While pundits whine about Israel’s supposed grip on Washington, data shows Qatar has spent billions on lobbying, universities, media, and real estate — physically embedding itself in America’s capital
Israel isn’t sitting on vast oil reserves. People rail about AIPAC. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what Qatar has flooded America’s most prestigious universities with. And unlike Israel, Arabs have dark fantasies about hurting and destroying America and other Western countries. Not to mention Israel.
Too few are seeing this canoodling between Trump/Vance and Qatar for what it really is… truly dangerous, with devastating consequences for Israel and Jews. Thanks for the round up.
The numbers are very often fraudulent, as we have frequently seen of late. Trump has taken over DC. Qatar may have influence as others may have influence in DC as always but it’s a fabrication to think Qatar is running DC.
I agree with your point about Israeli money being treated as suspect while Muslim money is ignored. By some anyway. But the way I see it is it is not who the source is but rather what it buys. And that is by no means limited to foreign money. It includes all special interest money. Because special interest money is by definition biased. And it creates inevitable conflicts of interest among those who receive the money. Inevitable. Lastly, regarding the conflict in the Middle East I am a die hard proponent of Israel, for many, many cultural and ideological reasons. But if I am to epitomize the American standard of the respect for all (which I acknowledge has been all but abandoned in recent decades) I cannot in good faith excluded 40+ countries and billions of people worldwide because they are of a different faith than mine or my ally's. Nor can I support any sort of officially mandated SUPERIOR status for Israel even though I personally prefer Judaism to Islam. Peace in the Middle East is and ever will be a non-starter unless the needs of both sides are met. Needs, not demands. If Judaism and Islam are incompatible, and I suspect they are, peaceful co-existence in a single nation is not possible. So division is required. At least from surface appearances Israel has tried that. The Muslim yeah-but-they-did- not-stick-to-what-they-said- they-would defense bears no weight with me because it is disingenuous to not agree to anything for almost 80 years and blame the other side for a broken agreement. And I am weary to the bone of it. In fact to the point that it makes me clench my jaw go hear it. But it seems to me that the way to address that is to deal with the more moderate Muslim nations and demonstrate in baby steps if you will that agreement is possible. I think Qatar is one of those. We can't bitch and moan about Muslims and Muslim nations not being participants in modern society and remedy that by denying them the opportunity to participate.
See my webinar on the Arab lobby and report on Arab funding of universities in the Jewish Virtual Library.
Can you post a link? Thank you.
Beware the Satanic child of Muhammad
I hear you.
Not just DC but many universities too
I think he mentioned that a few times.
Israel isn’t sitting on vast oil reserves. People rail about AIPAC. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what Qatar has flooded America’s most prestigious universities with. And unlike Israel, Arabs have dark fantasies about hurting and destroying America and other Western countries. Not to mention Israel.
Mistake by trump and bibi
I did wonder where this narrative was coming from. One narrative after another to feed the world! Got to keep the anti-Israel propaganda going.
Too few are seeing this canoodling between Trump/Vance and Qatar for what it really is… truly dangerous, with devastating consequences for Israel and Jews. Thanks for the round up.
Thx for exposing this. 🙏
Settlement jihad
The numbers are very often fraudulent, as we have frequently seen of late. Trump has taken over DC. Qatar may have influence as others may have influence in DC as always but it’s a fabrication to think Qatar is running DC.
Sigh…Qataris are now on my list of A$$holes. They are evil.
All The Drones Scanning The USA
I agree with your point about Israeli money being treated as suspect while Muslim money is ignored. By some anyway. But the way I see it is it is not who the source is but rather what it buys. And that is by no means limited to foreign money. It includes all special interest money. Because special interest money is by definition biased. And it creates inevitable conflicts of interest among those who receive the money. Inevitable. Lastly, regarding the conflict in the Middle East I am a die hard proponent of Israel, for many, many cultural and ideological reasons. But if I am to epitomize the American standard of the respect for all (which I acknowledge has been all but abandoned in recent decades) I cannot in good faith excluded 40+ countries and billions of people worldwide because they are of a different faith than mine or my ally's. Nor can I support any sort of officially mandated SUPERIOR status for Israel even though I personally prefer Judaism to Islam. Peace in the Middle East is and ever will be a non-starter unless the needs of both sides are met. Needs, not demands. If Judaism and Islam are incompatible, and I suspect they are, peaceful co-existence in a single nation is not possible. So division is required. At least from surface appearances Israel has tried that. The Muslim yeah-but-they-did- not-stick-to-what-they-said- they-would defense bears no weight with me because it is disingenuous to not agree to anything for almost 80 years and blame the other side for a broken agreement. And I am weary to the bone of it. In fact to the point that it makes me clench my jaw go hear it. But it seems to me that the way to address that is to deal with the more moderate Muslim nations and demonstrate in baby steps if you will that agreement is possible. I think Qatar is one of those. We can't bitch and moan about Muslims and Muslim nations not being participants in modern society and remedy that by denying them the opportunity to participate.
The stupidity is overwhelming
A panacea ( or injury) every five minutes = USA.
They own NYSEG