Israeli think tanks working to harm Qatar's image
Amid reports from various quarters that powerful lobbies are making concerted efforts to malign Qatar’s international image, a solid proof of the nefarious act has appeared on public domain.
An Israel think tank has called for actively engaging — overtly and covertly — to malign Qatar’s image and target the country’s preparations to host the World Cup 2022.
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), associated with Tel Aviv University, in its latest issue of INSS Insight publication urged Israel’s ‘partner forces’ to put pressure on Qatar and ‘stop the country firmly’.
Action must be taken against Qatar out in the open and behind the scenes to make sure the country is deterred, it said.
Targeting Qatar’s preparations for the World Cup 2022, the report asked its partners to seek support of human rights activists or groups to make sure Qatar is not hosting the championship.
It said with the support of these human rights organisations, legal actions must be taken against Qatar and the country should be sued in every eligible way to erode its international image, Al Sharq reported.
“In addition, an international campaign can be launched to prohibit Qatar from hosting the 2022 World Cup. This would be a serious blow to the country’s prestige, as Qatar views hosting the championship as an important achievement and global recognition of its status… there is no reason not to try to revoke Qatar’s right to host the event…”, the report said.
“Qatar should be vilified from every possible podium… If Qatar is painted into a corner, it will be forced to go on the defensive…Covertly, one can think of a range of creative actions that would make it clear to Qatar that its ‘support’ for destabilising elements in the region is liable to disrupt its financial stability and cost it enough to interfere with its decadent complacency”.
The report, which is critical of Qatar’s US diplomatic relationship, notes: “Qatar’s economic capabilities and geostrategic location between Iran and Saudi Arabia make it difficult for powers such as the US, which has significant economic and security interests in Qatar, to ignore it…"
"In modern history, it is difficult to find a similar instance of a country so small and young that has carried out so ambitious a foreign policy… In a decidedly imbalanced dynamic, Qatar tries to leverage tremendous economic power in an irresponsible manner…”
Beyond the US, there are additional methods of putting pressure on Qatar and rein in the country.
Regional players and other partners in the international community can work creatively to make sure that Qatar is sufficiently deterred…, the report continued.
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This report is just more regurgitated nonsense to get peoples' heckles up over Israel. Only idiots would fool for it.
it is what they always do in media, they distort the truth and make it like a lie. the gaza massacre is infront of us still media is projecting as Gazan want themselves to be killed and all bombs are due to hamas human shield. however, the trouble is that we don't have strong media or means to project their lies, we need more scholars and media channels like al Jazeera to show the truth.
I think Qatar deserves to host the event and deserves more; just because human rights are saved here and the kidding countries whose crying the success of Qatar, are playing on minor snags which is existing in every single country or community. South Africa, Brasil or Russia doesn't have more confortability than Qatar but they have no jealous countries and ennemies like Qatar has. Hope everything goes right to bring more succes to a serious , gentle and lovely country.
Fubar, What do they say about the home countries of the labourers , how'r their brothers there ? .. ....................... ........... Wed, 20.08.2014, 11.00 hrs
I am continuously getting suspicious about these so called human activists organizations who are always quite on how Dubai or Riyadh or Abu Dhabi handles its labors but for Qatar they are always open mouth Dinosaurs :( I have strong belief that even lot many Middle Eastern countries too not happy with Qatar progress alongwith these western countries.What Qatar is doing is a great job of focusing on development and education which others have failed so far either it is Syria or Egypt or Libiya or Iraq.So they cant compare or dominate Qatar and now they are crying like jealous kid.
Various countries, newspapers and labor rights organizations are saying bad things about worker welfare in Qatar. Is it because A) It's a Zionist conspiracy or B) Because there is a problem with worker welfare in Qatar. Submit your answers below.