Washington is merely pretending it is not happy about the Jewish state’s attack in the key Gulf nation, Dan Cohen has told RT
The US and Israel are putting on a show to suggest Washington had nothing to do with the Jewish state’s strike in Qatar targeting senior Hamas officials, Dan Cohen, an investigative journalist and founder of Uncaptured Media, has told RT.
Israel struck in Doha on September 9, targeting senior Hamas figures in a residential area; six people were killed, including a Qatari security officer, although the intended leaders reportedly survived the attack.
Both US and Israeli officials claimed that Washington did not approve and had no prior knowledge of the attack, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that US President Donald Trump was furious with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In an interview with RT aired on Thursday, Cohen opined that the two leaders are engaged in a game of smoke and mirrors to deceive the global community. “I think a lot of that is basically misdirection to make it appear as if there is distance between the Trump administration and the Israeli government,” he said.
The journalist added that despite the recent strike on Qatar, the latter would not respond and continue to serve as a transit point for sending US arms to Israel.
“I think it humiliates the Qataris… The American weapons are being delivered to Israel via Qatar. That shows that Qatar is not a sovereign nation. It’s not a sovereign state. It’s a glorified US military base,” he said, adding that Doha does not mind the arrangement because “the Qatari royal family benefits greatly” from it.
He further alleged that the Israeli leadership, dominated by far-right figures, is pursuing ethnic cleansing in Gaza. According to Cohen, “there is a minority… in particular, the religious Zionist movement… which wants to convert Israel into a full-on fascist theocracy.”
On Tuesday, a United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel “has committed genocide” in Gaza and urged the global community to punish those responsible. Israel rejected the findings as false and politically motivated. In August, Trump also disagreed that Israel was carrying out a genocide in the enclave.
