Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued one of his most uncompromising warnings yet on Wednesday, declaring that any nation sheltering Hamas leaders — Qatar included — risks direct Israeli retaliation if it fails to act.
Speaking on the eve of the September 11th anniversary, Netanyahu invoked America’s war on terror as a model for Israel’s campaign against Hamas, framing the group’s October 7, 2023, assault as Israel’s own 9/11 moment.
“Tomorrow is September 11th. We remember September 11th,” Netanyahu said in a televised address. “On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery on American soil since the founding of the United States. We also have a September 11th. We remember October 7th. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
Netanyahu compared Israel’s strike this week on a Hamas compound in Doha to America’s post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaida and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. “Yesterday, we acted along those lines,” he said. “We went after the terrorist masterminds who committed the October 7th massacre. And we did so in Qatar which gives safe haven, it harbors terrorists, it finances Hamas.”
Netanyahu left little ambiguity about his message to Qatar and other nations hosting Hamas officials.
“I say to Qatar and all nations who harbor terrorists, you either expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will,” Netanyahu warned.
The remarks come a day after Israel’s airstrike on a villa in Doha’s Katara district, a rare extension of the Gaza war into the territory of a close U.S. ally. Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political bureau since 2012 with Washington’s tacit blessing, positioning itself as a mediator in past ceasefire talks and hostage negotiations.
Qatar’s government has condemned the Israeli strike as a violation of its sovereignty and international law. But Netanyahu dismissed the backlash, blasting world leaders who criticized Israel’s action. “Now, the various countries of the world condemn Israel. They should be ashamed of themselves,” he said. “What did they do after America took out Osama bin Laden? Did they say, ‘Oh, what a terrible thing was done to Afghanistan or to Pakistan?’ No, they applauded. They should applaud Israel for standing up to the same principles.”
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America launched a 20 year war against Afghanistan bc it was harboring terrorists
they are in turkey, let me see Bibi the big talker attack a NATO country. the Zionists with their non Torah mehalech dont know how to stop, they are not protecting the Yidden
Netanyahu’s claim that Israel going after Hamas leaders in Qatar is the same idea as America’s post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaida does not come across as credible. Because if this was the case why did Israel wait for close to 2 years till they finally decided to target them in Qatar. In fact they only killed Ismail Haniyeh when he went on a visit to Tehran and this was obviously because they felt they couldn’t go after him in Qatar, where he was living at the time. Instead the fact that they wouldn’t go after Hamas leaders in Qatar till now is a sign of desperation, that after vowing to destroy Hamas right after Oct. 7 almost 2 years later they still cannot figure out how to achieve that goal.