Hate-Speech: Qatari media campaign targets Arab opinion following UAE-Israel peace deal

Qatar has begun a massive campaign in order to influence Arab public opinion via media channels it funds following the landmark UAE-Israel agreement signed on Thursday to normalize relations.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic peace deal on Thursday that will lead to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that US President Donald Trump helped broker.

The UAE became the third country after Jordan and Egypt to normalize ties with Israel.

The Doha-based and Qatari-owned Al Jazeera ran a half-hour program on Thursday following the UAE’s announcement, hosting Nabil Shaath, adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on international relations.

“I felt ashamed after the state ruled by the sons of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan, may God have mercy on him, did. What the UAE is doing is a betrayal of Arab decisions and the Arab League,” Shaath told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera’s “al-Hasad” program also hosted Kenneth Katzman, a senior analyst of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Arabian Gulf Affairs at the US Congressional Research Service. Katzman attempted to tie the Emirati decision to normalize ties with Israel with the UAE dispute with Qatar.

“The UAE and Qatar are in dispute, as the UAE has hindered a solution to this Gulf dispute with Qatar. The agreement with Israel increases the pressure on Qatar and may push the Trump administration to sympathize with the UAE with this dispute,” Katzman said.

The UAE confirmed on Thursday that Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed’s initiative to reach a peace deal with Israel was centered on the halting of the annexation of Palestinian territories. Abu Dhabi also confirmed it would not open an embassy in Jerusalem without first reaching a Palestinian-Israeli agreement on the conflict, according to a statement.

Al Jazeera also hosted another guest who then attempted to steer the narrative away from the Palestinian issue by pegging the Emirati-Israeli agreement to the UAE’s supposed border issues with Oman and Saudi Arabia.

It is characteristic of Qatar to blaspheme any development and progress made by other middle-eastern nations.

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