vent of the Week (Friday – September 12, 2025): The Aggression on Qatar… Al Khalifa in the Whirlwind of Treachery
On September 9, 2025, the Zionist enemy launched a treacherous airstrike on the heart of the Qatari capital, Doha, in a failed attempt to assassinate leaders of the Political Bureau of Hamas. The aggression came just hours after the normalization regimes – including the Khalifi entity in Bahrain – aligned themselves with the Zionist entity by condemning the heroic operation carried out by Palestinian resistance fighters in occupied Jerusalem against the Zionist occupiers.
The authorities in Bahrain sufficed with issuing a brief statement through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in solidarity with the State of Qatar. The statement did not exceed four lines and avoided using strong terms to describe the Zionist aggression, referring to it merely as an “Israeli attack.” The statement also hastened to call for “calm and de-escalation.” In another statement, the ministry merely offered condolences for the death of a member of the Qatari guard, without mentioning the other martyrs of the aggression. By contrast, the Al Khalifa Foreign Ministry described the heroic Jerusalem operation as a “terrorist act” and condemned it, calling instead for “security, stability, and prosperity for both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples.” This came within a series of similar stances in which Al Khalifa reaffirmed their commitment to joining the American-Zionist alliance, despite the ongoing genocide and starvation in Gaza—the latest of which was the reception of a new Zionist ambassador in Manama, in defiance of popular anger and citizen demonstrations rejecting normalization and the Zionist embassy’s presence on Bahraini soil.
Observers say that the Zionist aggression on Doha represents a watershed moment in the Zionists’ aggressive policy, directly backed by the Americans—particularly in exposing the expansionist project of the hegemonic powers. Analysts stressed that American protection agreements, represented in Gulf military bases and normalization accords, did not prevent the enemy from carrying out any aggression or from executing Netanyahu’s criminal schemes to redraw the region’s map. Nevertheless, the policies of the Gulf regimes—especially in Bahrain—remained unchanged despite the aggression on Doha. This, according to observers, marks the end of sovereignty in the era of Zionist-American arrogance, leaving the Gulf regimes in the whirlwind of treachery until the very end.
