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Source: https://jcpa.org/trumps-gaza-plan-vs-qatars-power/
Trump's Gaza Plan vs. Qatar's Power
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Hussein Aboubakr Mansour - If Trump genuinely expects Arab leaders to help solve the Gaza crisis, he must also pressure Qatar to rein in its powerful propaganda networks and their ongoing alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood. These networks, notably Al-Jazeera, have long used the Gaza crisis as a cudgel to hammer other Arab regimes, portraying them as complicit in Israel's "siege" or indifferent to Palestinian suffering. No monarch or president wants to face the wave of condemnation that might stem from a 24/7 news cycle painting them as complicit in the final displacement of Palestinians. If Washington fails to push Doha on the media front, any arrangement for Gaza could collapse under a barrage of Qatari-sponsored propaganda since Qatar effectively controls the narrative. Unless Doha's stranglehold on media coverage and its unholy alliance with Islamist factions is neutralized, the administration's bold ambitions are almost certain to be short-lived. The writer is an Egyptian-American author.