From the linked article:
If, instead of appeasing Iran and bullying Israel, the Biden administration had told Qatar on Oct. 8 that unless the hostages were released within 24 hours, Washington would sever all economic, diplomatic and security relations with Doha—and meant that—it’s likely the hostages would have been freed and the horrors of the past year averted.
Qatar is a profound threat to the free world.
Yet the West refuses to treat Qatar as a godfather of terrorism and an enemy of civilization. During the past year, the United States has used it instead as an interlocutor with Hamas, treating the emirate as an honest broker in the negotiations to release the hostages.
These negotiations were never going to succeed. They were used instead to cripple Israel’s ability to inflict a speedy military defeat of Hamas. The only way the hostages were ever going to be released was through pressure on Hamas.
Yet Qatar had no intention of exerting that pressure, and none was exerted on Qatar, in turn, to do so. So the emirate played America for suckers, while more Israeli soldiers were killed or injured, and the hostages were left to their appalling fate.
There were nauseating scenes in London this week where the red carpet was rolled out for the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tammi bin Hamid al Thani and his wife. Britain put on a grand royal reception for the Qatari ruler, including a horseback procession down The Mall, a visit to Parliament and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.
At the glittering banquet, King Charles, who had earlier invested the emir with an ancient British honor as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, made a speech that would have been written for him by the Foreign Office. He described the United Kingdom as the emir’s “second home".
The Gulf state has made a point of making itself invaluable to the West it wants to destroy. It has poured billions of dollars into funding professors and programs at American universities and curricula at publicly funded schools, helping turn them into crucibles of antisemitism and Islamic extremism.The British fawning over the emir reflects the fact that, over the past decade and a half, Qatar has established a vast assets empire in Britain.
Its investments in the United Kingdom include stakes in British Airways, Heathrow Airport and three English premier league football clubs. It also owns more than 4,000 properties such as the iconic Savoy Hotel, the Shard skyscraper in London and the Harrods department store.
As Trump threatens to unleash the punishments of hell against the enemies of Israel and civilization, the British government is selling what remains of its soul to the devil.