \u2018Zionist civilians on occupied land are not worthy of the description of civilians.\u2019<\/p>\n

Egypt\u2019s government fights the Brotherhood. Egypt\u2019s religious establishment supports Hamas. Even if it calls it \u2018saluting with absolute pride the resistance efforts of the Palestinian people.\u2019<\/p>\n

In 2014, the UAE designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Then they built counter-extremism infrastructure. Hedayah trains religious leaders in theological engagement, with over 1,500 imams and 600 female religious leaders promoting moderate Islam. The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi is a mosque, church and synagogue, side by side. Sawab, a UAE-U.S. partnership, counters extremist content online with one billion impressions, 60% of followers aged 13-34. IMPACT-se examined 220 UAE textbooks: no antisemitism, and found no incitement and that UNESCO standards were met. The Ministry of Tolerance promotes coexistence since 2016.<\/p>\n

Return to that conference room. Israeli media reported the UAE was in talks to take over Gaza\u2019s civilian administration. A day later, Abu Dhabi graciously announced: \u201cGaza\u2019s governance is the responsibility of the Palestinian people.\u201d Qatar and Turkey showed no restraint. Sheikha Moza and Erdogan\u2019s wife have declared themselves defenders of Palestinian education.<\/p>\n

Qatari textbooks teach children that \u201ctreachery and treason are among the traits of the Jews.\u201d Turkish textbooks call Jews \u201cinfidels.\u201d In September 2024, Turkey\u2019s school year opened with \u2018From Gallipoli to Gaza.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now imagine them running those 200 education centers. The International Union of Muslim Scholars, who issued the fatwa obligating armed jihad, gets 180 religious centers.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s children have been indoctrinated since kindergarten. UNRWA textbooks glorify martyrdom and jihad. Qatar and Turkey will not undo that indoctrination. They will deepen it.<\/p>\n

Gaza’s children deserve a new future. They will not find it at a table where the Brotherhood and its supporters are already seated.<\/p>\n

Aviram Bellaishe is vice president at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine a conference room overlooking the Mediterranean. On the table: a $25 billion plan to rebuild Gaza. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-280179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}