Qatar: Israeli Prime Minister's speech is an attempt to divert attention from violations in the occupied territories
Doha, 25 Sep (KUNA) -- The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected on Friday the accusations made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, alleging that Qatar is conducting a campaign to influence public opinion against Israel.
Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated in a post on the social media platform X: "We categorically reject Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation against the State of Qatar in his address to the General Assembly that it is conducting a campaign to influence public opinion against Israel."
He added: "This continuous escalatory rhetoric against Qatar is nothing but an attempt to divert attention from the violations committed by his government in the occupied Palestinian territories and their humanitarian repercussions."
Al-Ansari further stated: "Reducing the growing shift in global public opinion, particularly among youth and rising generations, to allegations of influence campaigns is a dismissal of the awareness of a generation that witnesses with its own eyes, and before the world, what is happening on the ground and forms its positions based on the facts it observes."
He noted: "If Netanyahu and other extremist Israeli politicians, who have come to address empty halls, want the world to view Israel differently, they must start by changing their policies, stopping their violations, respecting international law, and taking responsibility before the people who elected them, rather than seeking scapegoats to blame for the decline in Israel's image globally."
He concluded: "Attempts to hold Qatar or others responsible for a global shift in public opinion, driven by what people witness themselves, no longer convince anyone. This repeated attack on Qatar can only be understood in the context of an attempt to divert attention from political responsibility for policies and practices on the ground and to exploit this for domestic political calculations."
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