Wordy end of a vociferous parley in Qatar

THE extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit held in Doha to counter Israel's bombing of a government residential complex in the Leqtaifiya District of Qatar, where negotiations over a US initiated ceasefire proposal were in progress with representatives from Hamas, ended as usual in chest-thumping threats, condemnations and declarations against Israel, but without any concrete agenda of action to stop the genocide and expulsion of Palestinians from their homes before annexing Gaza and the West Bank to create Eretz Israel.

- By Dr. Ameer Ali

"Every people in the world lives in a place. For Palestinians the place lives in them" (Danny Rubinstein-an Israeli writer)

"We were herders of animals until we received the revelation, and then we became herders of other societies. We gave up the revelation and had become herds of other societies" (Allama Iqbal)

Before preparing their responses to the bombing it seems that the delegates who attended the extraordinary summit never bothered to raise or discuss a very critical question, i.e., how did Israel manage to penetrate Qatari airspace given the fact that skies over Doha are under 24 hours surveillance by the US Air Base in Al-Ubaid, the largest military installation in the Middle East. It is the Head Quarter for US Central Command USCENTCOM, overseeing US military operations in the Middle East. The Integrated Air Missile Defence (IAMD) system provides aircover for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE along with Jordan. IAMD is integrated into the US-Command-and-Control network operated by USCENTCOM from US base in Qatar.

Diplomatic cover was American

And most importantly did Artificial Intelligence (AI) that rules US defence system also fail to detect those bomb carriers? It is unbelievable and it all points out that someone from Washington must have given the green signal for the attack. (For an extended discussion of this question, see Jamal Kanj, "The Doha Assassination, Emergency Summit, and Trump's Double-Cross" in Counterpunch, September 15, 2025).