{"id":286074,"date":"2026-02-11T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:21:07","slug":"qatari-opposition-figure-slams-dohas-role-in-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286074\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatari opposition figure slams Doha\u2019s role in negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cQatar<\/a> is not a peaceful mediator, Qatar is a problem maker,\u201d the president of Qatar\u2019s National Democratic Party, Khalid al-Hail, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, adding that Doha has \u201ccreated, supported, [and] helped the terrorist organizations\u201d it now purports to arbitrate.<\/p>\n

Hail, who currently resides in the United Kingdom, having been exiled from the Gulf state<\/a> in 2015, warned that Qatar was a \u201cthreat\u201d to Israel, even while its vast media empire \u201cpushes the narrative of a good mediator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking specifically about Ali al-Thawadi\u2019s role on the US-backed Board of Peace<\/a>, which has been tasked with overseeing the peacekeeping efforts in Gaza<\/a>, Hail said he couldn\u2019t understand how such a man could be trusted.<\/p>\n

Claiming Thwadi had \u201cproven that he has been dealing with hackers and criminals,\u201d Hail made it clear that he didn\u2019t think such a person was appropriate for the board, especially given The Sunday Times\u2019 2018 report that Thwadi was aware of the \u201cpoison\u201d spread against other countries who were then bidding to host the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know what he\u2019s been doing with Mohammed bin Hamad [al-Thani], the brother of Sheikh Tamim [bin Hamad al-Thani] \u2013 and all of the crimes they\u2019ve committed before \u2013 to be a peacemaker. It\u2019s a joke. It is not acceptable, and I don\u2019t think the Trump administration should accept such people to be part of the peace council.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Donald Trump and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani attend a world leaders\u2019 summit on ending the Gaza war, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, late last year. (credit: REUTERS\/Suzanne Plunkett\/Pool)<\/p>\n

Hail said that Qatar should not be playing the role of peace mediator in any part of the region \u201cbecause at the same time [that Qatar is] part of the Peace Council, they are pushing, sponsoring, and supporting Hamas on its own media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antisemitism spread also Doha’s guilt<\/p>\n

Beyond spreading Hamas propaganda, much of the antisemitism crisis spreading through the United States and Europe was part of Doha\u2019s influence campaign, he warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve seen a lot of antisemitism now in the world, and a lot of organizations that are actually pushing that narrative are being sponsored and supported by Qatar,\u201d Hail claimed.<\/p>\n

With the influence of the Qatar National Democratic Party, Hail claimed that Doha would join the Abraham Accords, a move that would be widely accepted and celebrated among the country\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n

Hail said that the warm welcome that Shimon Peres received during his two-day visit to Qatar in 1996, when he was Israel\u2019s prime minister, was proof that \u201cthe people of Qatar, the founder families, will have absolutely no problem in having a normal relationship with Israel.\u201d He added that he looked forward to Doha one day having its own Israeli embassy.<\/p>\n

Turning his attention to internal politics and shaming the \u201cone man show\u201d in Doha\u2019s leadership style, Hail criticized the curated narrative that there was no opposition to Thani\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n

The discretionary nature of Qatar\u2019s citizenship policies, which human rights organizations have repeatedly decried for its role in denying the rights of the Baha\u2019i people and other religious minorities, has meant that Qatar can import supporters, Hail said. He added that the original Qatari people \u201care one day going to have a revolution against the government of Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing the 2021 election, in which activists received life sentences \u2013 and the 2005 nationality law, which barred candidates from certain ethnic groups from running or voting \u2013 Hail said Qatar\u2019s control of the media allowed it to \u201cput to bed\u201d valid criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government of Qatar doesn\u2019t believe in its own people. They don\u2019t trust Qatari nationals,\u201d Hail noted, saying that this was why many ethnic and religious minorities, such as the Baha\u2019i, were barred from the military despite compulsory national service.<\/p>\n

Hail was arrested in 2014, after he flew back to Doha at the \u201cdirect request\u201d of the emir, for allegedly not following the regime\u2019s instructions, trying to change the regime in Qatar, and leaking recordings to the Saudis. He has claimed that he was held and tortured for 22 days before escaping to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lied to me,\u201d Hail recalled, adding that he had upset Thani by saying that 6,200 companies were going to go bankrupt in Qatar because of the allocation of projects in Doha.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that the Qatari leadership \u201conly put a few Qatari people around them, and the rest are all foreign nationals who have been paid to protect them. And if you trust your own people, you will let your own people protect you and be part of your military to help you. And that\u2019s what they fear for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hail reported, \u201cSo now the Qatar National Democratic Party is preparing a government in exile, and we will be putting a lot of pressure on the Government of Qatar, and we are very serious this time [about] actually not only reforming the regime, but changing the regime of Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cThani has a saying: \u2018Anyone open his mouth to criticize the Qatar regime, just bottle them.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s been saying. So he\u2019s trying to buy his influence and buy the silence of people. There are a lot of weak people, but there are a lot of good people as well. That\u2019s why the fight is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

After joking about the millions Thani spent to have his photo placed around the country in an effort to farm \u201cfalse love\u201d from the people, Hail said that \u201cThani has proven that he is a puppet and he cannot do anything to the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insisting that the West must begin sanctioning Doha to bring about the fall of the regime, Hail said that the emir \u201cput our country and our people at risk because they supported terrorist organizations like Hamas, like Muslim Brotherhood, like Taliban, like al-Qaeda, and they don\u2019t listen to our people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to show the world that all [of] Qatar is accepting what they are doing, which is wrong\u2026 People [must] understand and believe that the Qatari opposition has a strong presence in Qatar, and a lot of people are banned from traveling from Doha because they are part of the opposition in Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like I want my country to be sanctioned\u2026\u201d Hail continued, speaking on the necessity of such a step.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to [be in] control [of] the money of my people, and I would love my people to understand that someone should protect their wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe absolute monarchy system means they [Thani] could wake up one morning and say, \u2018Okay, give $500 million to Hamas,\u2019\u201d and no one would have the power to \u201cobject to such behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hail said he aspired to see the country as a \u201cconstitutional monarchy system run by the founder families of Qatar, not only the al-Thani regime, because we need to participate and to make people participate in the power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cQatar is not a peaceful mediator, Qatar is a problem maker,\u201d the president of Qatar\u2019s National Democratic Party,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,1809,50,128748,83420,51,42,1295,43,1823,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-286074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abraham-accords","tag-doha","tag-gaza","tag-gazan-board-of-peace","tag-gulf-states","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286074","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=286074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}