The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 7, February 21, 2025
2. A MEMRI report focused on a similar case in the U.S.: Qatar hired a former CIA official to spy on anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Tom Cotton, and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, as well as former Rep. Ed Royce – see MEMRI Daily Brief No. 565, Qatari Ambassador To U.S. Was Allegedly Involved In Bribing A French Minister, Spying On U.S. Lawmakers, January 22, 2024.
3. See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 720, Qatar Seeks To Sweep Away Trump's Gaza Plan With So-Called Peace Plan, by Yigal Carmon, February 19, 2025.
4. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 11844, Another Qatari Regime Scandal In France: Qatari Official Investigated By French Authorities; Earlier, In 2016, Qatari Ambassador Had Allegedly Bribed A French Minister, February 18, 2025.
5. See MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis No. 1810, The National Conference For Palestine – A Qatari Initiative For Integrating The Hamas Terror Organization Into The PLO, by S. Schneidmann, L. Alon, and H. Varulkar, February 13, 2025.
6. On February 16, 2025, Rabbi Pini Dunner of the Beverly Hills Synagogue in California led Jewish activists in a protest outside the Bel Air home of former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (HBJ), a member of the Qatari royal family, over his close ties to Hamas. For a video of the protests, see Rabbi Dunner's X post.[1]
*Yigal Carmon is President and Founder of MEMRI.
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