{"id":625462,"date":"2026-09-24T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625462\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:06:13","slug":"naftali-bennett-urges-benjamin-netanyahu-to-use-un-speech-to-declare-qatar-as-enemy-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/625462\/","title":{"rendered":"Naftali Bennett urges Benjamin Netanyahu to use UN speech to declare Qatar as enemy state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> to use his upcoming address to the United Nations General Assembly to declare Qatar an enemy state, in a post on X\/Twitter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bennet accused Doha of supporting Hamas and contributing to the conditions that led to the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

He said Netanyahu\u2019s UN address would provide an opportunity to highlight what he described as Qatar\u2019s role in supporting Hamas and its military wing.<\/p>\n

\u201cQatar is an enemy – and it\u2019s time the world recognizes this and holds it accountable,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

Bennett<\/a> accused Qatar of funding Hamas, celebrating the October 7 attack, hosting Hamas leaders and supporting what he described as radical Islamist terrorism. He also accused Qatar<\/a> of spreading antisemitic propaganda internationally, including on US university campuses.<\/p>\n

Bennett said he would send the UN secretary-general and the ambassadors of the members of the UN Security Council a document he called the \u201cQatar File,\u201d which he described as a comprehensive record of evidence of Qatar\u2019s alleged involvement in the October 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

The former prime minister also called on Netanyahu to remove Qatar from any role in Gaza, arguing that “Qatar funds radical Islamist terror and actively works to destroy the State of Israel.”<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu and I are political opponents, but when Israel\u2019s security is on the line, Israelis rise above politics and unite,\u201d Bennett wrote.<\/p>\n

Bennett said that declaring Qatar an enemy state would receive support across Israel\u2019s political spectrum and described the move as a step toward preventing another massacre.<\/p>\n

He concluded by saying that Israel should \u201cdeclare Qatar an enemy state, drive them out of Gaza<\/a>, and defeat Hamas,\u201d and accused Netanyahu of undermining Israel\u2019s national security by not defining Qatar as an enemy.<\/p>\n

“Every day Netanyahu refuses to define Qatar as an enemy – and allows them to rule Gaza – is another day that Hamas is rearming and preparing for the next massacre,” Bennet added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Naftali Bennett called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use his upcoming address to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,953,43,1823,9738,4497],"class_list":["post-625462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-qatar-and-israel","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625462","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=625462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}