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Qatar treads a thin line by hosting Israeli visit
(AP)

25 October 2006

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - News that Qatar may become the first Gulf state to host an Israeli Cabinet minister in 10 years came as no surprise to observers of the tiny country that takes big, bold steps on the international stage.
Israeli officials said Wednesday that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni intends to attend a UN conference in the Qatari capital Doha next week.
The official Qatar News Agency said Wednesday the government had not confirmed Livni’s attendance, which Israeli officials described as tentative.
Middle East analysts said Qatar’s dalliance with Israel puts it squarely in opposition to public opinion and government policy across the Gulf, where Israel is vilified for its military offensives in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Israel’s 34-day campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon this summer left more than a thousand people dead, mainly civilians.
People here blame the Israelis for 95 or 99 percent of these problems,’ said Muhammad Al Musfir, a political scientist at Qatar University. No government will dare to have an open discussion with the Israelis without concessions.’
Livni’s visit would be the most high-profile Israeli visit to the Gulf since then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres traveled to Doha in 1996. While Israel has a trade mission in Qatar and has had similar low-level ties with Oman, it has no official relations with any of the other Gulf states, which have long ostracized the Jewish state.
A political science professor at Kuwait University, Abdullah Sahar, said Qatar had invited the Israeli foreign minister for its own strategic reasons.
Qataris feel they are under the tent of Saudi Arabia and they are trying to get out of it,’ Sahar said. However, distinguishing themselves by having ties with Israel in this tense situation is for most people akin to a type of political prostitution.’
Last year Qatar made waves in the Arab world when its foreign minister met his Israeli counterpart, Silvan Shalom, on the margin of a UN General Assembly meeting in New York. At a press conference afterward, Qatari Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani urged Arab countries to make gestures toward Israel after its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Al Musfir played down the significance of Qatar’s invitation to Livni, saying it would have been handled by the United Nations and extended to all 192 member-states.

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